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Legal and Civic Resources
1. Censorship, Freedom, and Equal Opportunity
2. Commercial || 3. Government || 4. Intellectual Property
5. Law Reviews, Newsletters, and Archives
6. Politics and Activism || 7. Privacy, Security, and Encryption

1. Censorship, Freedom, and Equal Opportunity
ACLU Free Reading Room -- info on their gopher server
Carnegie Mellon Censorship -- perhaps the best known university incident
Censorship -- Yahoo's pointers
Center for Democracy and Technology -- lobbyists for users' rights
Communications Decency Act -- soon to be declared unconstitutional
Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility -- computer scientists

address "the power, promise, and limitations of computer technology" by, among other means, hosting an annual Conference on Computers, Freedom, and Privacy and supporting programs on the NII, Clipper Chip, privacy and civil liberties, gender, etc. -- see the Sixth Annual CFP Conference

Electronic Democracy Foundation -- electronic activism at MIT
Electronic Freedom Public Interest Groups -- Yahoo's pointers
Electronic Frontier Foundation -- the conscience of cyberspace's site

contains many treasures, such the EFFector, their newsletter, the Let Freedom Ring archive, which points to nonprofit civil liberties and communications organizations, Computers and Academic Freedom, which covers campus issues, and Sex, Censorship and the Internet, everything you wanted to know about the Net but were afraid to ask

Feminist Jurisprudence Materials -- from Cornell Law School's LII
The File Room -- including a list of Anti-Censorship Organizations
Freedom of Expression -- links to relevant material
Freedom of Speech, Information, and Religion, and Telecommunications:

Law, Policy, and Society -- comprehensive pointers from the ACA

Info Highway Parental Empowerment Group -- joint effort between the

Progressive Networks Initiative, Microsoft, and Netscape to "'lock out' access to materials inappropriate to children"

InfoPolitics -- telecommunications and distribution of information issues
Info Rich / Info Poor -- home page of Trevor Haywood, author of the

book of the same name

Internet and the South: Superhighway or Dirt-Track? -- how to use

information as a means to empower developing nations

Internet Day of Protest -- Dec. 12, 1995
Legal Beat -- precedent-setting cases for cyberspace
Media=Distortion / Internet=Truth -- "stop cyber censorship"
Morality Museum -- cyberporn and censorship
Net Nanny -- monitor and block what your children can access online
Platform for Internet Content Selection -- supporters of open labeling of

Net content, censorship mediation

Sunsite SMUT Page -- ask them about this on Feb. 13
Voters Telecommunications Watch -- legislation and electronic civil liberties
Your Rights in Cyberspace -- provided by the Indiana Civil Liberties Union

2. Commercial [top]
Advertising Law Internet Site -- facts and commercial services
Business and the Law -- banking, environment, finance, healthcare, IP, etc.
Court TV Law Center -- cases, transcripts, and more
CyberLaw and CyberLex -- newsletters on Net-related issues for attorneys
E-Law -- provided by David Loundy, new tech attorney
LawLinks -- provided by LEXIS-NEXIS, online database giant
Law Mall -- services for lawyers and clients
Law of Electronic Commerce: EDI, E-mail and Internet (1995) -- updated book

by Benjamin Wright on the legality of electronic contracts and other business transactions

Law Sites -- Point Communications' picks
Lawyers Cooperative Publishing -- with the The Legal List: Fall 1995

Internet Desk Reference, Law-Related Resources on the Internet and Elsewhere, book by Erik J. Heels

Legal -- from Nerd World Media
Nolo Press -- well-regarded techno-legal self-help books
Seamless Web Site -- representative electronic law office
West Publishing -- major law publishing company

3. Government [top]
Berne Convention -- key document for international IP
Central Intelligence Agency and Intelligence Community -- can we talk?
Citizen's Guide to Using the FOIA -- about the Freedom of Information Act
Copyright Act of 1976 -- current copyright law
Electronic Communications Privacy Act of 1986 -- wiretap legislation
Federal Communications Commission -- broadcast media and

telecommunications regulatory agency

FedWorld -- index of governmental information servers
GPO Gate -- Government Printing Office search engine
Heroes -- counterterrorism rewards program of the State Department
International Trade Law Project -- including GATT
Library of Congress -- online services, exhibits, and more, including

Thomas, legislative information on the Internet, and the Newspaper and Current Periodical Room, a plenteous news resource

NASA -- cool space stuff
National Archives and Records Administration -- the official version
National Information Infrastructure -- on the highway with Clinton and Gore

see the "White Paper" -- the NII's final report on IP
see also Champions of Cyberspace -- the 1995 NII Awards

