The Free Expression Policy Project has just published a fully revised and updated edition of "The Progress of Science and Useful Arts"  Why Copyright Today Threatens Intellectual Freedom - a summary of the major controversies over file-sharing, fair use, the ever-receding public domain, the "Digital Millennium Copyright Act," and more.

10 Big Myths about Copyright (especially as pertains to Internet Publication)
Copyright resources from Vanderbilt University
Right and Wrong by John Bloom on NRO

Curator Carrie McLaren of the exibition Illegal Art: Freedom of Expression in the Corporate Age, is hoping to prove that American copyright laws are overly restrictive and outdated.

It looks like Mickey and Goofy will never escape Copyright Prison. Even Superman isn't safe from parody!

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