1. Anatomy of a Copyright Coup: Jamaica's Public Domain Plundered
   Resource Type: Article
   Published: 2015
   A bill extending the term of copyright by an additional 45 years -- almost doubling it, in the case of corporate and government works -- sailed through the Jamaican Senate on June 26, after having passed the House of Representatives on June 9.
2. As ACTA talks resume, new leak confirms fears about threat to online free expression
   Sources News Release
   Resource Type: Article
   Published: 2010
   Reporters Without Borders urges ACTA negotiators not to sacrifice Internet free speech and access to online information to the desire to combat piracy and the counterfeiting of copyrighted works
3. Association of Universities and Colleges of Canada
   Media Profile in Sources
   Resource Type: Organization
   
4. Avoiding Gripes About Your Gripe (or Parody) Site
   Resource Type: Article
   Published: 2009
   Here's a story we hear a lot at EFF: You think BadCo, Inc. is a bad actor and you've developed a really cool site to tell the world why. Maybe just by griping about them or maybe through a bit of parody. Fast forward two weeks: you're basking in the pleasure of calling BadCo out when bam! You find out your site's been shut down.
5. Battle rages over electronic publishing rights
   Resource Type: Article
   Published: 1996
   
6. Brazen, extortionate: Photographer sues Getty Images for $1bn after copyright claim on her work
   Resource Type: Article
   Published: 2016
   Photographer Carol M. Highsmith is suing Getty Images for $1 billion in damages for using her images after she was slapped with a lawsuit from a company which screamed infringement after she published one of her own photos on her website. It turns out Highsmith had no idea Getty was making any money off of her 18,755 photos, which, as she specified on her website, were donated "copyright-free" to the US Library of Congress. This means they were to be available to the public freely.
7. Canadian Federation of Students (CFS)
   Media Profile in Sources
   Resource Type: Organization
   
8. Canadian Information Sharing Service
   Volume 3, Number 1 - February 1978
   Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
   Published: 1978
   
9. Canadian Publishers' Council
   Media Profile in Sources
   Resource Type: Organization
   
10. Challengers vow to publish Anne Frank diaries as foundation moves to keep control of copyright
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2015
    Charity that guards world-renowned account of a Jewish girl's life in hiding from the Nazis says copyright - which some argue ends this year - extends from father's death.
11. Copyleft
    Sources Select Resources Encyclopedia
    Resource Type: Article
    A play on the word copyright to describe the practice of using copyright law to remove restrictions on distributing copies and modified versions of a work for others and requiring that the same freedoms be preserved in modified versions.
12. Copyright
    Guide for Canadian Libraries
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1999
    
13. Copyright/Copyleft?
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2004
    
14. Copyright policies threaten internet use in Panama and Colombia
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2012
    After years of being one of the most progressive regions in the world in terms of balanced copyright policy, Latin America is unfortunately sliding into copyright maximalism, enacting increasingly restrictive copyright enforcement measures into their federal laws.
15. The Cultural Industries in Canada
    Problems, Policies and Prospects
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1996
    Dorland discusses policy problems specific to the Canadian cultural industries that produce cultural commodities, such as books, films and television programs.
16. Defend Your Right to Repair!
    Resource Type: Article
    Software is subject to copyright, and than means that, as a rule, you might own your device but you only license the software in it. And that license (often called an “End User License Agreement”) is likely to come with any number of restrictions on your ability to tinker with your stuff.
17. Facebook forces Instagram users to allow it to sell their uploaded photos
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2012
    Move means pictures could be used in advertising, with all payments going to social media giant.
18. Finally! Victory for Free Speech in Garcia v. Google
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2015
    Free speech must remain free; regardless of how nasty the message may be. This is a story about the peservation of free speech and the abuses of copyright law.
19. French farmers will have to pay to use their own seeds
    'Compulsory voluntary contribution' to seed companies extended to 20 more types of crops, and use of saved seeds for other crops banned
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2012
    French government to begin cracking down on enforcing plant breeders' rights -- farmers will have to pay to use farm-saved seed.
20. IFJ Calls on Writers to Demand Their Rights from Google
    Sources News Release
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2009
    the International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) has called on all journalists who have had their books scanned by Google through its Google Book Search to claim their rights to payment.
21. IFJ Denounces Attempts by Freedom of Expression Group to Weaken Copyright Protection for Journalists
    Sources News Release
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2013
    The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) has today denounced a set of principles issued by Article 19 to unduly restrict creators' copyright protection.
22. Important Win for Fair Use in ‘Dancing Baby’ Lawsuit
    Sources News Release
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2015
    A federal appeals court in San Francisco today affirmed that copyright holders must consider whether a use of material is fair before sending a takedown notice. The ruling came in Lenz v. Universal, often called the “dancing baby” lawsuit.
23. Intellectual Property: A Copyright Tutorial
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 1997
    
