School of Information and Library Science
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

INLS 105, Information Ethics
Fall 2003

Information/Data as Intellectual Property

Key Readings

Benkler, Y. (2001). The battle over the institutional ecosystem in the digital environment. Communications of the ACM, 44(2), 84-90. [ACM Digital Library]

Barlow, J. P. (1994). Intellectual property: a taxonomy of information. Bulletin of ASIS, 20(5), 13-17. [SILS]

Bouchoux, D. (2001). Protecting Your Company's Intellectual Property: A Practical Guide to Trademarks, Copyrights,
Patents & Trade Secrets. New York: AMACOM. [SILS - KF2980 .B38 2001]

Davis, R. (2001). The digital dilemma. Communications of the ACM, 44(2), 77-83. [ACM Digital Library]

Fernández-Molina, J. C., & Peis, E. (2001). The moral rights of authors in the age of digital information. Journal of the American Society for Information Science & Technology, 52(2): 109-117. [Online via UNC libraries]

Halbert, D. J. (1999). The historical construction of copyright. In Intellectual Property in the Information Age: The Politics of Expanding Ownership Rights. Westport, CT: Quorum Books, 1-23. [SILS, Law - KF2979 .H35 1999]

Information bill of rights and responsibilities: III. Information as property. In Firestone, C. M., & Schement, J. R. (Eds.). (1995). Toward an Information Bill of Rights and Responsibilities. Washington, DC: Aspen Institute, 27-37. [Davis - HE7781 .T683 1995]

Kock, Ned. (1999). A case of academic plagiarism. Communications of the ACM, 42(7), 96-104. [ACM Digital Library]

National Research Council, Committee on Intellectual Property Rights and the Emerging Information Infrastructure, Computer Science and Telecommunications Board, Commission on Physical Sciences, Mathematics, and Applications. (2000). The Digital Dilemma: Intellectual Property in the Information Age. Washington, DC: National Academy Press. [Davis - KF2979 .N388 2000; http://www.nap.edu/html/digital_dilemma/index.html]

National Research Council, Committee for a Study on Promoting Access to Scientific and Technical Data for the Public Interest, Commission on Physical Sciences, Mathematics, and Applications. (1999). A question of balance : private rights and the public interest in scientific and technical databases. Washington, DC: National Academy Press. [Davis - KF2979 .N39 1999; http://books.nap.edu/books/0309068258/html/index.html]

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Snapper, J. W. (1999). On the Web, plagiarism matters more than copyright piracy. Ethics and Information Technology, 1(2), 127-136. [Online via UNC electronic journals]

Spinello, R. A. (2000). An ethical evaluation of web site linking. Computers and Society, 30(4), 25-32.

Warwick, S. (1999). Is copyright ethical? An examination of the theories, laws, and practices regarding the private ownership of intellectual work in the United States. In Proceedings of the Fourth Annual Ethics and Technology Conference (Chestnut Hill, MA, 1999), 135-146. http://www.bc.edu/bc_org/avp/law/st_org/iptf/commentary/content/1999060505.html.

Legal Overviews

Halpern, S. W., Nard, C. A., & Port, K. L. (1999). Fundamentals of United States Intellectual Property Law: Copyright, Patent, and Trademark. The Hague: Kluwer Law International. [SILS - KF2979 .H357 1999]

Laster, D. (1997). Copyright, trademark, and database issues. In Lee, L. C., & Davidson, J. S. (Eds.), Intellectual Property for the Internet. New York: Wiley Law Publications, 131-149. [SILS, Law - KF2980 .I546 1997]

Miller, A. R., & Davis, M. H. (2000). Intellectual Property: Patents, Trademarks, and Copyright in a Nutshell. St. Paul, MN: West Group. [SILS - KF2980 .M52 2000]

Stim, R. (2001). Intellectual Property: Patents, Trademarks, and Copyrights. 2nd ed. Albany, NY: West/Thomson Learning. [SILS - KF2980 .S75 2001]

Digital Millennium Copyright Act

Digital Millennium Copyright Act. (1998). [Online from GPO]

The Digital Millennium Copyright Act. (n.d.) Educause. http://www.educause.edu/issues/dmca.html.

