Copyright Seminar
You may contact Maxine Grosshans, the course liaison, for research-related questions at mgrosshans@law.umaryland.edu.
Primary Law | Agencies, Associations, and NGOs | Subscription Databases | Electronic Journals | Additional Electronic Resources | Brief Bibliography of Print Resources | Lexis | Westlaw
Primary Law
Legislative Materials
- United States Constitution
- Thomas
- United States Code
- Congressional Record
- Copyright Statutes (Title 17 of the United States Code)
- Digital Millennium Copyright Act Legislative History
- No Electronic Theft Act Legislative History
- Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Legislative History
Administrative Materials
- Code of Federal Regulations (searchable full text)
- List of Sections Affected
- Federal Register (searchable full text)
- Copyright Office Regulations
- Text of the RIAA/NMPA/HFA Agreement
- Initial
Comments: Effect of the RIAA/NMPA/HFA Agreement on
Inquiry into Digital Phonorecord Deliveries - Joint Statement of RIAA, NMPA, & HFA
Judicial Materials
- Supreme Court Cases from Cornell's Legal Information Institute pages
- Circuit Court cases also from LII
- NOTE: for both more comprehensive and more precise case searches please see the Lexis and Westlaw links below.
- Berkman Center's OPENLAW: Eldred v. Ashcroft Archive (includes amici briefs and press clippings)
- Arizona State University's "Constitutionality of Term Extension" (includes Eldred pleadings from the Federal District Court and Circuit Court of Appeals)
- United States Sentencing Commission's "No Electronic Theft Act Policy Team Report, February 1999"
Foreign & International Legal Materials
- Berne Convention for the Protection of Literary and Artistic Works
- Geneva Convention for the Protection of Producers of Phonograms Against Unauthorized Duplication of Their Phonograms
- Rome Convention for the Protection of Performers, Producers of Phonograms and Broadcasting Organizations
- WIPO Copyright Treaty
- WIPO Performances and Phonograms Treaty
- Directive 96/9/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 11 March 1996 on the legal protection of databases
Agencies, Associations, and Non-Governmental Organizations
- American Bar Association -Section of Intellectual Property
- American Library Association
- American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers
- Association of American Publishers
- BMI (an American performing rights organization that represents approximately 300,000 songwriters, composers and music publishers in all genres of music)
- Copyright Society of the USA
- Digital Future Coalition
- DVD/DeCSS Litigation Archive maintained by 2600.com
- Electronic Frontier Foundation
- Harry Fox Agency
- Home Recording Rights Coalition
- Motion Picture Association of America
- National Music Publishers Association
- National Writers Union
- Recording Industry Association of America
- SESAC (a performing rights organization)
- Software and Information Industry Association
- UCLA Online Institute for Cyberspace Law and Policy -Archives
- United States Copyright Office
- WIPO - World Intellectual Property Organization
- World Trade Organization (WTO) - Intellectual Property Site
Subscription Databases
- Collection of Laws for Internet Access (CLEA)
- Intellectual Property Library (BNA)
- Pike
& Fischer Internet Law and Regulation
Electronic Journals
- Berkeley Technology Law Journal
- Duke Law & Technology Review
- Electronic Commerce & Law Report (BNA)
- Intellectual Property & Technology Forum at Boston College
- Michigan Telecommunications & Technology Law Review
- Patent, Trademark & Copyright Journal (BNA)
- Review of Intellectual Property Law (John Marshall Law School)
- Stanford Technology Law Review
- Texas Intellectual Property Law Journal
- UCLA Journal of Law & Technology
- U.S.
Law Week (BNA)
Additional Electronic Resources
- CALI lessons related to copyright:
- Cornell University Legal Information Institute: Law about Copyright
- Cyber Telecom. Intellectual Property
- FindLaw
Copyright Law Guide
Brief Bibliography
The following is a partial list of the Copyright Seminar related materials available in the Thurgood Marshall Law Library. The material is listed by main entry with the title and/or author information in bold type. The Library also contains a complete set of United States Codes, Statutes at Large, Code of Federal Regulations, and the Federal Register.
Looseleaf Services:
BNA Media Law Reporter. [Washington:] Bureau of National Affairs.
GEN STACKS KF2750.A7M4
CCH Copyright Law Reporter. Chicago, Ill.: Commerce Clearing House,
c1980- .
GEN STACKS KF2991.5.C6
CCH Guide to Computer Law. Chicago, Ill.: Commerce Clearing House, c1989-
.
