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.

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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

EU lawmakers and governments agreed on new rights for Internet users Thursday, aiming to protect them from arbitrary crackdowns on those who illegally download music and movies on the Internet.

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.

As of Monday - thanks to a permanent injunction issued in August by Judge Leonard Davis of the Eastern District of Texas and upheld last month by the Federal Circuit Court of Appeals - Microsoft Corporation must stop selling any version of Microsoft Word 2007 or Microsoft Office 2007 that includes a custom XML editor found to infringe a patent held by a small Canadian software company called i4i, Inc.

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.

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