UCLA Online Institute for Cyberspace Law and Policy. (2001, February 8). The Digital Millennium Copyright Act. http://www.gseis.ucla.edu/iclp/dmca1.htm.

Unintended consequences: three years under the DMCA, v.1.0. (2002). Electronic Frontier Foundation. http://www.eff.org/IP/DMCA/20030102_dmca_unintended_consequences.html.

Additional References

Association for Research Libraries. (1994, May). Intellectual Property: An Association of Research Libraries Statement of Principles. http://arl.cni.org/scomm/copyright/principles.html.

Auer, N., & Krupar, E. (2001). Mouse click plagiarism: the role of technology in plagiarism and the librarian's role in combating it. Library Trends, 49(3), 415-432. [SILS]

Barrett, M. (1995). Intellectual Property: Cases and Materials. St. Paul, MN: West. [SILS - KF2978 .B35 1995]

Bhattacharjee, S., Gopal, R. D., & Sanders, G. L. (2003). Digital music and online sharing: software piracy 2.0? Communications of the ACM, 46(7), 107-111. [ACM Digital Library]

Boyle, J. (1997). A politics of intellectual property: environmentalism for the net? [Essay]. Duke Law Journal, 47, 87-116. [Online via UNC electronic journals]

Brinson, J. D., & Radcliffe, M. F. (1996). An intellectual property law primer for multimedia and web developers. Electronic Frontier Foundation. http://www.eff.org/pub/CAF/law/ip-primer.

Crews, K. D. (ed.) (1999). Perspectives on... Copyright and fair-use guidelines for education and libraries [11 articles]. Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 50(14), 1304-1360. [Online via UNC libraries]

Eisenschitz, T., & Turner, P. (1997). Rights and responsibilities in the digital age: problems with stronger copyright in an information society. Journal of Information Science, 23(3), 209-24. (European proposals) [SILS]

Fox, B. L., & LaMacchia, B. A. (2002). Encouraging recognition of fair uses in DRM systems. Communications of the ACM, 46(4), 61-63. [ACM Digital Library]

Gardner, W., & Rosenbaum, J. (1998, Aug 7). [Policy forum: Intellectual property.] Database protection and access to information. Science, 281(5378), 786-787. [Online]

Gasaway, L. (1998). Copyright, the internet, and other legal issues. Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 49(11): 1003-1009. [Online via UNC libraries]

Gasaway, L. (2002). What's happened to copyright? Copyright and the digital age. Information Outlook, 6(5), 16-17, 19-21. [SILS Library]

Graybosch, A. J. (2001). Bootlegs: intellectual property and popular culture. Journal of Information Ethics, 10(1), 35-50. [SILS]

Kolko, B. E. (1998). Intellectual property in synchronous and collaborative virtual space. Computers and Composition, 15, 163-183. [Davis - LB1576.7 .C6] Reprinted in Baird, R. M., Ramsower, R., & Rosenbauer, S. E. (eds.), Cyberethics: Social and Moral Issues in the Computer Age. Amherts, NY: Prometheus Books, 257-281. [Davis - QA76.9 .C66 C92 2000]

Laidlaw-Johnson, E. A. (1996). The ethics of information transfer in the electronic age: scholars unite! Journal of Information Ethics, 5(2), 29-38. [SILS]

Lam, C. K. M., & Tan, B. C. Y. (2001). The internet is changing the music industry. Communications of the ACM, 44(8), 62-68. [ACM Digital Library, Magazines]

Lawrence, A. (1995). Publish and be robbed? New Scientist, 145(1965), 32-37. [Online via UNC libraries, with registration; UL]

Lipinski, T. A. (2003). The myth of technological neutrality in copyright and the rights of institutional users: recent legal challenges to the information organization as mediator and the impact of the DMCA, WIPO, and TEACH. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 54(9), 824-835. [Online via UNC libraries]

Logie, J. (2003). A copyright cold war? The polarized rhetoric of the peer-to-peer debates. First Monday, 8(7). http://firstmonday.org/issues/issue8_7/logie/index.html.