KF390.5.C6G85 1989
Books and Treatises:
Bruce A. Lehman. The Conference on Fair Use: Final Report to the Commissioner on the Conclusion of the Conference on Fair Use. Washington, DC: Working Group on Intellectual Property Rights of the Information Infrastructure Task Force, [1998]. GEN STACKS KF3030.1.L44 1998
TyAnna K. Herrington. Controlling Voices: Intellectual Property, Humanistic Studies, and the Internet. Carbondale : Southern Illinois University Press, 2001. GEN STACKS KF3030.1.H47 2001
Stephen E. Siwek. Copyright Industries in the U.S. Economy : the 2000 Report. Washington, DC : International Intellectual Property Alliance, 2000. GEN STACKS KF2995.S59 2000
John W. Hazard, Jr. Copyright Law in Business and Practice. St. Paul, MN: West Group, 1998- . GEN STACKS KF2994.H35 1998
Siva Vaidhyanathan. Copyrights and Copywrongs: the Rise of Intellectual Property and How It Threatens Creativity. New York: New York University Press, 2001. GEN STACKS Z642.V35 2001
Ruth Towse. Creativity, Incentive, and Reward : an Economic Analysis of Copyright and Culture in the Information Age. Cheltenham, UK; Northampton, MA : Edward Elgar, 2001. GEN STACKS Z581.T69 2001
Albrecht Reber. Film Copyright, Contracts, and Profit Participation. Weinheim; Cambridge : Wiley-VCH, 2000. GEN STACKS K1474.A20R12 2000.
Melville B. Nimmer & David Nimmer. Nimmer on Copyright: a Treatise on the Law of Literary, Musical and Artistic Property, and the Protection of Ideas. New York: M. Bender, 1978- . GEN STACKS KF2991.5.N5 1982
Mark A. Fischer, E. Gabriel Perle, & John Taylor Williams. Perle &
Williams on Publishing Law. Gaithersburg [Md.]: Aspen Law & Business,
1999- . GEN STACKS KF2750.P4323 v. 1; GEN STACKS KF2750.P4323 v. 2
M. William Krasilovsky and Sidney Shemel. This Business of Music: the Definitive
Guide to the Music Industry. New York: Billboard Books, 2000. GEN STACKS
ML3790.S5 2000
Jörg Reinbothe & Silke von Lewinski. The WIPO treaties 1996 : the WIPO Copyright Treaty and the WIPO Performances and Phonograms Treaty : commentary and legal analysis. [London] : Butterworths, 2002. GEN STACKS K1401 1996.W67 2002
Government & Legislative History Documents:
Alan Latman and James F. Lightstone, eds. The Kaminstein Legislative History Project : a Compendium and Analytical Index of Materials Leading to the Copyright Act of 1976. Littleton, Colo.: Published for the Copyright Society of the U.S.A. and New York University School of Law by F.B. Rothman, 1981. GEN STACKS KF2989.56.A16K35 (4 vols.) (This is a compiled legislative history of the 1976 Act.)
House Committee on International Relations. Subcommittee on International Economic
Policy and Trade. Costs of Internet piracy for the music and software industries
: hearing before the Subcommittee on International Economic Policy and Trade
of the Committee on International Relations, House of Representatives, One Hundred
Sixth Congress, second session, July 19, 2000. Washington : U.S. G.P.O.
: [U.S. G.P.O., Supt. of Docs., Congressional Sales Office, distributor], 2000
[i.e. 2001]. GOVDOC Y 4.IN 8/16:IN 8/20.
Senate Committee on the Judiciary. Music on the Internet: Is There an Upside
to Downloading? : Hearing before the Committee on the Judiciary, United States
Senate, One Hundred Sixth Congress, Second Session, July 11, 2000. Washington
: U.S. G.P.O. : For sale by the Supt. of Docs., U.S. G.P.O., [Congressional
Sales Office], 2001. GOVDOC Y 4.J 89/2:S.HRG.106-1060. Also available electronically
at http://frwebgate.access.gpo.gov/cgi-bin/getdoc.cgi?dbname=106_senate_hearings&docid=f:74728.pdf.
House Committee on the Judiciary, Subcommittee on Courts and Intellectual Property. Copyrighted Webcast Programming on the Internet: Hearing before the Subcommittee on Courts and Intellectual Property of the Committee on the Judiciary, House of Representatives, One Hundred Sixth Congress, Second Session, June 15, 2000. Washington : U.S. G.P.O. : For sale by the U.S. G.P.O., Supt. of Docs., Congressional Sales Office, 2000. GOVDOC Y 4.J 89/1:106/119.
House Committee on the Judiciary, Subcommittee on Courts and Intellectual Property. Collections of Information Antipiracy Act: Hearing before ... 106th Congress, 1st Session, on H.R. 354, March 18, 1999. Washington, DC : U.S. G.P.O., 2000. GOVDOC Y4.J 89/1:106-54.
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