Topics: Issues : Intellectual Property
Pages or organizations which debate whether or not some or all "intellectual property" laws are unfair monopoly grants, not real private property like physical things.
Copyrights
Pages or organizations which debating various issues surrounding copyrights, such as length of coverage or whether the entire copyright concept is valid in the first place.
Consumer Broadband and Digital Television Promotion Act,
Digital Millennium Copyright Act,
European Union Copyright Directive,
Filesharing,
Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act,
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Digital Rights Management
Digital Rights Management (DRM) is a type of intellectual property control employed by many industries to protect digital content from illegal use.
DVD Encryption,
Microsoft,
Opposing Views,
Sony,
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Free Access Theory
This category contains references about several kinds of initiatives whose aim is to free access to peer reviewed scientific papers, namely, "that body of work for which the author does not and never has expected to SELL the words" (S.Harnad) and to promote institutional self-archiving of electronic preprints, in the respect of protocols and standards for electronic archives interoperability.
Journal Cost Issues,
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Genetic Resources
The subset of Genetic Resources covers two broad areas of concern about intellectual property: aspects which impact on knowledge about the medical uses of genetic resources and those that impact on knowledge about their use for food and agriculture.
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Music Freedom
Groups or pages defending the unrestricted distribution of music/songs, instead of a few large corporations having monopoly grants on them.
Audio Files,
Corrupted Audio CDs,
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Trusted Computing
Trusted Computing (commonly abbreviated TC) is a technology developed and promoted by the Trusted Computing Group (TCG).
Opposing Views,
Trusted Computing Group,
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