Moore, A. D. (Ed.) (1997). Intellectual Property: Moral, Legal, and International Dilemmas. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield. [Davis, Law - K1401 .I558 1997]

?? Music on the Internet: Understanding the New Rights & Solving New Problems. (2001). New York, NY: Practising Law Institute. 2 volumes. [Law - KF390.5.M8 M87 2001]

Nelkin, D. (1982). Intellectual property: the control of scientific information. Science, 216(4547), 704-708. [Online, via JSTOR]

Samuelson, P. (1999). Legally speaking: Good news and bad news on the intellectual property front. Communications of the ACM, 42(3), 19-24. [ACM Digital Library, Magazines]

Samuelson, P. (2003). DRM {and, or, vs.} the law. Communications of the ACM, 46(4), 41-45. [ACM Digital Library]

Templeton, B. (n.d.) 10 Big Myths about Copyright Explained. http://www.templetons.com/brad/copymyths.html.

Torremans, P. (2000). Moral rights in our digital age. In Stamatoudi, I., & Torremans, P. L. C. (eds.), Copyright in the New Digital Environment: The Need to Redesign Copyright. London: Sweet & Maxwell, 97-114. [SILS - K1420.5 .C77 2000]

Triangle Research Libraries Network, Copyright Policy Task Force. (1993, July). Model University Policy Regarding Faculty Publication in Scientific and Technical Scholarly Journals: A Background Paper and Review of the Issues. http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/jod/trln.html.

Weckert, J., & Adeney, D. (1997). Intellectual property. In Computer and Information Ethics. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 57-73. [SILS – QA76.9 .M65 W43 1997]

Yeung, M. M. ed. (1998). Digital watermarking: introduction. Communications of the ACM, 41(7), 30-33. [ACM Digital Library, Magazines]

Scenarios of Ethical Decisions

Baldwin, C. (1995?). Sonic Outlaws [videorecording]. San Francisco: Craig Baldwin. [UL Nonprint - 65-V6483]

Intellectual property issues. (n.d.) Negativland. http://www.negativland.com/intprop.html.

Scenario 1: Database agreement is violated. (1994). In Denning, D. S., & Lin, H. S. Rights and Responsibilities of Participants in Networked Communities. Washington, DC: National Academy Press, 88-94. [Davis - TK5105.5 .R54 1994]

Spinello, R. A. (2000). Framing as property theft? In Cyberethics: Morality and Law in Cyberspace. Sudbury, MA: Jones and Bartlett, 98. [SILS, Davis - TK5105.875 .I57 S68 2000]

Spinello, R. A. (2000). The www.nga domain name dispute (hypothetical). In Cyberethics: Morality and Law in Cyberspace. Sudbury, MA: Jones and Bartlett, 96-97. [SILS, Davis - TK5105.875 .I57 S68 2000]

Web Sites of Interest

Cornell Law School, The Legal Information Institute. (n.d.) http://www.law.cornell.edu/.

Digital Future Coalition. (n.d.) DFC Front Page. http://www.dfc.org/

Findlaw. (1994-1999). http://findlaw.com/.

Losey, R. C. (1995-1999). The Information Law Web. http://FloridaLawFirm.com/infolaw.html.

Malhotra, Y., & Malhotra, M. (1994-1999). Intellectual Property: Copyrights, Trademarks & Patents. @Brint.com. http://www.brint.com/IntellP.htm.

O'Mahoney, B. (1995-1999). The Copyright Website. http://www.benedict.com/index.html.

Stanford University Libraries. (n.d.) Copyright & Fair Use. http://fairuse.stanford.edu/.

U.S. Copyright Office, The Library of Congress. (1999). http://lcweb.loc.gov/copyright/.

U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. (1999). http://www.uspto.gov/.

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