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To make it faster to load and read,
I made a page for each "case":

Introduction
Copyright and copywrong
"Web piracy"
The N.E.T. Act in the United States
The Church of Scientology cases
The Shetland News hyperlink case
"The day the sites went out in Georgia"
The Digital Object Identifier
Music copyright on the Internet
Are they coming to take me away?
The most recent case
concerning journalists, January 1998


Webography (references)
Procedure (what I did)
Procedure
  1. Searched for ["internet copyright"] at Infoseek, Excite, and AltaVista.
  2. Read a Frequently Asked Questions-article which was one of the ten first hits at Infoseek.
  3. Studied the United States copyright regulations, which were at the Library of Congress web site (the FAQ had referred to the Library of Congress).
  4. Browsed through the Related topics at Infoseek, "Intellectual property" and "Legal issues".
  5. Checked the copyright laws of Sweden.
  6. Made a NewsTracker request at Excite, but used too many keywords (probably) and got no relevant information at all.
  7. Sent e-mail to a California Law office that had promised free advice. I received a rather useful answer within hours.
  8. Joined the USCOPYRIGHT mailinglist at Library of Congress. There was no advance information, so it was a bit of a gamble. Should it overload the mail server? It is apparently used mostly for announcements about new laws, and I have received just one message so far.
  9. Read the American Intellectual Property Law Association's "Washington Newsletter" about the development of copyright law in the U.S. during 1997.
  10. Studied the newsgroup misc.int-property, which was rather interesting for general information and discussion of a few questions, but contained very little internet-specific information.
  11. Got a tip about music copyright, which lead to the BMI web site.
  12. Studied the Shetland News case.
  13. Studied the Link Controversy Page, where I found the TotalNEWS story.
  14. Read what the last Global Electronic Journalism students wrote on copyright. There I found the link to the COPICAT Project.
  15. Searched Wired News for stories on [electronic copyright].
  16. Got a tip about a mailing list for a copyright tutorial. Subscribed to it.
  17. Read a copyright FAQ at DNet.
  18. Started to structure my notes.
  19. Got a tip about the Northern Light case.
  20. Searched Infoseek for [freelance "Northern Light"]. Found an article about the issue.