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Theme 4 - What is the impact of copyright law, both at international and national levels, on education and research?
Resources
- Intellectual property treaties administered by WIPO
- Berne Convention for the Protection of Literary and Artistic Works
- WIPO Copyright Treaty (WCT)
- WIPO Performances and Phonograms Treaty (WPPT)
- WIPO Survey on Implementation Provisions of the WCT and the WPP
- WIPO Study on Limitations and Exceptions of Copyright and Related Rights in the Digital Environment, prepared by S. Ricketson (WIPO/SCCR/9/7, April 5, 2003)
- WIPO Study on Current Developments in the Field of Digital Rights Management, prepared by J. Cunard, K. Hill and C. Barlas (WIPO/SCCR/10/2 Rev, May 4, 2004)
- WIPO Article - Business Success, Copyright and the Digital Environment (SME-Article E/30467) (Adobe PDF)
- WIPO Article - Copyright Protection: Reaping the Benefits of Literary or Artistic Creativity (SME-Article/30414) (Adobe PDF)
- WIPO Frequently Asked Questions: Copyright and Related Rights for SMEs
- The WIPO Workshop on Implementation Issues of the WCT and the WPPT
- Seminar on the WIPO Copyright Treaty (WCT) and the WIPO Performances and Phonograms Treaty (WPPT): Opportunities and Challenges
- WIPO Information Meeting on Digital Content for the Visually Impaired
- Bibek Debroy & Julian Morris, "Open to Development: Open-Source Software and Economic Development" (2004) (Adobe PDF)
- David Evans & Anne Layne-Farrar, "Software Patents and Open Source: The Battle Over Intellectual Property Rights" Virginia Journal of Law and Technology, Vol 9(10) Summer 2004 (Adobe PDF)
- Mihály Ficsor, "The Law of Copyright and the Internet: The 1996 WIPO Treaties, their Interpretation and Implementation" (Oxford University Press, London, 2002)
- Lucie Guibault, (supervised by Prof. Bernt Hugenholtz), "The nature and scope of limitations and exceptions to copyright and neighbouring rights with regard to general interest missions for the transmission of knowledge: prospects for their adaptation to the digital environment"
- Carolyn Kenwood, "A Business Case Study of Open Source Software" Mitre Corporation (July 2001)
- Joshua Lerner, "The Economics of Technology Sharing: Open Source and Beyond" Social Science Research Network (November 2004)
- Joshua Lerner & John Tirole, "The Scope of Open Source Licensing", Social Science Research Network (November 2002)
- Lawrence Lessig, "Free Culture: How Big Media Uses Technology and the Law to Lock Down Culture and Control Creativity" (Penguin Press, New York, 2004)
- Geidy Lung (WIPO), "Copyright exceptions for the visually impaired international perspective" World Library and Information Congress 70th IFLA General Conference and Council, August 2004 (See Adobe PDF)
- Jason Matusow, "A Commercial Perspective: Microsoft Shared Source" (March 2005)
- Martin Senftleben, "Copyright, Limitations and the Three-Step Test" (Aspen Publishers, 2004)
- J.T. Westermeier & Katherine C. Spelman, "Open Source Software" (2004) Piper Rudnick, LLP
- David Wheeler, "Why Open Source Software/Free Software (OSS/FS, FLOSS, or FOSS)? Look at the Numbers!" Revised May 9, 2005
- Creative Commons - Legal Concepts (The Public Domain, The Commons, Open Content etc.)
- Creative Commons White Paper "Cultivating the Public Domain"
- Project Gutenberg (Internet-based producer of free e-books)
- Center for the Public Domain
- University of Houston Libraries list of free Scholarly Journals Distributed Via the World Wide Web
- GNU Free Documentation License
- The GNU Operating System
- Free Software Foundation
- Open Source Initiative
- Links to resources on legality of the General Public License (GPL)
- Microsoft Shared Source Initiative: Commercial Software
- United Nations Commission for Trade and Development (UNCTAD) - International Centre for Trade and Sustainable Development (ICTSD) Project on Intellectual Property Rights and Sustainable Development (May 2004)
