The Coming of Copyright Perpetuity

The New York Times speaks out against the indefinite extension of copyright. More...

Digital Copyright Listserv
From the web site: "The Digital Copyright Listserv aims to be a space for educators, policy makers, librarians, lawyers, and all who have a vested interest in digital copyright and other intellectual property matters of importance to the higher education community." The list moved to a new server a couple of days ago. More...

Copyleft vs. Copyright: A Marxist Critique
Marxism may not be popular in, well, anywhere, but this essay raises some useful points of discussion in the current debates on copyright. One of the major contributions is the explicit linking of the copyright debate with the commodification of information. More...

Howling Mad Over Hollings' Bill
More on new copyright legislation being proposed to the U.S. government. This is a useful sketch because it details the impact of the legislation on the average user (so it's not some abstract debate about litigation between faceless corporations). More...

Copyright: Fundamental Gap?
VNU's OLNews sent out some advice to educators on copyright issues last Tuesday, advice that seemed to me so one-sided and misguided that I was prompted to send back a missive in return. The essence of the response was that academics and instructional designers ought to stop blithely following the doctrine of blind adherence to copyright and to begin circumventing the copyright machinery by not using proprietary materials and by not signing their own copyrights over to publishers. More...

EU Copyright Directive Finally on the Road
The EU Council of Ministers has adopted the European Copyright Directive (ECD) giving member countries until 2003 to adopt the legislation. The directive impacts on a number of previously free uses of copyright information including quoting and deep linking. More...