WWW Resources on Intellectual Property Law

Tutorials

Cyberspace Law for Non-Lawyers - very nice introduction to the (US-) laws relevant to the WWW

Document Archives

EFF "Intellectual Property Online: Patent, Trademark, Copyright" Archive

Essays and Books

PUBLISHING ON THE INTERNET: SOME LEGAL PROTECTIONS AND PITFALLS

The Digital Dilemma: Intellectual Property in the Information Age - Committee on Intellectual Property Rights in the Emerging Information Infrastructure, National Research Council, 364 pages, online version of a book published 2000 by the National Academy Press

10 Big Myths about copyright explained - nice discussion of the consequences of US copyright law for web pages, e-mail, news postings and such

Law Primer - a short 1996 article on the legal issues of WWW publishing @ Electronic Frontier Foundation

Multimedia und das Urheberrecht (Stefan Bechtold)

NGOs

Electronic Frontier Foundation

League for Programming Freedom

Free Software Foundation

Center for the Public Domain

Förderverein für eine Freie Informationelle Infrastruktur

ifrOSS - Institut für Rechtsfragen der Open Source Software

About Patents

Bust Patents - Patent Info formerly at MetaLab.UNC.edu

freepatents.org - European Site about software patents

eurolinux.org - links to research arguing against software patents

Philip R. Karn (comments on US Patent practice, 1994)

International (IP) Law Indexes

Copyright Resources @ blueroom.com

The Copyright Website @ benedict.com

artikel5.de

German Law Indexes

proessl.de

gesetze-aktuell.de

rechtsfinder.de

jura.uni-sb.de

zurecht.de

netlaw.de

Transpatent (RA Krieger)

Steinherr & Vogt

JurPC

online-recht.de

RA Stadler's Sammlung Onlinerecht

medienrechtliches.de

The German Cyberlaw Project