Assignment: Linking Project Results

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Each student in the Fall 2003 Copyright Law class selected and described five websites on particular copyright topics. These websites are listed below under the students' names. The link next to each student's name displays the descriptions and evaluations of each site. Click on the links below the topic title for the top 3 links for each topic selected by the students and the group's powerpoint presentation.

GROUP 1: Slinky Dresses And Contributory Infringement

Group Top 3 Websites: (links with descriptions)

• RIAA Press Room: Legal Cases
• ChillingEffects.org Copyright
• Peer-to-Peer File Sharing and Copyright Law after Napster

Group Presentation

Students' individual websites and descriptions:

• Kelly Barrett   (Links with descriptions)
• File Sharing, Innocent until Proven Guilty
• Piracy v. Fair Use, Where's the Line?
• Anti-Piracy File Sharing Bill Goes To The House
• How to not get sued by the RIAA for file sharing
• Fear of a Pay Per Use World
• Karen Bilek   (Links with descriptions)
• Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA)
• IP Watchdog: Copyright Law
• Electronic Frontier Foundation
• Software & Information Industry Association (SIIA): Copyright law & Related Issues
• GigaLaw.com: Copyright Law : Napster, MP3, etc.
• Igor Bilmes   (Links with descriptions)
• Freedoom to Tinker
• Madster.com
• Kazaa, Aimster or Bearshare?
• Computer & Online Industry Litigation Reporter
• Aimster Appeal Decision Clears Way for Trial
• Sean Carrell   (Links with descriptions)
• Grammy.com News
• What is Aimster?
• The 7th Circuit Court of Appeal denied EFF's motion for leave to file the Amicus brief on June 2, 2003
• Billboard.com Hits of the Web
• Benedict.com Copyright Website
• Patrick Cassidy   (Links with descriptions)
• Aimster Appeal Decision Clears Way for Trial
• Non-Infringing Uses of Gnutella
• Music Cos, Retailers To Pay $143M In CD Price-Fixing Suit
• Electronic Frontier Foundation
• Embrace file-sharing, or die
• Amy Chen   (Links with descriptions)
• Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) Press Room
• ChillingEffects.org Copyright
• Peer-to-Peer File Sharing and Copyright Law after Napster
• The Digital Millenium Copyright Act of 1988 - US Copyright Office Summary
• Professor Staudt: Vicarious and Contributory Infringement Presentation
• Michelle Kessler   (Links with descriptions)
• Electronic Frontier Foundation
• ChillingEffects.org
• Digital Media Association
• GigaLaw.com
• Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA)

Group Top 3 Websites: (links with descriptions)

• Background Discussion of Copyright Law and Potential Liability for Students Engaged in P2P File Sharing on University's Networks
• Electronic Frontier Foundation
• RIAA Press Room: Verizon Case

Group Presentation

Students' individual websites and descriptions:

• David Freydin   (Links with descriptions)
• Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA)
• Electronic Frontier Foundation
• Colleges tackle music piracy
• Statement of Hilary Rosen, Chairman and CEO Recording Industry Association of America, before the Subcommittee on Courts, the Internet and Intellectual Property Committee on the Judiciary United States House of Representatives on "Peer-To-Peer Piracy on University Campuses"
• Making Love, Not War, Would Be Music To Their Ears
• Jamie Goldstein   (Links with descriptions)
• Hatch Takes Aim at Illegal Downloading
• A Discordant Message on Music - Battle Against Piracy Frustrated by Complacency of Many Parents, Universities
• Why All Music Should Be Online
• An Iowa State University Internet security expert was expected to tell a U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee today that sharing Internet-accessible files is becoming a popular way to spread pornography
• Illegal Music Sites 'Here to Stay'
• Christopher Haggerty   (Links with descriptions)
• HotBand.com Music News Headlines
• Future of Music Coalition
• IPWatchdog.com: MP3s and the Law
• Copyright primer on Computer music files
• Perkins Coie Internet Case Digest
• Tamara Jaggers   (Links with descriptions)
• RIAA Press Room: Verizon Case
• Universal To Cut Wholesale Prices Of CDs
• Profiling the music pirates
• Recording industry launches project to develop sound ID
• Copyright Cops Target Workplace, Schools
• Luke Mangan   (Links with descriptions)
• Boycott-RIAA.com
• RIAA Glossary of Terms
• The UCLA Online Institute for Cyberspace Law and Policy
• RIAA's Hit List: Resources for File Sharers
• File Sharing and Peer-to-Peer Technology
• Robert Mellican   (Links with descriptions)
• Subpoena Defense.org Defending The Constitutional Rights of ISPs and Consumers
• RIAA v. Verizon Internet Services Legal Briefs
• Electronic Frontier Foundation
• Boycott-RIAA.com Links
• Background Discussion of Copyright Law and Potential Liability for Students Engaged in P2P File Sharing on University's Networks
• Luke Novak   (Links with descriptions)
• US Copyright Office, Library of Congress
• Subpoena Defense.org Defending The Constitutional Rights of ISPs and Consumers
• RIAA Letter to Universities Urges Capuses to Crack Down on File Trading
• Lawmakers Demand That Colleges Crack Down on Illegal File Sharing
• Should Universities Crack Down on File Swapping?

