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10 Big Myths about Copyright Explained

This is an excellent and comprehensive list regarding copyright compliance and infringement, with an emphasis on the need to protect the commercial value of creative works.

Copyright Fundamentals

This award winning site has sections on audio, visual and digital arts, copyright basics, and resources. The copyright basics section provides basic information on copyright and fair use.

FindLaw's Intellectual Property Page

Truly comprehensive!

Freeadvice.com (copyright section)

This site has copyright books, legal links, a lawyer directory, and can be search by keyword for information.

Harvard University Berman Center

This is described as "an experiment in crafting legal arguments in an open forum. With your assistance, we will develop arguments, draft pleadings, and edit briefs in public, online." It is believed that by using the vast resources of contributors, including non-lawyers, that a case is strengthened. This site has many links and other intellectual property cases that it requests help in crafting.

Internet Law Library - Pritchard Law Webs

This is a collection of many kinds of sites, national and international including searchable U.S. code and a collection of laws of other nations, as well as treaties and international law

Legal Information Institute at Cornell Law School

Very good collection of federal and international law, case law, and other resources.

The American Intellectual Property Law Association

This is the external links section of this website. It has several national, international, and organization links.

U.S. House of Representatives Internet Law Library - Intellectual Property

Information of copyrights, patents, and trademarks, intellectual property law collections by various copyright attorneys, some international copyright laws, various legal articles, the NII "Green Paper", and other general legal resources.

U.S. Patent, Trademark, & Copyright Information, Franklin Pierce Law Center

Basic information for artists, inventors, programmers & small business owners, related web sources, information for the legal profession.

World Wide Web Virtual Library: Law; Intellectual Property

Indiana University School of Law- Bloomington. Good resources for legal scholars.

Yahoo's Index of Intellectual Property Resources

This site has excellent resources for copyright topics.

Yahoo's Index of Intellectual Property Copyright Resources

An updated listing of various copyright resources, nationally and internationally. Because this site does not have authoritative reviewing mechanisms, some of the information will be unverifiable, unauthoritative, opinion. However, some of the resources are of interest, particularly because of its international coverage.