Digital media and computer software disrupt our common-sense and legal ideas about intellectual property. This page is a pointer to some Web resources that deal with these subjects.

Note: this collection was assembled in mid-1994, has not been maintained much since, and is by now pretty much obsolete. For an introduction to this subject, see the pages for MIT Course 6.805/STS085: Readings on Information and Intellectual Property

Articles

  • Pamela Samuelson's critique of the NII Intellectual Property Green Paper. (excerpt)
  • Software as Intellectual Property, an article by Dan Appleman.
  • A transcript of a forum on intellectual property that took place at MIT in 1990.
  • Protection of Intellectual Property in the National Information Infrastructure
  • Knowbots, Permissions Headers, and Contract Law
  • Copyright, Digital Media, and Libraries.
  • Phil Salin, Freedom of Speech in Software
  • John Breslow, Copyright Law
  • Copyright Law

    • Documents

  • The Compton Multimedia Patent

    • Laws, Treaties, and Court Decisions

    (mostly from Cornell's law server).

  • Copyright Law
  • Patent Act of the U.S.
  • Trademark Act of the U.S.
  • Intellectual Property Decisions of the U.S. Supreme Court
  • Treaties Dealing with Intellectual Property

    • Other Web resources

  • EINet Galaxy has an intellectual property page.
  • Another intellectual property collection from Michael Ernst
  • League for Programming Freedom archive
  • US Patent and Trademark Office server
  • Patent Search Service
  • EDS Shadow Patent Office, a commercial service
    • Michael Travers / MIT Media Lab / mt@media.mit.edu