 resources
This
page highlights some major points of entry for understanding
copyright and industrial prperty, including online resources,
printed guides and journals.
It covers -
Other pages in the guide point to papers, industry studies,
government reports and other writing of particular value.
Australian sites
Within Australia four outstanding intellectual property
resources are:
the
Australian Copyright Council (ACC)
site, noted on the preceding page of this guide
the
IMAGO APIPLI Multimedia Law Website (IMLW)
is being developed by the IMAGO Multimedia Centre and
the Asia Pacific Intellectual Property Law Institute
(APIPLI)
at Murdoch University
the
Australian Intellectual Property Law Locus (IPLocus).
Developed by Anne Fitzgerald and Peter Coroneos, the
site has not been updated recently but draws together
a wide range of legislation, court reports, articles
and other material relating to copyright, patents, trademarks,
designs, trade secrets and other aspects of IP
the
IP Australia site,
concerned with industrial property such as patents,
trademarks and designs
At
a somewhat more rarified level is the Intellectual Property
Research Institute (IPRIA)
at Melbourne University.
overseas
Overseas sites of particular interest include
Max
Planck Institute for Intellectual Property, Competition
& Tax Law (here)
Queen Mary Intellectual Property Research Institute
at the University of London (here)
Centre of Intellectual Property & Information Law
at the Faculty of Law, University of Cambridge (here)
Oxford Intellectual Property Research Centre (here)
Shepherd & Wedderburn Centre for Research into Intellectual
Property & Technology at Edinburgh University (here)
Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard
University (here)
Berkeley Center for Law and Technology at the University
of California, Berkeley (here)
Centre for Innovation Law & Policy at the University
of Toronto (here)
Australian manuals and guides
Particular aspects of copyright, such as music and
the visual arts, have been the subject of guides by Shane
Simpson and others, although most are showing their age.
The Australian Museums Online initiative provides access
to the short Copyright Guidelines
For Museums & Galleries In A Digital Environment
(note that it predates the recent Digital Agenda legislation).
We strongly recommend the series of information sheets
- accessible online - and the more detailed guides published
by the Australian Copyright Council (ACC).
overseas manuals and guides
Overseas we like The Copyright Book: A Practical Guide
(Cambridge: MIT Press 1999), a lucid one-volume work for
US readers by William Strong, and the Friends of Active
Copyright Education (FACE)
online resource centre. We've noted Strong's 1995 article
on Copyright in the New World of Electronic Publishing
in the excellent Journal of Electronic Publishing.
Intellectual Property: A Managers Guide (Maidenhead:
McGraw-Hill 1991) is a collection of papers edited by
Vivien Irish. Not as authoritative or entertaining as
Strong, but recommended for its matter-of-fact approach
to the EU regime.
Neil Sullivan's Technology Transfer (Cambridge:
Cambridge Uni Press 1995) is a crisp introduction to identifying,
valuing and marketing industrial property.
journals, newsgroups and blogs
There has been a wave of new intellectual property
journals over the past two decade, as copyright law -
and more broadly industrial property law - shed its fusty
image.
Journals of particular interest for Australian law include
-
- Australian
Intellectual Property Journal (AIPJ) - articles
and case notes
- Copyright
Reporter - articles, case notes and news
- Intellectual
Property Forum - papers of the Intellectual Property
Society of Australia
- Intellectual
Property Journal (IPJ) - articles regarding Canadian
IP law
- Intellectual
Property Quarterly (IPQ) - detailed articles with
a UK focus, under auspices of UK Intellectual Property
Institute
- European
Intellectual Property Review (EIPR) - articles,
case notes and reviews
- International
Review of Industrial Property & Copyright Law
(IIC) - articles, case notes and reviews, under auspices
of Max Planck Institute for Intellectual Property, Competition
and Tax Law
Among new kids on the block the Perth-based intellectual
property Digital
Technology Law Journal is worth reading.
The UK-based Copyright World (CWorld)
offers a monthly email bulletin on international copyright
developments.
We'll be adding to the following list of online (free)
journals that specialise in IP or have a strong interest
in copyright:
Digital
Technology Law Journal (DTLJ)
- is a 'digital IP' journal from the Asia Pacific
Intellectual Property Law Institute at Murdoch University,
developers of the multimedia law website noted above.
The Murdoch E-Law Journal (ELaw)
is also worth perusal
Intellectual
Property Magazine (IPMag)
and Intellectual Property News (IPN)
are publications from two US law firms
Journal
of Law & Information Science (JLIS)
and the Journal of Information, Law & Technology
(JILT)
are UK academic journals
Richmond
Journal of Law & Technology (JOLT)
John Marshall Law School Review of Intellectual Property
Law (RIPL)
and Villanova Sports & Entertainment Law Journal
(VSELJ)
Federal
Communications Law Journal (FCLJ)
is a major US journal. The excellent EU-based
International Journal Of Communications Law &
Policy (IJCLP)
- based in Germany - and the Michigan Telecommunications
& Technology Law Review (MTTLR) are
also recommended.
Harvard
Journal of Law & Technology (JOLT)
- abstracts from Harvard Law School
Berkeley
Technology Law Journal (BTLJ)
- Intellectual
Property & Technology Forum (IPTF)
- Boston College of Law
Among
newsgroups the CNI Copyright & Intellectual Property
Forum, operated by the US Coalition for Networked Information
(CNI),
is of particular significance.
Blogs by IP specialists include -
- Warwick
Rothnie (Australia) IP Wars | here
- Nicholas
Weston's
Australian Trade Marks Law blog |
here
- Martin
Schwimmer (US) The Trademark Blog | here
- Kimberly
Weatherall (Australia) lawfont | here
(replacing Weatheralls Law | here)
- William
Patry (US) Patry Copyright Blog | here
- Copyfight
(US) | here
- Creative
Commons (US) | here
- Axel
Horns (Germany) | here
- IPEG
(UK) | here
- Dennis
Crouch (US) Patently-O | here
- Lawrence
Lessig (US) | here
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