North Atlantic Treaty Organization -- NATO is still around and coming online
N.C. Network Information Center -- including the N.C. Information Highway
N.C. Public Information -- index of state offices on the Web
Peace Corps -- making a difference for 35 years
Public Policy Resources on the Internet -- pointers from Duke's

Sanford Institute

United Nations -- celebrating the UN's 50th anniversary
U.S. Copyright Office and U.S. Patent and Trademark Office -- registries
U.S. Customs Office -- border patrol
U.S. Department of Justice -- national law and order, with the FBI
U.S. Federal and State Government WWW Sites -- comprehensive index
U.S. Government Documents -- including the Declaration of Independence,

the Constitution, and others

U.S. Information Service -- about the U.S.A.
U.S. Institute of Peace -- nonviolent conflict resolution
U.S. National Debt -- but who's counting?
U.S. Postal Service -- snail mail
U.S. Senate and U.S. House of Representatives -- Congress
U.S. Supreme Court -- Yahoo's pointers
White House -- President

4. Intellectual Property [top]
American Intellectual Property Association -- IP attorneys association
Avoiding Patent, Copyright, and Trademark Problems -- practical advice
Copyright Clearance Center, Inc. -- collective copyright licensing services
Copyright Grab -- Pamela Samuelson's opposition to the NII's "White Paper"
Copyright Website -- recommended resource for Web providers

see the Busted and Internet Issues pages

Digital Future Coalition -- organized in response to the NII's "White Paper"
Fair Use -- Negativland's views

see Sonic Outlaws -- Negativland film directed by Craig Baldwin

Information Law Web -- law firm provides Information Age services
Intellectual Property Creators' Web Site -- inventors protect their own
Intellectual Property Law Primer for Multimedia Developers (1994) --

manual by Duke alumna J. Dianne Brinson and Mark F. Radcliffe

Intellectual Property Library -- EFF's archive includes nonprofits and

lesser known resources

Intellectual Property Materials -- at Cornell Law School's LII
"Intellectual Property Protection Regimes in the Age of Copright,"

article by Eric Schlachter, Esq., Summer 1995

Kuesterlaw -- well maintained, comprehensive list of IP pointers
League for Programming Freedom -- hackers' organization opposes

software patents and user interface copyrights

Legal Dysfunction Notice -- copyright spoof
"The Letter" -- Elvis site at Sunsite is advised to cease and desist
NetCheck -- copyright rent-a-cops on the Web
Ten Big Myths about Copyright Explained -- popular copyright FAQ

by Brad Templeton, publisher of ClariNet

Trade Secrets -- the "other kind" of IP
"University Pushes Copyright Limits With Online Reserves,"

article by Harris Hwang, Sept. 15, 1995, in the Chronicle

U.S. Intellectual Property Information for Independent Inventors, Artists,

Authors and Small Business Owners -- freeware notice for the "little guy"

World Intellectual Property Office -- global perspective
WWW Multimedia Law -- sorts through complicated legal area

5. Law Reviews, Newsletters, and Archives [top]
(hard to go wrong with articles and recommendations from the below)
American Bar Association -- legal establishment

see LAWlinks and Technology

Berkeley Technology Law Journal -- University of California at Berkeley
Chicago-Kent's Guide to Legal Resources -- tidy online search engine

from the Chicago-Kent College of Law

Cyberspace Law Bibliography -- UCLA Online Institute for Cyberspace

Law and Policy

Duke Law Library -- the Law Library's materials
Harvard Journal of Law and Technology -- Harvard Law School
High Technology Law Journal -- School of Law at UC-Berkeley
Human Rights Brief -- Center for Human Rights and Humanitarian Law
Intellectual Property Magazine -- published by The Recorder, a daily legal

newspaper based in San Francisco

Inter-Law's 'Lectric Law Library -- wide variety of legal material
Journal of Law and Information Science -- Australian international,

cross-disciplinary journal

Journal of Online Law -- College of William and Mary School of Law
Law-Related E-Journals and Periodicals -- USC Law Library
Legal Automation and Internet Review -- weekly newsletter published

by the Talton Law Library at UT-Austin

LegaLink Newsletter -- a high-tech law practice, Smith, Craig, and

Werkenthin publish LegaLink to inform the public and publicize their services

Lettre de l'Internet Juridique -- French newsletter on information technology law

(in English)

Michigan Telecommunications and Technology Law Review --

new online journal from the University of Michigan Law School

NetWatchers Cyberzine -- published monthly by Marshall K. Dyer,

new tech attorney, NetWatchers deserves high marks for presentation and content

Richmond Journal of Law and Technology -- University of Richmond School

of Law (some articles available in PGP format, see Privacy below)

