Special thank you to Professor Keith Aoki of the University of Oregon School of Law

Patent & Trademark Ownership — U.S. Government Resources

• U.S. Patent & Trademark Office

  • Rules of Practice and Federal Statutes (Trademarks)

  • Trademark Manual of Examining Procedure

  • Trademark Registration of Internet Domain Names

  • TTAB Manual of Procedure

  • Trademark Electronic Search System (TESS)
    

• P.L. 105-330, Trademark Law Treaty Implementation Act (Oct. 30, 1998)

• P.L. 106-43, Trademark Amendments Act of 1999 (Aug. 5, 1999)

• P.L. 106-113 (Nov. 29, 1999), contains S. 1948, Intellectual Property and Communications Omnibus Reform Act of 1999, which contains S. 1255, Trademark Cyberpiracy Prevention Act

• Final Decisions of the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board (TTAB)
  
  

The Copyright Statute

• Title 17 of the U.S. Code (as of 07/01)
  

• Recent Amendments
  

• P.L. 106-379, Work Made for Hire and Copyright Corrections Act of 2000 (enacted Oct. 27, 2000)
  

• P.L. 106-160, Digital Theft Deterrence and Copyright Damages Improvement Act (enacted Dec. 09, 1999)
  

• Intellectual Property and Communications Omnibus Reform Act (enacted Nov. 29, 1999)
  

• P.L. 105-304, The Digital Millennium Copyright Act (enacted Oct. 28, 1998)
  

• The Copyright Office's summary of the DMCA
  

• P.L. 105-298, The Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act (enacted Oct. 27, 1998)
  
  

Other Copyright Resources on the Internet

• United States Copyright Office homepage
  

• Standford University Library Copyright & Fair Use Site
  

• Copyright Society of the U.S.A.
  

• Professor Laura Gassaway's Chart: "When Works Pass Into the Public Domain"
  
  

International Copyright Resources

• International and Comparative Copyright Resources
  

• The World Intellectual Property Organization Home Page
  

• The Berne Convention for the Protection of Literary and Artistic Works
  

• The WIPO COPYRIGHT TREATY
  

• The WIPO PERFORMANCES AND PHONOGRAMS TREATY
  

• E©up (European Bureau of Library, Information and Documentation Associations copyright law resource page)
  

• Max Planck Institute's collection of international and foreign Intellectual Property law links
  

• Canadian Intellectual Property Office Copyrights page.
  

• Australian Attorney General's Australian Copyright News
  
  

Partisan Organizations with Copyright Agendas

• Motion Picture Association of America
  

• The Harvard Berkman Center's Copyright Commons
  

• Association of Research Libraries
  

• Association of American Publishers
  

• Digital Future Coalition
  

• Software & Information Industry Association
  

• Free Software Foundation
  

• Software Industry Issues
  

• Computer & Communications Industry Association
  

• ASCAP, BMI, and SESAC
  

• National Music Publishers Association
  

• The Home Recording Rights Coalition
  

• The Recording Industry Association of America
  

• Recording Artists Coalition
  

• The Future of Music
  

• Gnutella News
  

• Copyright Clearance Center
  

International Resources

• Paris Convention for the Protection of Industrial Property
  

• General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT), including Annex 1C: Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPs)
  

• World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO)
  

• Oxford Intellectual Property Research Centre at St. Peter's College - Homepage
  

Law School Offerings

• Brooklyn Law School: Internet Law (Prof. Paul Schwartz)
  

• Chapman University: Internet Law (Prof. Tom Bell)
  

• Duke Law School: Professor James Boyle
  

• Edinburgh University: I.T. & Law (co-instructors Lilian Edwards and Charlotte Waelde)
  

• Fordham University: Information Technology, Internet and Law (Prof. Joel Reidenberg)
  

• George Washington University: Law of Cyberspace (Prof. Dawn Nunziato)
  

• Georgia State University: Law and the Internet (Prof. Patrick Wiseman)
  

• Georgetown University Law Center:

  • Law of Cyberspace (Prof. Michael Songer)

  • Seminar: Cyberspace and the Law (Prof. Julie Cohen)

  • The Law of Information Privacy (Prof. Marc Rotenberg)

• Harvard Law School: Berkman Center for Internet & Society:
  

  • Internet and Society (Prof. Jonathan Zittrain)

  • Internet Business Law and Strategy (Profs. Jean Camp and Jonathan Zittrain)

  • Exploding Internet (Prof. Charles Nesson)
    

• John Marshall Law School:

  • Cyberspace Law (Prof. David Sorkin)

• Lewis & Clark College Northwestern School of Law:

  • Cyberspace Law (Prof. Lydia Loren)

  • Modular self-study materials: Learning Law in Cyberspace (Profs. Keith Aoki, Ann Bartow, Diane Cabell, Maggie Chon, Kenneth Crews, Stacey Dogan, Eric Easton, Lew Gibbons, Jay Kesan, and Lydia Loren)

• New York University:

  • Information Law and Policy in the Digital Environment (Prof. Yochai Benkler)

  • Colloquium on Innovation Policy: Remapping Intellectual Property Law for a Changing Business Environment (Profs. Rochelle Dreyfuss and Jessica Litman)
    

• Rutgers University Law School (Camden) Cyberlaw: Fall / Spring (Visiting Asst. Prof. Rod Dixon)

• Santa Clara University: Cyberspace Law (Prof. Eric Goldman)

• Seattle University: Internet Law (Prof. Margaret Chon)

• Stanford Law School:

  • Writings (Prof. Lawrence Lessig)

  • Electronic Commerce (Prof. Margaret Jane Radin)

  • Stanford Center for Internet & Society

• Stetson University Prof. Peter Fitzgerald

• Temple University Law of Cyberspace Seminar (Prof. David Post)

• University of California-Berkeley:

  • Cyberlaw (Prof. Pamela Samuelson - School of Information Management and Systems)

  • Introduction to Intellectual Property (Prof. Mark Lemley)

• University of California-Los Angeles: Communications Law & Policy (Prof. Jerry Kang)

• UCLA Online Institute for Cyberspace Law and Policy

• University of Iowa: Cyberspace Law Seminar (Nicholas Johnson)

• University of Kansas: Topics in the Law of Cyberspace (Prof. Kim Dayton)

• University of Montreal: (Prof. Ejan Mackaay)

• University of New South Wales: Cyberspace law (Prof. Graham Greenleaf)

• University of Texas: Intellectual Property in Cyberspace (Prof. Tony Reese)

Other Related (Non-Law) Courses

• Massachusetts Institute of Technology: Ethics and Law on the Electronic Frontier (Prof. Hal Abelson)

• University of California School of Information: Copyright and Community: The Future of the Information Society (Profs. Peter Lyman and Pamela Samuelson)