List of Issues and Suggested Sources (1st Draft 11/13/1997)

Issues:

• U.S. Copyright Law & Policy
• Sui Generis Database Protection
• Proposed Copyright Law Amendments Arising from the White Paper
• Internet Service Provider Liability for Infringement
• Proposed Amendments Designed to Implement the Views of Copyright Minimalists
• Application of U.S. Copyright Law to Activities and Actors Physically Located Outside the U.S.
• Jurisdiction and Venue
• Proposed Suit Generis Treatment of Software
• Software - Reverse Engineering, Decompilation and Infringement
• The Use of Licensing as a Copyright Replacement -- Proposed Article 2B of the UCC
• Looking at U.S. Treatment of Any of These Issues from the Outside (That is, in comparison or contrast, with their treatment elsewhere)
• Canada
• Other North or South American Countries
• Europe (EU and/or Individual Countries)
• Japan
• Other Countries in Asia
• Developing Countries in General
• Current and Proposed International Norms
• GATT/TRIPs
• WIPO Treaties
• Berne
• Other?

Resources:

• General Collections of Sources:
• Professor Margaret Chon's List of Cyberlaw Research Sources on the Net
• Professor Jessica Litman's List of Net Sources
• Resources Bearing on Particular Issue Areas:
• The White Paper and Implementing Legislative Proposals
• S. 1284 and H.R. 2441 - NII Copyight Protection Act of 1995
• Samuelson, The Copyright Grab
• Legislative Proposals Before the 105th Congress (Including S.S. 1146 - Digital Copyright Clarification and Technology Act,H.R. 2281 and S. 1121 - WIPO Treaties Implementation Act, and H.R. 2180 - On-Line Copyright Liability Limitation Act) (DFC site)
• Jessica Litman, Revising Copyright Law for the Information Age, 75 Or. L. Rev. 19 (1996)
• Neil Netanel, Copyright and a Civil Society, 106 Yale L.J. 283 (1996)
• Proposed Sui Generis Legislation Protecting Databases
• U.S. Proposal at WIPO Conference
• H.R. 3531 - Database Investment and Intellectual Property Antipiracy Act of 1996
• H.R. 2652 - Collections of Information Antipiracy Act (See DFC site)
• UCC - Proposed Article 2B
• January 1997 Draft of 2B (Licenses)
• Mark Lemley, Intellectual Property and Shrinkwrap Licenses, 68 S. Cal. L. Rev. 1239 (1995)
• How Other Major Sources and Markets Are Addressing the Same Issues
• EU, Japan, China, Canada and Mexico
• The Impact of GATT/TRIPs & Proposed Revisions to Berne
• TRIPS
• GATT (with TRIPs)
• Marci Hamilton, The TRIPS Agreement: Imperialistic, Outdated, and Overprotective, 29 Vanderbilt J. Transnational Law 613 (1996)
• Charles McManis, Taking TRIPS on the Information Superhighway: International Intellectual Property Protection and Emerging Computer Technology, 41 Villanova L. Rev. 207 (1996)
• WIPO -
• Documents of the Diplomatic Conference on Certain Copyright and Neighboring Rights Questions (Geneva, December 2 to 20, 1996)
• U.S. Position (USPTO)
• Digital Future Coalition