Web2Rights

http://www.web2rights.org.uk/
Web2.0 and IPR
Within the context of academia, a wide range of new and developing services, software and other technologies are being deployed, developed and adapted to engage and communicate with staff, students and new audiences. The software and technologies are diverse and are reshaping user engagement, the concept of “community” and [...]

Intellectual Property Rights and copyright: Introduction

http://www.slainte.org.uk/copyright/copyrightindex.htm
From the Slainte website. This gives a basic overview of IPR and copyright, focusing on the information professionals’ perspective.
(thanks to Roddy Macleod’s IRN)

UAuckland to embed CC metadata for theses in its IR

http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/8079

Michelle Thorne, February 28th, 2008
The University of Auckland has just announced that they have embedded Creative Commons licensing for all new submissions by PhD students into the university’s digital repository, ResearchSpace.
From the repository’s librarian Leonie Hayes:
“At the moment the showcase collection is PhD theses, there are nearly 800 in the PhD collection, [...]

Larry Lessig’s book “The Future of Ideas”

http://thefutureofideas.s3.amazonaws.com/lessig_FOI.pdf 
Larry Lessig’s book “The Future of Ideas” is now free to download under Creative Commons attribution-non-commercial license. Published in 2001 by Random House, the book addresses IP and the impact on it of the internet. Lessig’s other books are also available free under a Creative Commons license: Free Culture: How Big Media Uses Technology and [...]

Against Intellectual Monopoly

A new book, “Against Intellectual Monopoly” (on the economics of IP) by US economists Michael Boldrin and David Levine is available for a free download.
Here is the URL:
http://levine.sscnet.ucla.edu/general/intellectual/againstfinal.htm
The book is coming out in July 2008 from Cambridge University Press, but the authors have negotiated an arrangement with CUP to make it freely available online now….and [...]