You'll find links to many useful articles, court briefs, and United States federal documents here. If you have any additions to the list, or if any of the URLs are no longer functional, please email Lynne Cooke at cookel@rpi.edu. Thank you.

Barlow, John Perry. "An Economy of Ideas." Wired, March 1994.
http://www.hotwired.com/wired/2.03/features/economy.ideas.html.

Breslow, Jordan J. "Copyright Law."
gopher://sulaw.law.su.OZ.AU:70/00/Law Documents/Collection of various Laws (mainly from U.S.)/copyright.law

Brinson, J. Dianne and Mark F. Radcliffe. "Intellectual Property Law Primer for Multimedia Developers."
http://www.timestream.com/web/info/mmlaw.html.

Burk, Dan L. "Transborder Intellectual Property Issues on the Electronic Frontier." Stanford Law & Policy Review. Vol. 5, Copyright 1994.
gopher://gopher.gmu.edu:70/00/academic/colleges-depts-insts-schools/law/working/dburk2.

Burk, Dan L. "Trademarks Along the Infobahn: A look at the Emerging Law of Cybermarks." Richmond Journal of Law and Technology 1, April 10, 1995.
http://www.urich.edu/~jolt/v1i1/burk.html.

Crews, Kenneth D. "Copyright Law and the Doctoral Dissertation."
gopher://arl.cni.org:70/00/scomm/copyright/other/crews.

Denber, Micael. "Intellectual Property Rights." Panel transcription.
gopher://sulaw.law.su.OZ.AU:70/00/Law Documents/Collection of various Laws (mainly from U.S.)/intellectual-property.rights

Demack, Donna. "Property Rights in the Electronic Dawn." Reflex, August/September 1994.
http://www.nlc-bnc.ca/documents/infopol/copyright/demac2.htm.

Dyson, Esther. "Intellectual Value." Wired, July 1995.
http://www.hotwired.com/wired/3.07/features/dyson.html.

Elias, Steve. "Copyright in Cyberspace." Nolo News, September 1994.
http://www.benedict.com/copynolo.htm.

Erickson, John S. "Open Commerce through Enhanced Attribution." To Appear in the Proceedings of the 1996 IMA Forum on Technology-Based IP Management.
http://www.netrights.com/EnhancedAttribution.html

Erickson, John S. "A Copyright Management System for Networked Interactive Multimedia." Proceedings of the 1995 Dartmouth Institute for Advanced Graduate Studies.
http://www.netrights.com/DAGS95.html.

Erickson, John S. "Can Fair Use Survive our Information-Based Future?"
http://www.netrights .com/FairUseInfoFuture.html.

Fernandez, Dennis. "Understanding Intellectual Property Rights."
http://www.batnet.com/oikoumene/dfIPRights.html.

Garfinkel, Simson L. "Patently Absurd." Wired, July 1994.
http://www.hotwired.com/wired/2.07/features/patents.html.

Gloster, Deam M. and Kat McCabe. "Making the New Media Deal," Intellectual Property Magazine, July 1995.
http://www.portal.com/~recorder/gloster.html.

Greguras, Fred, Michael Egger, and Sandy J. Wong. "Multimedia Content and the Super Highway: Rapid Acceleration or Foot on the Brake?"
http://www.batnet.com/oikoumene/mmcopyright.html.

Halbert, Debora. "Computer Technology and Legal Discourse: The Potential for Modern Communication Technology to Challenge Legal Discourse of Authorship and Property."
gopher://portia.murdoch.edu.au:70/00/.ftp/pub/subj/law/jnl/elaw/comment/halbert.txt.

Halbert, Matin. "Copyright, Digital Media, and Libraries."
gopher://sulaw.law.su.OZ.AU:70/00/Law Documents/Collection of various Laws (mainly from U.S.)/copyright.libraries.

Hardy, Trotter. "Contracts, Copyright, and Preemption in a Digital World." Richmond Journal of Law and Technology, April 17, 1995.
http://www.urich.edu/~jolt/v1i1/hardy.html.

Index Stock Photography, Inc. "Understanding Copyright Law."
http://www.indexstock.com/pages/copyrite.htm.

Lemley, Mark. "Rights of Attribution and Integrity in Online Communication." Journal of Online Law, June 1995.
http://www.law.cornell.edu/jol/lemley.html

Leventhal, Michael. "Who Can Stake a Claim in Cyberspace?"
http://www.primenet.com/wiredlaw/domain.htm.

