Additional Resources

• Copyright Office Information Circulars
  The U.S. Copyright Office publishes information circulars on a wide variety of copyright topics. These are available in Adobe Acrobat format.
• The National Academy of Science has published recommendations with regard to protecting intellectual property rights and public access to electronic information.
• ASCAP, BMI, and SESAC are performing rights organizations that represent the music rights of songwriters and publishers.
• The Recording Industry Association of America, RIAA, represents and protects the intellectual property rights of music production companies.
• The Copyright Web Site, developed by Benedict O'Mahoney seeks to encourage discourse and invite solutions to the myriad of copyright tangles that currently permeate the Web.
• Articles on Intellectual Property compiled by Hal R. Varian, School of Information Management and Systems, University of California Berkeley
• The Digital Dilemma: Intellectual Property in the Information Age is a report of the Committee on Intellectual Property Rights and the Emerging Information Infrastructure.
• Who Owns Online Courses and Course Materials? Intellectual Property Policies for a New Learning Environment, by Carol Twig, sponsored by the Pew Learning and Technology Program 2000.
• United State Patent and Trademark Office
• An all-encompassing site for patent and invention resources is the Patent Cafe. It includes links to how-to information, patent searching, invention groups, government agencies, and international inventors.