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Bound by Law (CSPD Comics) - Tales from the Public Domain:
“Bound by Law translates law into plain English and abstract ideas into ‘visual metaphors.’ So the comic's heroine, Akiko, brandishes a laser gun as she fends off a cyclopean 'Rights Monster' - all the while learning copyright law basics, including the line between fair use and copyright infringement.” -Brandt Goldstein, The Wall Street Journal online

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Center for Internet and Society, Stanford
In the heart of the Silicon Valley, legal doctrine is emerging that will determine the course of civil rights and technological innovation for decades to come. The Center for Internet and Society (CIS is at the apex of this evolving area of law.

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Code : Version 2.0. / Lawrence Lessig
"This is a translation of an old book—indeed, in Internet time, it is a translation of an ancient text." That text is Lessig's "Code and Other Laws of Cyberspace." The second version of that book is "Code v2." The aim of Code v2 is to update the earlier work, making its argument more relevant to the current internet. Code v2 was written in part through a collaborative Wiki. That version is still accessible here. Lessig took the Wiki text as of 12/31/05, and then added his own edits. Code v2 is the result. The Wiki text was licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.5 License. So too is the derivative. Reflecting the contributions of the community to this new work, all royalties have been dedicated to Creative Commons."

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Copyright Clearance Center (CCC) 
Millions of people in corporations, universities, law firms and government agencies rely on Copyright Clearance Center to use and share published content with ease and confidence.

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Copyright Law and Policy (U.S. Copyright Office)
"To promote the progress of science and useful arts, by securing for limited times to authors and inventors the exclusive right to their respective writings and discoveries”
(U.S. Constitution, Article I, Section 8)

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Copyright Law in the Electronic Environment
University of Texas System, Office of General Counsel

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Crash Course in Copyright Law
University of Texas System, Office of General Counsel.

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Creative Commons
Creative Commons provides free tools that let authors, scientists, artists, and educators easily mark their creative work with the freedoms they want it to carry.

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Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF)
EFF is a nonprofit group of passionate people — lawyers, technologists, volunteers, and visionaries — working to protect your digital rights

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Free culture : how big media uses technology and the law to lock down culture and control creativity / Lawrence Lessig
"Lawrence Lessig could be called a cultural environmentalist. One of America’s most original and influential public intellectuals, his focus is the social dimension of creativity: how creative work builds on the past and how society encourages or inhibits that building with laws and technologies."

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Internet Archive
"Libraries exist to preserve society's cultural artifacts and to provide access to them. If libraries are to continue to foster education and scholarship in this era of digital technology, it's essential for them to extend those functions into the digital world... The Internet Archive is working to prevent the Internet - a new medium with major historical significance - and other "born-digital" materials from disappearing into the past. Collaborating with institutions including the Library of Congress and the Smithsonian, we are working to preserve a record for generations to come."

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Lessig Blog
Lawrence Lessig is a Professor of Law at Stanford Law School and founder of the school's Center for Internet and Society. This is his blog.

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Stanford University Libraries, Copyright and Fair Use
Stanford University Libraries & Academic Information Resources.