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Copyright and Licensing Resources

• Agreement reached on new EU copyright laws on “orphan” works, Outlaw.com, June 7, 2012.
• American Bar Association Section of Intellectual Property Law
• American Intellectual Property Law Association
• American Library Association: Copyright
• American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP)
• Author’s Licensing and Collecting Society (U.K.)
• The Authors Registry
• Berkeley Center for Law and Technology
• Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard Law School
• Howard Besser’s Intellectual Property and New Technology Page
• Access: The Canadian Copyright Licensing Agency
• Broadcast Music Incorporated (BMI)
• Canadian Heritage Information Network: Intellectual Property
• Canadian Intellectual Property Office
• Center for Advanced Study and Research on Intellectual Property, Univ of Washington
• Documentary Filmmakers’ Statement of Best Practices in Fair Use, Center for Social Media
• Chilling Effects Clearinghouse
• Christian Copyright Licensing International
• Collection of National Copyright Laws
• Congressional Internet Caucus Advisory Committee
• Copyfight
• Copyright49: Blog Dealing with U.S. Copyright Law from a Canadian Perspective
• Copyright Board Canada
• CopyrightLaws.com
• Copyright Renewal Database (Stanford University)
• Copyright Term and the Public Domain in the United States: A Chart (Peter Hirtle)
• Copyright WebSite (benedict.com)
• Copyright Clearance Center Online
• Copyright Exercises
• Copyright Litigation Blog
• Copyright Policy Branch, Department of Canadian Heritage
• Copyright Society of the USA
• Creative Commons
• Digital Copyright course syllabus
• Digital Copyright Slider
• Digital Future Coalition
• Duke University: Center for the Study of the Public Domain
• Electronic Frontier Foundation Intellectual Property Resource Page
• The Eric Eldred Act
• European Copyright User Platform
• Fair Use
  • Mary Minow: How I Learned to Love Fair Use
  • Stanford Univ. Copyright and Fair Use Center
  • United States Copyright Office: Fair Use
• Federal Copyright Protection for Pre-1972 Sound Recordings: A Study on the Desirability of and Means for Bringing Sound Recordings Fixed Before February 15, 1972, Under Federal Jurisdiction.
• The Harry Fox Agency
• Friends of Active Copyright Education
• Google News: Copyright
• Industry Canada: Intellectual Property
• Information Commons
• Intellectual Property Information Mall (Franklin Pierce Law Center)
• Intellectual Property Owners Association
• Intellectual Property Watch
• International Association for the Protection of Intellectual Property
• International Intellectual Property Alliance (IIPA)
• International Intellectual Property Institute
• Internet Cases
• IP Central.Info
• IPKat
• IP Justice
• IP Watchdog
• Lawrence Lessig on Copyright
• LibraryLaw Blog
• Motion Picture Licensing Corporation
• Movie Licensing USA
• National Intellectual Property Researchers Association
• NetCoalition
• NOLO
• Open Content Alliance
• The Open Library
• Orphan Works.net
• Orphan Works Blog
• “Orphan Works” Initiative and Save Orphan Works
• Plagiarism Today
• Preparing for Orphan Works Legislation, by Victor S. Perlman, Esq., Rangefinder, The Magazine for Professional Photographers, June 1, 2012.
• Public Knowledge
• Public Library of Law
• Recording Industry Association of America
• SESAC
• Section 108 Study Group
• Son of the Sheik 1976-77 Copyright Court Case: Raymond ROHAUER and Cecil W. Hull, Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. KILLIAM SHOWS, INC., et al., Defendants, Killiam Shows, Inc., and Educational Broadcasting Corporation, Defendants- Appellants.
• Stanford Law School Center for Internet and Society
• TechnoLlama
• Text of United States Copyright Law
• Trademark and Other Intellectual Property Resource Guide
• U.S. Catalog of Copyright Entries and Renewals
• U.S. Copyright Database of Records
• U.S. Copyright Group
• United States Copyright Office
• United States Patent and Trademark Office
• VistaPrint: Copyright Facts and Resources
• WATCH: Writers, Artists and their Copyright Holders
• World Intellectual Property Organization and its Collection of Laws for Electronic Access: database of intellectual property legislation from many nations
• Yahoo Law: Intellectual Property