Copyright Resources and Current Issues

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Posted by Lorre Smith at 01:56 PM | Permalink | Comments (0)

This discussion of the President's gift highlights the silliness of our U.S. copyright law situation, and the continuing extraordinary influence of special interests.

http://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2009/04/first-sale-president-obama-and-queen-england

Posted by Lorre Smith at 02:06 PM | Permalink | Comments (0)

A succinct series of pages regarding copyright and fair use, "BitLaw is created by Dan Tysver of the Minneapolis law firm of Beck & Tysver. "

http://www.bitlaw.com/copyright/index.html

Posted by Lorre Smith at 11:03 AM | Permalink | Comments (0)