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Copyright and copyright infringement on the Internet has been a largely debated topic. Musicians, writers and artists have teamed together in recent years to stop copyright infringement on the Internet.

Copyright/information piracy is much older than the net, as a new book shows. There was copying and distributing centuries ago - and the people were responsible were called pirates! The current copyright regime didn't arrive until the 18th century and it entered into an existing culture of copying and pirating.

I'm not sure how credible this site is- my brother uses it quite a bit, but according to it, (look at the highlights) fan fiction is a violation of copyright.

Factsheet on fair use of copyrighted works.

This is an article that discusses some copyright issues of Harry Potter. This specifially mentions how other countries have adapted the story for their own countries versions.

This is an article that describe a situation where the lines of copyright got blurred between internet and print.

This opinion site relates well to my topic; what constitutes music sampling. Musicians are trying to get money from other musicians for copyright infringement... but sometimes it is only two notes that they say were copied. How does court rule out the real copyright infringement cases from the cases that are just musicians trying to make a few extra bucks.

This discusses copyright cases and specifically mentions Harry Potter.

Information about what the term "Copyleft" means. It is a play on the word "copyright", and is ironic since the Copyleft logo has no legal meaning.

This website could also be helpful to several people while working on their projects. It discusses copyright laws, multimedia laws, website rules, etc.

Copyright is an exceptionally popular subject on the Web, as a simple search on Alta Vista or one of the Web Crawlers will show. The usual rag bag of articles, advertising announcements, academic sites and so on will be picked up by such searches. In this brief article, I want to draw attention to some of the sites that I find useful when wandering lost in cyberspace. The sites are in no particular order, and many of them are linked to each other. I have given them a personal smiley rating as follows:

An attempt to answer common myths about copyright seen on the net and cover issues related to copyright and USENET/Internet publication.

Looks at the law of copyright infringement and how it should or should not be changed due to the right of creativity and free speech.

Another documentary about copyright & remix culture when it comes to intellectual property.

Another documentary called GOOD COPY BAD COPY that deals with issues surrounding music copyright, sampling, and intellectual property.

The blogs have been atwitter. It all started when ESPN republished without consent a tweet by Mark Cuban, owner of the Dallas Mavericks, that criticized NBA referees. Cuban then posed the question on his blog of whether copyright law protected his tweets. Legal experts joined the conversation, and the debate began.

This "Copyright Information Services" site, gives a basic explanation of music sampling laws. It also gives the rates which musicians will have to pay to legally be able to sample another musicians music.

Considering our brief discussion about copyrighted material, I thought this link might provide an interesting perspective. Negativeland is a group of 'musicians' who splice copyrighted material together to create songs. They have faced a number of lawsuits, but continue to produce music despite widespread criticism.

The Constitution grants Congress the power "To promote the progress of science and useful arts, by securing for limited times to authors and inventors the exclusive right to their respective writings and discoveries ..." Copyright coverage under the law now includes: architectural design, software, the graphic arts, motion pictures, and sound recordings. It includes articles by writers written and published on the internet. Read more at Suite101: Copyright Infringement of Internet Articles: Significant Penalties for Stealing a Writer's Work http://law.suite101.com/article.cfm/copyright_infringement_of_internet_articles#ixzz0etrpeZ3M

More information on Copyright Laws of Fair Use with specific regards to Weird Al Yankovic