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Videos

"The Public Perception of Copyright" (Video interviews, Chicago, 2006)

To document the public perception of copyright today, we went around Chicago with a video camera over two days in the summer of 2006, asking strangers what they think about copyright...

"History of Copyright and Information Ownership" (Talk by Karl Fogel, at the Stanford University Library, 19 Oct 2006)

The talk lasts about 90 minutes, including the question-and-answer period. The audience members' backgrounds were in library science, computer science, publishing, and law, so the Q&A is as useful as the talk.

Library

The Promise of a Post-Copyright World
by Karl Fogel

A Music Teacher Describes How Copyright Hinders Music Education
by Janet Underhill

The Professional Suicide of a Recording Musician
by Bob Ostertag

Let the Great Cross-Referencing Begin: Google Book Search as Plagiarism Detector
by Karl Fogel

The Joyce Hatto Case: How Filesharing Defeats Plagiarism
by Karl Fogel

A Classroom Teacher on Copying vs Plagiarism
by Jessica Ferris

Supporting Open Source While Opposing Copyright
by Karl Fogel

Copyright Bibliography
Some good print and online resources for learning more about the history of copyright.

See also...

Right to Create, a web journal about how copyright and patent law interferes with people's ability to create new works.

The Open Knowledge Foundation "Protecting and Promoting Open Knowledge in a Digital Age"

AgainstMonopoly.org,
An excellent group blog on copyright and patent issues; the name says it all.

Thought Thieve$
Lots of links to copyright reform videos. Their tagline says it all: "documenting the end of the age of knowledge monopolies"

ChillingEffects.org, a clearinghouse of Cease and Desist letters sent by information monopolists to people who copy.

one small voice: publicdomain,
Peter Saint-André's excellent blog on copyright and the public domain.

CopyrightReform.us, a good advocacy site (more from the "reform it" than "scrap it and start over" school), with up-to-date news about recent copyright outrages.

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