Links

  • US Copyright Office  www.copyright.gov
  • BMI  www.bmi.com
  • ASCAP  www.ascap.com
  • RIAA  www.riaa.com
  • New Yorkers for Fair Use  www.nyfairuse.org
  • Union for Public Domain  www.public-domain.org
  • IP Justice  www.ipjustice.org
  • Electronic Frontier Foundation  www.eff.org
  • Creative Commons  http://creativecommons.org

PUBLICATIONS:

"Copyright and Motion Picture/Television Productions: Understanding, Acquiring, Protecting, Licensing, Sharing and Abusing Intellectual Property Rights Under American Law". By Kohel M. Haver, Attorney

(Publication available for purchase through the Portland Community Media and the Alliance for Community Media)

"Will Fair Use Survive? Free Expression in the Age of Copyright Control"
Brennan Center for Justice
www.fepproject.org/policyreports/WillFairUseSurvive.pdf

"Digital Futures: a need-to-know policy guide for independent filmmakers"
Center for Social Media at American University
www.centerforsocialmedia.org/resources/publications/digital_futures_a_need_to_know_policy_guide_for_independent_filmmakers

"Documentary Filmmakers Statement of Best Practices in Fair Use"
www.centerforsocialmedia.org/resources/publications/documentary_filmmakers_statement_of_best_practices_in_fair_use/

"Repurposing and Rights: A Non-Profit Summit"
A report by Patricia Aufderheide, Center for Social Media
www.centerforsocialmedia.org/resources/publications/repurposing_and_rights/

"Beyond Broadcast: Reinventing Public Media in a Participatory Culture"
Rapporteur Report, Harvard Law School, May, 2006
www.centerforsocialmedia.org/resources/publications/beyond_broadcast_report/

"Bound By Law? Tales from the Public Domain"
www.law.duke.edu./cspd/comics/

"What Every Citizen Should Know about DRM, aka Digital Rights Management"
www.publicknowledge.org

Digital Rights Management
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_Rights_Management

EXTRAS:

  • Illegal Arts  www.illegal-art.org
    Public Domain Audio Information - Library of Congress  www.loc.gov
  • UC Berkeley  www.lib.berkeley.edu/MUSI/
  • Yale University  www.library.yale.edu/musiclib/
  • Public Domain Video Information -
  • Library of Congress  www.loc.gov
  • Prelinger Archives  www.archive.org/movies
  • NASA  www.nasa.gov/multimedia
  • Negative Land  www.negativeland.com
  • Rick Prelinger Film Archives and Excellent Source for film and music content
    www.archive.org
    www.panix.com/~footage/prelarch.html
  • Creative Rights and You!is an educational forum presented by Oregon Alliance to Reform Media www.oregonarm.org
  • Bus Uncle
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EsYRQkmVifg&search=bus%20uncle
  • Gimmie the Mermaid http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-7864868134002863180
  • llegal Art Site http://www.illegal-art.org/video/index.html