Copyright and Terms of Use

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1. Copyright Law

The following links explain what you can and cannot legally do with other people’s work. Please contact us if you believe that any page on this site breaches copyright.

10 Big Myths About Copyright Explained —: http://www.templetons.com/brad/copymyths.html
Australian Copyright Council — Introduction: http://www.copyright.org.au/newbie.htm
Biomedical Tissue Services Class Action — Monheit Law is investigating tainted biomedical tissue lawsuits. Lawsuits for injuries or infections caused by contaminated human tissue transplants.: http://www.monheit.com/biomedical-tissue
Copyright for Collage Artists — US, but possibly relevant for Australia also: http://www.funnystrange.com/copyright/
Copyright Website, The —: http://www.benedict.com/
Fair dealing in Australia — from a report of the Copyright Law Review Committee.: http://www.law.gov.au/clrc/gen_info/clrc/clrc%20report/chapter4.html
Stanford Copyright and Fair Use Center — a detailed summary of U.S. Copyright law and its Fair Use exemptions: http://fairuse.stanford.edu/
The Future of Fair Dealing in Australian Copyright Law — by Peter Brudenall: http://elj.warwick.ac.uk/jilt/copright/97_1brud/default.htm

2. Copyright and Intellectual Property issues

Creative Commons — licenses for requiring attributed, non-comercial, non-derivative and/or share-alike use of creative works (under U.S. Copyright Law): http://creativecommons.org/
Free Culture — The downloadable text of Lawrence Lessig's book Free Culture: How Big Media Uses Technology and the Law to Lock Down Culture and Control Creativity: http://free-culture.org/freecontent/
Free Documentation License (FDL) — a form of Copyleft designed for documentation, from the Free Software Foundation: http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/fdl.html
The Progress of Science and Useful Arts — ‘Why copyright today threatens intellectual freedoms’: http://www.fepproject.org/policyreports/copyright.html