Here are five of the best copyright resources on the web:
Plagiarism Today
Plagiarism Today is an awesome blog that has a ton of great copyright information, and it even has some sample takedown letters and cease and desist orders amung other things.
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Jonathan (the owner) is also a co-host of the Copyright 2.0 podcast.
EFF
Whenever you hear about copyright/trademark issues you should think about the Electronic Frontier Foundation. If you ever have a major issue with a corporation and can’t afford a lawyer or need to get information, let them know. They may help you out. They even have a section of their site targeted toward bloggers.
Chilling Effects
Chilling Effects is where a lot of DMCA notices are posted. Even Google posts most notices they receive on the site. If you don’t know how to write a DMCA notice, then why not take a look at notices written by lawyers?
U.S. Copyright Office
Of course the copyright office has a ton of great information. Although some sections of it are very vague, it gives you the general idea of issues.
Performancing Legal Issues Forum
Although I am not a member of it, I have been creeping around the Performancing legal issues forum for a while now. Most of the information posted can be found on the other sites I listed above, the legal issues forum has some little gems of information and more importantlly - people’s experiences with legal issues.
Please subscribe, or else I will cry. Do you really want to make a programmer cry?
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