Stanford Law and Policy Review -- Stanford Law School
Villanova Information Law Chronicle -- bulletin from Villanova School of Law
Web Journal of Current Legal Issues -- highly regarded electronic

publication from the University of Newcastle in Great Britain

6. Politics and Activism [top]
(Net-related ethical issues are sure to emerge during the 1996 elections)
1996 U.S. Presidential Election -- Yahoo's Pointers
All Things Political -- updates provided by the Washington Weekly
Almanac of American Politics -- "Bible of American Politics," 1996 edition
Communist Party U.S.A. -- working class party
Contract with America -- the Gingrich vision
Democratic National Committee -- donkeys
Electronic Activist -- directory of congresspeople, state governments, media
George -- new political magazine published by you know who
GOP In-Fighting: Update Series -- a blow by blow account
GOP Online -- elephants
Grapevine Newspaper -- nonpartisan watchdog on the media and Washington
Legal Justice Reform Network -- upholders of the U.S. Constitution
National Election Studies -- national surveys of the American electorate

for social science research

National Performance Review -- "your toolkit to help reinvent the government"
New American Magazine -- published by the John Birch Society
NewtWatch -- what will he think of next?
Richard Nixon Library and Foundation -- better there than at Duke
Political Activism Resources -- excellent table of worldwide causes
Political Babble Generator -- cut 'n paste approach to speech writing
Progressive Pages -- "resources for progressive activists"
RAND -- public policy and political research nonprofit organization

see "Universal Access to E-mail: Feasibility and Societal Implications," report by Robert H. Anderson, et al., Nov. 21, 1995
see also "Cyberocracy, Cyberspace, and Cyberology: Political Effects of the Information Revolution," report by David F. Ronfeldt, 1991

Right Side of the Web -- conservative connections
Sovereign's WWW Content Page -- "if you don't stand for something,

you'll fall for anything"

Teledemocracy Action News Network -- political action through digital media
Town Hall -- interactive conservative forum
Unofficial Rush Limbaugh Home Page -- wit and wisdom from Rush
VoteLink -- "the voice of the Net," an online polling station
Kevin Warmath -- PPS alum provides a list of election pointers
White Water and Vince Foster -- Clinton rumor-mill
Women's Web World -- feminist majority online

7. Privacy, Security, and Encryption [top]
Clipper Chip -- Yahoo's pointers
Computer Privacy Handbook (1995) -- book by Andre Bacard
Computer Security Resource Clearinghouse -- from the NIST
Computer Viruses and Security -- "an introduction to nasty things that go

bump in the night"

Cop Net and Police Resource List -- online law enforcement
Counterterrorism Issues -- links from the Center for Democracy and Technology
Counterterrorism Page -- the Cold War continues
Cryptography -- pointers to sources on what it is and how it works
Cryptography, PGP, and Your Privacy -- from the WWW Virtual Library
Cypherpunks Archive -- "PGP, remailers, rants, various crypto-tools,

newspaper clippings, and a good deal of other things"

Denning-Barlow Clipper Chip Debate -- pros and cons of encryption
DigiCash -- controversial e-money initiative
DigiMarc -- watermark encryption for copyright protection
�igital�aZe's Hell of Phrack! -- hacking, phreaking, serious electronic mischief
Electronic Commerce -- Web resources
Electronic Privacy and Information Center -- electronic surveillance concerns
"E-Money (That's What I Want)" -- article by Steven Levy, Wired, Dec. 1995
Encryption and Privacy Issues on the Net -- overview provided by Carole Drewry
EPIC Online Guide to Privacy Resources -- well-considered and complete
Face Recognition Security -- from Miros
High Technology Crime Investigation Association -- info highway patrol
Intelligent Software Agents -- "information and resources about intelligent

information agents, software agents, softbots, knowbots, infobots, etc."

IntelWeb -- national and international intelligence communities, a must for

conspiracy theorists and James Bond wannabes

Internet Privacy Forum -- moderated discussion
Jane's Information Store -- your complete military-industrial-complex resource
Journal of Electronic Defense -- "international authority on electronic warfare"
Brian LaMacchia's Legal Issues Page -- pointers to legal primary material on

cryptography and ownership

David LaMacchia Defense Fund -- well-known BBS wire fraud case
A Note About Web Browsers and Privacy -- they're on your electronic trail
Organizations Concerned with Privacy Issues -- cyber rights support
Privacy -- Yahoo's pointers, including PGP, Pretty Good Privacy info
Privacy Archives -- from HotWired
Privacy Rights and Issues -- comprehensive index from the ACA
Privacy Rights Clearinhouse -- educational service for Californians
Unabomber -- Yahoo's pointers to info on this anti-technology terrorist
ViaCrypt -- information cryptography firm
War on the Internet -- Phil Zimmerman's legal defense fund

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