figuring out whether state documents are copyrighted is a tricky question, and we've created this website to help identify the relevant laws in each state.
U.S. Copyright Office, Office of the Register. The goal of the Index is to make the principles and application of fair use more accessible and understandable to the public by presenting a searchable database of court opinions, including by category and type of use (e.g., music, internet/digitization, parody).
The Chilling Effects database collects and analyzes legal complaints and requests for removal of online materials, helping Internet users to know their rights and understand the law. These data enable us to study the prevalence of legal threats and let Internet users see the source of content removals.
SHERPA's new JULIET service breaks down the differing requirements from each of the Research Councils to try and simplify what the policy says has to be done, what authors should archive, when they should archive, and where they should archive their outputs. The list then categorises the different sets of advice in comparison to an ideal Open Access mandate. The JULIET list complements the well-known RoMEO list, which summarises publishers' permissions for archiving research articles.
Reports on a year-long study by the Berkman Center for Internet and Society, examining the relationship between copyright law and education. In particular, whether innovative educational uses of digital technology were hampered by the restrictions of copy
I would gladly live in a world without copyright, but I don't think that is going to happen. Therefore the best objective, most beneficial to all parties-- and a Xanadu proposal now for forty years-- is to find some way to make copyright less painful, an