Group Top 3 Websites: (links with descriptions)

• Electronic Frontier Foundation
• Motion Picture Association of America
• Openlaw on Open DVD

Group Presentation

Students' individual websites and descriptions:

• Ian O’Neill   (Links with descriptions)
• Electronic Frontier Foundation
• Motion Picture Association of America
• OpenLaw on Open DVD
• 2600.org The Hacker Quarterly
• ChillingEffects.com
• Mary Peal   (Links with descriptions)
• California court rules for DVD industry
• Orrick.com
• ACLU Urges Appeals Court to Protect Free Speech Rights In Landmark DVD Copyright Case
• MP3s and DVDs Spawn Novel First Amendment Issues In the New Millennium
• Misuse of copyright law is an affront to the rights of computer scientists
• David Perkins   (Links with descriptions)
• US Copyright Office, Library of Congress
• Gallery of CSS Descramblers
• The Copyright Assembly
• Electronic Frontier Foundation
• First Amendment Center
• A Review of the Digital Millenium Copyright Act in Its First Application Against Decryption Software
• Elizabeth Popolis   (Links with descriptions)
• Motion Picture Association of America
• IE Patent Battle Heats Up
• Electronic Frontier Foundation
• First Amendment Center
• 2600.com The Hacker Quarterly
• Denise Randolph   (Links with descriptions)
• Uniform Trade Secrets Act
• Trade Secrets & Industrial Espionage - Online Piracy
• An Overview of the Communications Decency Act (CDA)
• Trade secrets outweigh free speech, California's high court says
• Fox Exec Wants Help Ending Piracy
• Melissa Saffer   (Links with descriptions)
• Critique of DVD CCA's claims about DeCSS
• OpenLaw on Open DVD
• Napster and DeCSS: The Future of Entertainment in Cyberspace
• Opendvd.org
• DVD Copy Control Association FAQs

Group Top 3 Websites: (links with descriptions)

• SCO v. IBM Linux lawsuit
• Recent SCO Headlines
• Open Source Initiative

Group Presentation

Students' individual websites and descriptions:

• Eric Sangster   (Links with descriptions)
• US Copyright Office, Library of Congress
• OpenBSD 3.3
• GNU.org
• IPwatchdog.com
• Free Protocols Foundation
• Emily Schwartz   (Links with descriptions)
• Open Source Initiative
• World Intellectual Property Organization
• Bitlaw.com: A Resouce on Technology Law
• Electronic Frontier Foundation
• GNU.org
• Sherese Shabazz   (Links with descriptions)
• GNU.org
• US Copyright Office, Library of Congress
• Software & Information Industry Association
• Intellectual Property Law Server
• Techweb.com Software
• Raefat Shaltout   (Links with descriptions)
• Pierce Law: Copyright for Computer Authors
• An Overview of "Open Source" Software Licenses
• Google Directory for Open Source Licenses
• GNU.org/
• Orrick.com
• Anthony Valach   (Links with descriptions)
• OSI Position Paper on the SCO-vs.-IBM Complaint
• SCO v. IBM Linux lawsuit
• Copyright & Fair Use, Stanford Universities Library
• Intellectual Property
• Users set to ignore SCO's Linux threat
• David Wilding   (Links with descriptions)
• SCO's Linux Fight Headlines
• IBM's Motion to Compel Discovery: What Trade Secrets Are You Talking About?
• Recent SCO Headlines
• Opportunities for Open Source Software in the Publishing Industry
• FSF's Position regarding SCO's attacks on Free Software
• Thomas Nicholson   (Links with descriptions)
• SCO.com
• IBM's Motion to Compel Discovery: What Trade Secrets Are You Talking About?
• Open Source Development Labs
• GNU.org
• US Copyright Office, Library of Congress

Group Top 3 Websites: (links with descriptions)

• Rep. Coble Reintroduces Database Protection Bill
• Ius mentis.com
• Database Protection in the European Union

Group Presentation

Students' individual websites and descriptions:

