Copyright in Education
Just as I had hoped, the good folks at Web Tools Newsletter have followed up last week's discussion of copyright with a comprehensive set of links and discussion looking at a wide range of issues. More...

RSi Copyright
I ran across this while checking out an article I found via elearningpost, an article I decided not to run here because it seems to begin half way through (I now realize that elearningpost's link has been sabotaged). The service is called RSi Copyright and its a mechanism for obtaining instant copyright clearance. More...

Copying is Theft - And Other Legal Myths
This article takes a long time to make a small point, but it is a point well worth making. File sharing is not theft. Who says so? The U.S. Supreme Cour. More...

A Copyright Cold War? The Polarized Rhetoric of the Peer-to-Peer Debates
This is a nice article that looks at the rhetoric behind the debate over file sharing and compares it - successfully - to cold war rhetoric. That said, I'm not completely satisfied with the result. More...

Legal Group Spites RIAA, Defends P2P
More coverage of the counter-attack against the RIAA's campaign against file sharing. As mentioned yesterday, this debate is spreading to other forms of content, such as images. The EFF position is essentially my position: "Copyright law is out of step with the views of the American public and the reality of music distribution online," said EFF Executive Director Shari Steele. More...

Internet Sparks a Copyright Fire
Overview article of the copyright debate, included here only because the bias is so easy to demonstrate. More...

Re: LTSC-DREL: Draft Final Report Educational Copyright
I passed on news of the IEEE-LTSC Digital Rights Expression Language (DREL) group call for submissions yesterday. If you are pondering a submission, you should read this post to the DREL mailing list. More...

The Copyright Cage
"We are in the midst of a cultural war over copyright, in which the salvos show the complete disconnect between the colliding copyright regimes of statute and practicality, law and life." This overview article surveys a wide range of issues and contains numerous examples of the misapplication of copyright law. More...

The Eric Eldred Act
Lawrence Lessig has launched a petition calling on the U.S. government to pass this act. Essentially, the act would require copyright holders to pay a $1 registration fee per item after a 50 year period. More...

The Impact of Copyright Ownership on Academic Author Self-Archiving
This is the first of three 'must read' papers based on a survey of academics regarding copyright and self-publishing (the next two are immediately below). This first paper looks at the relation between authors and publishers. More...