Copyright and the First Amendment: Recommended Sources

Nancy Kranich

“Walking the Highwire: Exploring the Tension between Intellectual Freedom, Privacy, and Intellectual Property”

Saturday, June 26, 1:30 p.m. - 3:30 p.m., Orange County Convention Center 209 B/C

Background Materials Related to Copyright

Boyle, James, Shamans, Software and Spleens: Law and the Construction of the Information Society, Cambridge, MA: Harvard U. Press, 1996.

Boynton, Robert S. “The Tyranny of Copyright?” New York Times Magazine, January 25, 2004, Section 6, p. 40, Column 1. http://www.nytimes.com/2004/01/25/magazine/25COPYRIGHT.html

Heins, Marjorie, “The Progress of Science and Useful Arts”: Why Copyright Today Threatens Intellectual Freedom. New York: Free Expression Policy Project, 2003, http://www.fepproject.org/policyreports/copyright2d.pdf

Kranich, Nancy, The Information Commons: A Public Policy Report, New York: Free Expression Policy Project, 2004. http://www.fepproject.org/policyreports/InformationCommons.pdf

Lessig, Lawrence, Free Culture, New York: Penguin Press, April 2004.

Lessig, Lawrence, The Future of Ideas: The Fate of the Commons in a Connected World, New York: Random House, 2001.

Litman, Jessica, Digital Copyright, Amherst, NY: Prometheus Press, 2001.

National Academy of Sciences, Board on International Scientific Organizations (BISO), The Role of Scientific and Technical Data and Information in the Public Domain: Proceedings of a Symposium, Washington, DC: National Academy Press, 2003; and Reichman and Uhlir, 2003.

National Research Council, The Digital Dilemma: Intellectual Property in the Information Age, Washington, DC: National Academy Press, 2000.

Patterson, L. Ray, and Stanley W. Lindberg, The Nature of Copyright: A Law of Users’ Rights, Athens, GA: University of Georgia Press, 1991.

Samuelson, Pamela, "The Copyright Grab," Wired, vol. 4, #1, January 1996. http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/4.01/white.paper_pr.html

Smith, Mark, “Intellectual Property and the AAUP,” Academe, Vol. 88, # 5 (Sept—Oct 2002).

http://www.aaup.org/publications/Academe/2002/02so/02sosmi.htm

Vaidhyanathan, Siva, The Anarchist in the Library, New York: Basic Books, 2004.

Vaidhyanathan, Siva, Copyrights and Copywrongs: The Rise of Intellectual Property and How It Threatens Creativity, New York: NYU Press, 2001.

Copyright Policy Guides

Consortium for Educational Technology for University Systems, CSU-SUNY-CUNY Joint Committee, Working Group on Ownership, Legal Rights of Use, and Fair Use, Seal Beach, CA : California State University, 1997.

Cornish, Graham, Copyright: Interpreting the Law for Libraries, Archives, and Information Services, New York: Neal Schuman Publishers, 2004.

Crawford, Tad, and Kay Murray, The Writer's Legal Guide: an Authors Guild Desk Reference, 3rd ed., New York: Allworth Press; Authors Guild, 2002.

Crews, Kenneth D., Copyright Essentials for Librarians and Educators, Chicago, IL: American Library Association, 2000.

Gasaway, Laura, ed., Growing Pains: Adapting Copyright for Libraries, Education, and Society, Littleton, Colo.: F.B. Rothman, 1997. 

Hoffman, Gretchen McCord, Copyright in Cyberspace: Questions & Answers for Librarians, New York: Neal Schuman Publishers, 2001.

McSherry, Corynne, Who Owns Academic Work? Battling for Control of Intellectual Property, Cambridge, MA: Harvard, 2001.

Padfield, Tim, Copyright for Archivists, 2^nd Edition, New York: Neal Schuman Publishers, 2004.

Russell, Carrie, Complete Copyright: An Everyday Guide for Librarians, Chicago, IL: American Library Association, June 2004.

U.S. Library of Congress, Copyright Office, Copyright Basics, Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, Copyright Office, 2002..

Wherry, Timothy Lee, Librarian's Guide to Intellectual Property in the Digital Age Copyrights, Patents, and Trademarks, Chicago, IL: American Library Association, 2001.

Web sites

American Library Association, Washington Office, Copyright web site. http://www.ala.org/ala/washoff/WOissues/copyrightb/copyright.htm

Association of Research Libraries, Copyright and Intellectual Property web page. http://www.arl.org/info/frn/copy/copytoc.html

Center for Democracy and Technology, Copyright web site. http://www.cdt.org/copyright/

Chilling Effects, web site.

http://www.chillingeffects.org/

Electronic Frontier Foundation, EFF "Intellectual Property Online: Patent, Trademark, Copyright" Archive, web site.

http://www.eff.org/IP//

Free Expression Policy Project, “Copyright,” web page. http://www.fepproject.org/issues/copyright.html

Indiana University/Purdue University (IUPU), Copyright Management Center, web site. http://www.copyright.iupui.edu/

International Federation of Library Associations (IFLA), “Information Policy: POLICY:
Copyright and Intellectual Property,” web site.

http://www.ifla.org/II/cpyright.htm

New School University, “Copyright Resources for Educators and Librarians on the Internet,” web site.

http://www.newschool.edu/library/copyrigh.htm

Public Knowledge.

http://www.publicknowledge.org

U.S. Library of Congress, Copyright Office.

http://www.copyright.gov/