• Venkate Nayak Salatry   (Links with descriptions)
• Bitlaw.com Database Legal Protection
• US Copyright Office Report on Legal Protection for Databases
• Collections of Information Antipiracy Act
• Database Proposals and Legislation
• The European Database Directive Sets the Worldwide Agenda
• Anuj Sharma   (Links with descriptions)
• ThePrivacyManager.com July 2003 Archives
• Database protection in the USA
• NetCoalition.com Key Issues: Database
• Rep. Coble Reintroduces Database Protection Bill
• Internet Attorney: Privacy
• Bassil Swaiss   (Links with descriptions)
• Database Protection and Access to Information
• Sui Generis Database Protection
• The Future of Database Protection in U.S. Copyright Law
• http://www.ist-socrates.berkeley.edu/~scotch/maurer_scotchmer.htm
• Database Protection in the European Union
• Guillermo Torres de Noriega   (Links with descriptions)
• US Copyright Office, Library of Congress
• The portal to European Union law
• CyberLiability.net
• The Legal500.com
• BNA.com Internet Law News
• Kanokwarin Sirowate   (Links with descriptions)
• American Library Association
• NetCoalition.com
• International Database Protection Legal Framework
• The Future of the database protection in U.S. Copyright law
• Copyright Protection in the European Union

Group Top 3 Websites: (links with descriptions)

• Ministry of Commerce of the People's Republic of China
• http://www.chinaiprlaw.com/english/
• http://www.ccopyright.com.cn/

Group Presentation

Students' individual websites and descriptions:

• Jie Gao   (Links with descriptions)
• http://www.ncac.gov.cn/
• International Intellectual Property Alliance
• Copyright Information in China
• From Pirates To Partners: Protecting Intellectual Property In China In The Twenty-First Century
• Independent Voice of Chinese Intellectuals
• Hsin-Li Hu   (Links with descriptions)
• World Intellectual Property Organization
• TRIPS (trade-related aspects of intellectual property rights) Material on the WTO Website
• Intellectual Property Rights Experts Group (IPEG) Intellectual Property Resource
• Motion Picture Association of America
• http://www.ncac.gov.cn
• Wenfeng Li   (Links with descriptions)
• Ministry of Commerce of the People's Republic of China
• Chinese Commerical and Maritime Trial Involving Foerign Elements
• http://www.chinaiprlaw.com/english/
• Lehman, Lee & Xu Lawfirm
• http://www.ccopyright.com.cn/
• Chia-Yi Li   (Links with descriptions)
• US Copyright Office, Library of Congress
• What is Copyright Protection?
• Motion Picture Association of America: Anti-Piracy
• Anti-piracy Endeavor Fruitful
• Business Software Alliance
• Shengming Shi   (Links with descriptions)
• CNINPR.com
• National Copyright Administration Of The People's Republc Of China
• Shanghai Intellectual Property
• China Intellectual Property Net
• CPCC
• Bingui Wu   (Links with descriptions)
• National Copyright Administration of The People's Republic of China
• USTA report on China
• A Brief Chronology of China's Intellectual Property Protection
• A Patchwork of IPR Protections
• Intellectual Property Rights Enforcement in China

Group Top 3 Websites: (links with descriptions)

• The European Union in the United States
• Business Software Alliance: Copyright and Intellectual Property
• The Draft IPR Enforcement Directive — A Threat to Competition and to Liberty

Group Presentation

Students' individual websites and descriptions:

• Henrik Ott-Ebbesen   (Links with descriptions)
• The European Union in the United States
• Eropean Copyright User Platform Copyright Focal Point/
• Trips: Agreement On Trade-Related Aspects Of Intellectual Property Rights
• http://www.curia.eu.int/
• Eurorights.org, your rights online
• Holger Postel   (Links with descriptions)
• The European Parliament: Voice of the people
• Directive 2001/29/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 22 May 2001 on the harmonisation of certain aspects of copyright and related rights in the information society
• The Copyright Directive (2001/29/EC) - UK Implementation
• European Union Copyright Directive
• The Draft IPR Enforcement Directive — A Threat to Competition and to Liberty
• Goesta Schindler   (Links with descriptions)
• Eurorights.org, your rights online
• European Union Online
• Business Software Alliance: Copyright and Intellectual Property
• IP Justice
• http://www.intellectual-property.org.uk/std/resources/copyright_links/a_d.htm
• Sabine Barb Weyergraf   (Links with descriptions)
• Internal Market: Commission moves against 13 Member States for failure to implement EU legislation
• EU: Internet Copyright Directive
• EU law - definitions
• Copyright Reform and Legal Education on the Internet
• http://europa.eu.int/cj/de/content/juris/index.htm