1. http://www.uspto.gov/web/offices/com/doc/ipnii/ This website has links to the laws of intellectual property in the United States, including the Law of Copyright. Understanding what copyright says is the starting point of our research on copyright.

2. Principles to Guide the Intellectual Property Debate, by Clyde Wayne Crews Jr. and Adam Thierer June 4, 2001 http://www.cato.org/cgi-bin/scripts/printtech.cgi/tech/tk/010604-tk.html This paper gives some principles that may help guide the debate over intellectual property and perhaps create some common ground. Since copyright is one kind of the intellectual property, we can refer to these principles for analysis to form our own points on copyright.

3. http://www.theatlantic.com/unbound/forum/copyright/intro.htm Can the sum of our ideas be reduced to "intellectual property"? Or should all information, all knowledge, be set free? Since we are experiencing powerful cultural change, should we talk about copyright from a cultural perspective? In Charles C. Mann’s article, “Who will own you next good idea?”, he thought both of the two current main camps are wrong, at least in part. He argued his own points of view.

4. http://www.compilerpress.atfreeweb.com/ This website has links to other copyright websites in other countries. So from here we can have a sense of copyrights in different countries, mainly in America and China. Combining this with what we will get from the survey, we can find the relation between copyright and literacy.

5. http://www.library.yale.edu/~okerson/copyproj.html This is a web site created by graduate students in the School of Information & Library Studies, U of Michigan, who did this work as part of their coursework for ILS Copyright for the Information Professional. It consists sections on university copyright resources and on non-university intellectual property resources. It is a rich source for finding what the ideas of many institutions are.

6. CTER http://lrs.ed.uiuc.edu/wp/copyright-2002/indexfaq.html This is a website providing FAQ on intellectual property, copyright, and plagiarism that were created for the busy educator who needs answers quickly. It is an addendum to a white paper written in August, 1999, Educators Guide to Intellectual Property, Copyright and Plagiarism. We can find some useful reference as a basis to go further and deeper, such as the issues about copyright, fair use. Hopefully, we can add something new to this website after we finish the whole project.

7. Lawrence Lessig’s “The Future of Ideas” This book covers subjects such as the concept of "Creative Commons," the history of copyright and copyright controversies, and Lessig's opinions on how to rectify the current copyright issues

8. Radio Interview with Lawrence Lessig This interview mainly discussed the current issues with defects in copyright laws. We will be drawing quotes from this interview when looking at possible solutions to fixing the complications brought about by these defects.

9. Elias, S. Patent, Copyright, and Trademark. Berkley: Nolo Press, 1997. This book is a great example of putting hard subjects into Laymen’s terms. We were glad to find this resource so that explaining basic copyright facts would be much easier! 10. Digital Future Coalition (website) http://www.dfc.org/ This website has some good news about the most current copyright happenings in D.C. Not much has happened for about a year, but it’s still a great resource.

11. Overview of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (website) http://www.gseis.ucla.edu/iclp/dmca1.htm This is a comprehensive, succinct overview of the DMCA, written by the UCLA Online Institute for Cyberspace Law and Policy. I found this resource very useful for understanding the strengths (and great weaknesses) of this act.

12. Macromedia Flash Speech given by Lawrence Lessig (website) http://lessig.org/freeculture.html Perhaps one of the best speeches on copyright (and its limits) ever given, Lawrence Lessig condenses a major argument in his book, The Future of Ideas, to a half-hour lecture, which captures perfectly the tragic decline of fair use.

13. Pike, George H. “The Diminishing Fair Use Doctrine.” Information Today 15 19, no. 2 (Feb 2002): p.15 This article discusses the history of the fair use doctrine. Specifically, how this doctrine has been on the books for 26 years and recently congress claims its authority is being diminished by technology. Therefore, Congress has made numerous changes that have weakened this doctrine, such as the Digital Millennium Copyright Act.

14. Coyle, Karen. “Digital Copyright: Protecting Intellectual Property on the Internet.” Information Technology & Libraries 220-222 20, no. 4 (Dec 2001): p.220-222 This article is a review of Jessica Litman’s book Amherst. This book provides the reader with a clear picture of why the DMAC matters by presenting a picture of how this law evolved, who it favors, and why it is generally bad for the rest of us.

15. Castelluccio, Micheal. “Intellectual Property Online: A Landmark Case.” Strategic Finance 52-57 82, no.8 (Feb 2001): p.52-57 This article address how the Internet was founded on the idea of providing academics a medium for the free exchange of ideas. Therefore, with the premise of this invention being the free trade of ideas it is going to be hard to enforce copyright. This is why President Clinton enacted the Digital Millennium Copyright Act of 1998 to clear up confusion about copyright online.

16. Schrage, Micheal. “What if Napster Where Based in China?” Fortune 194 143, no.11 (May 28,2001) p.194 This article addresses the viability of companies being located in different countries and operating on a global medium like the Internet. If they adhere to the local laws are they in the clear? Secondly, this article discusses how America allows companies to violate European law so the same should be expected from foreign countries about American law.

17. Remondini, David . “Fair Use Spotlights Conflicting Rights.” Editor & Publisher v131n50, (Dec 12, 1998): p.S8 This article discusses both the right to free speech and the right to protection of intellectual property. The specific instance revolves around a web site that is accused of downloading articles from the online version on The Washington Post, the Los Angles Times and other newspapers, and posting them on its site.