General Information about IPR
American Bar Association Section on IP Law:
ABA provides law school accreditation, continuing
legal education, information about the law,
programs to assist lawyers and judges in their
work, and initiatives to improve the legal system
for the public.
The ABA Section of
Intellectual Property Law is committed to keeping
its members fully informed about, and actively
engaged in influencing, the latest developments in
this ever-expanding global field.
http://www.abanet.org/intelprop/home.html
American Intellectual Property Law
Association: The AIPLA is a 16,000 member,
national bar association constituted primarily of
intellectual property lawyers in private &
corporate practice, in government service, and in
the academic community. It aids in the improvement
in laws relating to intellectual property and in
their proper interpretation by the courts, and to
provide legal education to the public and to its
members on intellectual property issues.
http://www.aipla.org
The Coalition for Networked Information (CNI)
is an organization dedicated to supporting the
transformative promise of networked information
technology for the advancement of scholarly
communication and the enrichment of intellectual
productivity. Some 200 institutions representing
higher education, publishing, network and
telecommunications, information technology, and
libraries and library organizations make up CNI's
Members
http://www.cni.org/
EDUCAUSE is a nonprofit association whose
mission is to advance higher education by promoting
the intelligent use of information
technology.
http://www.educause.edu/NewContent/2657
European Union IPR Discussion related
to Trade
http://europa.eu.int/comm/trade/issues/sectoral/
The International Intellectual Property
Alliance (IIPA) is a private sector
coalition formed in 1984 to represent the U.S.
copyright-based industries in bilateral and
multilateral efforts to improve international
protection of copyrighted materials.
http://www.iipa.com/
KuesterLaw - The Technology Law
Resource. This website is intended to be
the most comprehensive resource on the Internet
for technology law information, especially
including patent, copyright & trademark
law.
http://www.kuesterlaw.com/
World Intellectual Property Organization:
WIPO is one of the 16 specialized agencies of the
United Nations system of organizations. It
administers 23 international treaties dealing with
different aspects of intellectual property
protection. The Organization counts 183 nations as
member states
http://www.wipo.int/portal/index.html.en
Copyright Information
American Chemical Society (ACS) What
Chemists Need to Know about Copyright.
Presented by the American Chemical Society Joint
Board/Council Committee on Copyrights.
http://pubs.acs.org/copyright/learning_module/module.html
American Mathematical Society (AMS)
Copyright and Permission Information
http://www.ams.org/authors/permissions.html
Association of American Publishers (AAP)
Copyright & Permissions AAP has
gathered several resources related to copyright
and permissions throughout their web site.
http://www.publishers.org/copyright/index.cfm
The Copyright Clearance Center, Providing the
most complete and convenient access to copyright
permission for millions of publications
worldwide.
http://www.copyright.com/
The Copyright Management Center (CMC) serves
the Indiana University-Purdue University
Indianapolis (IUPUI) and larger Indiana University
community with the management of copyright issues
arising in the creation of original works and in
the use of existing copyrighted works for
teaching, research, and service.
http://www.copyright.iupui.edu/index.htm
Creative Commons is a non-profit organization
devoted to expanding the range of creative work
available for others legally to build upon and
share.
http://creativecommons.org
The Digital Millennium Copyright Act
(DMCA)The 1998 enactment of the Digital
Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) represents the
most comprehensive reform of United States
copyright law in a generation. The DMCA seeks to
update U.S. copyright law for the digital age in
preparation for ratification of the World
Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO)
treaties.
http://www.educause.edu/issues/dmca.html
United States
Copyright Office: The Copyright Office
promotes creativity by administering and
sustaining an effective national copyright system.
Their roles include creating and maintaining a
public record through registration of claims and
recordation of documents, providing technical
assistance to the Congress and to executive branch
agencies, providing information services to the
public, supporting the Library of Congress by
obtaining and making available deposits for the
Library’s collections, and serving as a
resource to the domestic and international
copyright communities.
http://www.copyright.gov
Patent and Trademark Information
All About Trademarks
http://www.ggmark.com/
United States
Patent and Trademark Office: The USPTO is a
federal agency in the Department of Commerce which
promotes the progress of science and the useful
arts by securing for limited times to inventors
the exclusive right to their respective
discoveries (Article 1, Section 8 of the United
States Constitution).
http://www.uspto.gov/
