Copyright News: Cyberlaw/Cyberspace Law

updated March 6, 2002

Articles for Web Site Designers and Site Owners. Large collection of articles by Ivan Hoffman, on work made for hire, web site copyrights, rights to use photographs, copyright transfers, and more.
Cyberlaw Encyclopedia. "The computer and information technology law reference source." A very extensive listing. Topics include junk email, meta tags, competition law, confidentiality, advertising and promotion, domain names, and many more.
Cyberspace Law & Regulation: Current Events. Part of Paul Reed's About.com website on law. News and articles on cyberspace law related issues.
Cyberspace Law Center. Intellectual property, copyright, domain names, meta tags, linking and framing, software infringement, and trademark links.
Deep Linking. Gayle Campbell's article, with examples and suggested solutions.
Eldred V. Ashcroft. A site with news and info on the Eldred Vs. Ashcroft case, being argued in October 2002.
GrepLaw. A fantastic weblog at Harvard. Excellent source of news, opinion, and commentary on cyberlaw and intellectual property.
Infringement, Copyright and Linking Issues. Designed for webmasters, this collection of About.com articles and links on clipart, graphics theft and plagiarism.
Internet and Electronics Rights Issues. Large collection of articles by Ivan Hoffman, on electronics rights, use of multimedia material on a website, domain name disputes, derivative rights, fair use, keywords and meta tags, database copyright protection (or the lack thereof), and the Uniform Domain Name Resolution Policy.
Internet Library - Phillips Nizer LLP's library of over 300 articles on Internet law.
Internet Legal Issues: Linking. Publaw.com's page on the topic.
Internet Linking Issues. Business2.com's collection of links to articles.
Linking and Crawling Issues. Ivan Hoffman's article on linking, framing, crawling, and contract issues.
Linking/Framing. Johnathan Bender's links to cases on linking and framing issues.
Linking and Framing. Phillips Nizer's page on linking and domain names.
Linking, Framing and Inlining. Nolo.com's article on links and the law, trademarks, copyright infringement and deep linking.
Linking and Liability. Bitlaw's page on linking, derivative works, trademark infringement, frames, and passing off.
Linking and Liability. Edward A. Cavazos and Coe F. Miles' article from the Richmond Journal of Law and Technology. Direct infringement, third party liability and contributory infringement, fair use, Lanham Act.
Links Liability. CyBarrister's page on Internet linking legal issues.
Linking Rights. Brad Templeton's article.
The No Electronic Theft Act. The text of the law, from UCLA's Cyberspace Law and Policy Institute.
No Electronic Theft Act. The text of the law, at Virtualrecordings.com.
The No Electronic Theft Act. The Department of Justice's information on the act passed in 1997.
Pirated Sites - Examinations of websites which are possibly copying other site designs.
Publisher Perspective. An article by a Simon & Schuster VP.
Recent Linking Issues. An article at Brown Raysman on DeCSS, deep linking, and Ticketmaster.
Technology Law. A collection of articles by Richard Raysman and Peter Brown. DMCA, domain name litigation, Napster, and fair use.
Thinking of Linking?. Anthony Berman's article on "How Links and Frames Can Lead to Trouble in the New Era of the Net."
Web Law FAQ by Oppedahl & Larson. Information that will be helpful to webmasters; covers email, news, MIDI and WAV files, linking, domain names, and protecting your own material.