24. Intellectual Property: Cancopy and Photocopying
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 1997
    
25. Intellectual Property: Electronic Rights (and Wrongs)
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 1997
    
26. IntelligentSearch.ca
    Resource Type: Website
    Published: 2017
    A web portal featuring topics related to research and the Internet. The home page features a selection of recent and important articles. A search feature, subject index, and other research tools make it possible to find additional resources and information.
27. Know Your Digital Rights, Photographers
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2010
    
28. Marx and Engels Belong to the Workers of the World
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2014
    Lawrence & Wishart, the British publisher of the Collected Works of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels (MECW), has compelled the Marxists Internet Archive to remove free digital versions of this 50-volume treasure from its Web site. This step is meant to further the publisher’s pursuit of private, profitable licenses with paying customers.
29. Microsoft accuses Microsoft of copyright infringement, asks Google to scrub search links
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2013
    Over the past year, copyright holders such as Microsoft, the Recording Industry Association of America, NBC, Walt Disney, and others have started blasting Google with vast numbers of takedown requests. Copyright holders hit the search engine with 3.5 to 4.5 million takedown requests each and every week. Between January and July 2013, Google erased more than 100 million links from the web as a result of DMCA takedown requests.
30. Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - April 21, 2018
    Their Interent or Ours?
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 2018
    The Internet, which was at one time a free and open space for sharing information and ideas, has been privatized and twisted to serve the profit-making agenda of huge corporations, working hand-in-glove with governments which want to suppress opposition and alternatives. What can we do about it? Is it our Internet or theirs?
31. The Oxford Guide to Library Research - Review
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 1998
    An excellent guide to doing research, explaining research methods and strategies and their strengths and weaknesses of. See review in Sources Select Resources.
32. Patent Absurdity
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2005
    If patent law had been applied to novels in the 1880s, great books would not have been written. If the EU applies it to software, every computer user will be restricted.
33. Patent Folly
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 1995
    The misuse of patents rights and associated dangers.
34. Permissions and documentation: When Not to Worry
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 1999
    
35. Release of the Full TPP Text After Five Years of Secrecy Confirms Threats to Users' Rights
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2015
    Trade offices involved in negotiating the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) agreement have finally released all 30 chapters of the trade deal today, a month after announcing the conclusion of the deal in Atlanta. Some of the more dangerous threats to the public's rights to free expression, access to knowledge, and privacy online are contained in the copyright provisions in the Intellectual Property (IP) chapter. Now that the entire agreement is published, we can see how other chapters of the agreement contain further harmful rules that undermine our rights online and over our digital devices and content.
36. A Response to Lawrence and Wishart
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2014
    Lawrence & Wishart, who hold the copyright for the Marx Engels Collected Works, have directed Marxists Internet Archive to delete all texts originating from MECW.
37. Saskatchewan Institute of Applied Science and Technology
    Media Profile in Sources
    Resource Type: Organization
    
38. TPP Undermines User Control and That's Disastrous for Accessibility
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2015
    The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) threatens all users' ability to access information and participate in culture and innovation online, but it's especially severe for those with disabilities or who otherwise depend on content in accessible formats. That's because it doubles down on broken policies that were heavily lobbied for by Hollywood and other major publishers that impede the distribution of accessible works.
39. Trade agreements and the corporate war on democracy
    Introduction to the November 7, 2015 issue of Other Voices
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2015
    The Trans-Pacific Partnership, negotiated in secret, and now scheduled to be rubber-stamped by national governments on a take-it-or-leave-it basis, is best understood as a major milestone in the long-term war waged by the corporate elite against any form of democracy. It gives corporations the power to block any environmental protections or health and safety legislation that could be interpreted as interfering with a corporation's 'right' to make a profit by doing whatever it wants.
40. Without Intellectual Property Day
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2014
    As the saying goes, though: when you're a hammer, everything looks like a nail. For the World Intellectual Property Organization, it may seem like creativity and "intellectual property" are inextricably linked. That's not the case. In the spirit of adding to the conversation, we'd like to honor all the creativity and industry that is happening without a dependence on a system intellectual property.
41. World Copyright Day: Stop Unfair Contracts for Journalists
    Sources News Release
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2009
    The European Federation of Journalists (EFJ) condemns the widespread use of unfair contracts by media employers that deprive journalists from their authors' rights.

Experts on Copyright in the Sources Directory

1. Internet Archive
2. Open Music Archive
3. World Intellectual Property Organization