Littman, Jessica. "Revising Copyright Law for the Information Age." Twenty-third Annual Telecommunications Policy Research Conference, October 2, 1195.
http://swissnet.ai.mit.edu/6805/articles/int-prop/litman-revising/revising.html.

Losey, Ralph. "Practical and Legal Protection of Computer Databases."
http://seamless.com/rcl/article.html.

Negativland. "Fair Use."
ftp://ftp.primus.com/pub/negativland/fair.use.

National Writer's Union. "Statement on Principles of Contract between Writers and Electronic Book Publishers."
http://www.ilt.columbia.edu/projects/copyright/papers/NWU/NWU1.html.

Negroponte, Nicholas. "A Bill of Writes." Wired, May 1995.
http://www.hotwired.com/wired/3.05/departments/negroponte.html.

Oakley, Robert L. "Copyright and Preservation: A Serious Problem in Need of a Thoughtful Solution."
gopher://palimpsest.stanford.edu:70/00/ByOrg/CPA/Reports/oakley.txt.

Samuelson, Pamela. "The NII Intellectual Property Report." Communications of the ACM, December 1994.
http://www.eff.org/papers/samuelson.html

Samuelson, Pamela. "Copyright Law and Electronic Compilations of Data." Communications of the ACM February 1995.
http://www.eff.org/pub/Intellectual_property/ip_and_electronic_data.paper

Smauleson, Pamela."Copyright, Digital Data, and Fair Use in Networked Environments."
http://www.droit.umontreal.ca/CRDP/Conferences/AE/Samuelson.html.

Samuelson, Pamela. "Digital Media and the Law." Communications of the ACM, October 1991.
http://www.eff.org/pub/Intellectual_property/digital_media_and_law.paper.

Samuelson, Pamela. "First Amendment Rights for Information Providers." Communications of the ACM, June 1991.
http://www.eff.org/pub/Intellectual_property/first_amend_rights_for_info_providers.paper

Samuelson, Pamela. "Is Information Property?" Communications of the ACM, March 1991.
http://www.eff.org/pub/Intellectual_property/is_info_property.paper

Samuelson, Pamela. "The Copyright Grab."
http://www.hotwired.com/wired/whitepaper.html

Smallson, Fran. "Soliciting From a Spectrum of Sources." Intellectual Property Magazine, February 1995.
http://www.portal.com/~recorder/smallson.html.

Shneiderman, Ben. "Protecting rights in user interface designs." ACM SIGCHI Bulletin, October 1990.
gopher://wiretap.spies.com:70/00/Library/Article/Rights/userintf.cp.

Stallman, Richard M. "Copywrong."
gopher://info.asu.edu/00/asu-cwis/pub-progs/com457/Readings/stallman.

Strong, William. "Copyright in the New World of Electronic Publishing."
http://www.nlc-bnc.ca/documents/infopol/copyright/strong.htm.

Templeton, Brad. "Ten Big Myths About Copyright Explained."
http://www.clari.net/brad/copymyths.html.

World Library, Inc. v. Pacific Hitech, Inc.

Parfums Givenchy, Inc. v. Drug Emporium, Inc.

Feist Publications v. Rural Telephone Service Company.
499 U.S. 340 (1991)

Qualitex Company v. Jacobson Products Company, Inc.

United Dictionary Co. v. G. & C. Merriam Co.

Columbia Broadcasting System, Inc. v. Scorpio Music Distributors, Inc.

BellSouth Advertising & Publishing Corporation v. Donnelley Information Publishing, Inc.

CCC Information Services, Inc. v. MacLean Hunter Market Reports, Inc.

Warren Publishing, Inc. v. Microdos Data Corp

Lotus Development Corp. v. Borland International, Inc.

United States Patent Act, as amended.

Title 37 Code of Federal Regulations. This is the section detailing claims to copyright, freedom of information, and other relevant legal statutes.

United States Code, Title 17. This is a gopher containing the full text of Title 17. The title outlines the scope and uses of copyright.

Copyright Term Extension Act of 1995. This is bill S.483, introduced in February 1995, seeking to amend title 17 of the United States code with regard to copyright purposes.

Copyright Term Extension Act of 1995. This is bill H.R.989, introduced in Feburary 1995,to amend title 17, United States Code, with respect to the duration of copyright , and for other purposes.

Lehman, Bruce and Ronald H. Brown. "A Preliminary Draft of the Report of the Working Group on Intellectual Property Rights." The July 1994 paper.

Lehman, Bruce, and the Information Infrastructure Task Force. "Intellectual Property and the National Information Infrastructure." This is the paper that was published in September 1995.

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