Damages of up to $150,000 per infraction can make even the threat of a  …

Cory Doctorow: Without posing this question, asking whether copyright is working is like asking how long is a piece of string

Resources on the history of particular copyright phenomena.

The Center for Social Media showcases and analyzes media for public knowledge and action—media made by, for, and with publics to address the problems that they share. We pay particular attention to the evolution of documentary film and video in a digital era. With research, public events, and convenings, we explore the fast-changing environment for public media.

Search foreign copyright laws and treaties.

Includes charts and info on foreign copyright.

The US risks losing generations of historic audio thanks to copyright laws  …

Can we create a National Digital Library? That is, a comprehensive library of digitized books that will be easily accessible to the general public. Simple as it sounds, the question is extraordinarily complex. It involves issues that concern the nature of the library to be built, the technological difficulties of designing it, the legal obstacles to getting it off the ground, the financial costs of constructing and maintaining it, and the political problems of mobilizing support for it.  Despite the complexities, the fundamental idea of a National Digital Library (or NDL) is, at its core, straightforward. The NDL would make the cultural patrimony of this country freely available to all of its citizens. It would be the digital equivalent of the Library of Congress, but instead of being confined to Capitol Hill, it would exist everywhere, bringing millions of books and other digitized material within clicking distance of public libraries, high schools, junior colleges, universities, retirement communities, and any person with access to the Internet.

How to Terminate Your Book Contract, How To Terminate a Songwriter Agreement, Copyright Termination, How To Get Back My Rights

With the first official release of the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement ( …

Copyright Termination (Lloyd J. Jassin)   The Copyright Act gives authors two opportunities to get back ownership of  their copyrights.  This article explains how authors and artists (and their  heirs) can recapture their pre-1978 copyrights.

This table provides an overview of the rights and reproduction policies of art museums within the United States as they address the reproduction and distribution of artwork reproductions. It also provides a means for comparing and analyzing how different institutions approach controlling reproduction and distribution when licensing uses of art images.