"There's a war out there, old friend. A world war. And it's not about who's got the most bullets. It's about who controls the information. What we see and hear, how we work, what we think... it's all about the information! "

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Copyright law is already difficult to understand...so let's see if we can pin it down. And while we are at it, can we make it more complex?

Copyright resources:

• What is Copyright Protection?
• James Frankel's Presentation on Copyright Law - PPT
  

• The UT Crash Course in Copyright

• Copyright and Copyleft from Educational CyberPlayGround
• James Frankels Blog entries on Copyright or Copywrong. On this one you will have to scroll down the page to find Part !. Then scroll up to find the other parts. There are 16 more parts. Click on "Copyright" in the left hand "Categories" column and you can find them all. Well worth the search.
• "In the fight over piracy, a rare stand for privacy" from The New York Times. The newest entry in the copyright saga.
• "The Cost of Copyright Confusion for Media Literacy" from Center for Social Media and Stephen Downes.
• "Our Own Creative Land: Cultural Monopoly and the Troubles with Canadian Copyright", a lecture by Michael Geist
• World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO)
• A Copyright Guide for Music Teachers
  

Copyleft resources:

• Copyleft and the GNU Operating System
• "Copyleft" from Wikipedia

Share-alike, Opensource, Free or ????:

• The Economy of Ideas by John P. Barlow
• Lawrence Lessig's book, The Future of Ideas
  
• Creative Commons Website
• Bound by Law - a comic version explaining copyright and creative commons. Fast version. Faster version (flash). (You may need a flash player)
• "The World of P2P" from Wikipedia
• "P2P, a legal perspective"
• "Open Source" from Wikipedia
  

"If I hum a tune in the forest, am I still breaking the copyright laws".

...and yet one more video to consider: