World Intellectual Property Organization - WIPO is responsible for the promotion of the protection of intellectual property throughout the world through cooperation among States, and for the administration of various multilateral treaties dealing with the legal and administrative aspects of intellectual property.

Copyright and Intellectual Property - Links to major resources in the area of copyright and intellectual property, provided by the American Library Association.

Field Guide--Libraries, Copyright and Document Delivery - Extensive print and internet bibliography. Last updated February 1996.

Canadian Copyright and the Internet - By Avi Pollock M.B.A., LL.B.

Stanford Copyright & Fair Use - Information and study aids concerning copyright law. Searchable by keyword. Provided by Stanford University Libraries.

Intellectual Property Mall - Links to a unique collection of intellectual property resources provided by the Franklin Pierce Law Center and others. Comprehensive. It is intended to offer "one stop shopping" for intellectual property professionals in academia, business and science, as well as for inventors and entrepreneurs.

When Works Pass into the Public Domain - A chart prepared by University of North Carolina law library director Laura Gasaway to help in making the determination whether a work remains copyright-protected in the US.

Copyright Resources Online - Includes annotated lists of university and non-university resources, primarily for the US and Canada.

Copyright Resources on the Internet - An annotated meta-index of copyright sites for educators and generalists alike. From the Groton (CT) Public School District.

Patent Café - Internet vertical portal for intellectual property directories, information, advice and community networking.

All about Trademarks - Large list of links to publications about trademarks, including links for lawyers. Information on state, federal, international, and internet marks, FAQs about copyrights.

BPubs:Intellectual Property - A business publication with recent articles on trademarks, copyrights, technology protection, trade secrets and patents.

Ventius: Intellectual Property Community - "Functions as a free, industry-wide portal and online community dedicated to increasing knowledge and collaboration among professionals involved in the creation, management and value extraction of Intellectual Property (IP)." Provides daily news, online training, management discussions, access to reference data and transaction sites, free patent and trademark search.

Consumer Project on Technology - More than half the listings treat intellectual property. Topics include patents, access to patented drugs, links to summaries and position papers, resources for intellectual property law (domestic and international), and select internet resources.

ARL:Copyright and Intellectual Property  - Documents and links from the Association of Research Libraries. Read about recent Federal laws regarding copyrights and trademarks.

Educause - Good site to catch up on new intellectual property law and interpretation by the courts. Also available are back issues of the Educause newsletter dealing with copyright as well as some books about copyright and education.

Copyright Considerations - University of Iowa site on copyright, fair use, public domain, and copyright impact on a variety of campus services.

Legal Information Institute - Cited as 'the most linked to web resource in the field of law' and as the best starting place. Resource for law, including full-text Constitutional, U. S. Code, court opinions, and summaries. Searchable, with overviews provided for specific areas of intellectual property law.

Electronic Freedom Forum Intellectual Property Archive - An archive of papers on Intellectual Property, including some of the main legal documents and the criticisms of them. Annotated, with contributions by many notable authors, including Pamela Samuelson, Arthur Levine, etc.

Patent and Trademark Resources and Services, City of Sunnyvale - Recommended by Nolo.com as a comprehensive, low-cost solution to patent and trademark searches. All US patents, and 'comprehensive availability of worldwide patent documents'. Includes how to search, links to USPTO, etc. Searchable online, or engage a librarian.

Library Juice Copyright Issue - Sept. 13 2000 issue, articles on copyright. Good access via abstracts, hyperlinked to papers. Some are academic, some are practical "how to". Not exhaustive, but a good collection on a wide variety of copyright issues.

ADH Patent Services - Professional intellectual property services including US and non-US patent copies, file histories, prosecution file histories, trademark registrations, applications, and other IP related document and document retrieval services.

Nolo.com: Legal Encyclopedia - "Law for All" is Nolo's slogan. A good site for the beginner, it provides simplified explanations of Internet Law, Trademarks, Copyrights, and Patents and Secrets. It also offers more in-depth resources, particularly 'how to' legal books.

Copyright Law at CCH Australia - Provides copyright and legal resources on Australian copyright law.

Yahoo! News, Intellectual Property - Yahoo!'s links to current articles on Intellectual Property, updated very frequently. This is a business category, and the links to related web-pages reflect that angle. Not a wide selection, but a good place to find breaking news.

Liblicense: Licensing Digital Information - a listserv, with searchable archive, at Yale University. Most important is the free downloadable software that can be used to help draft library licenses and contracts.

FindLaw for Legal Professionals - findlaw - thousands of legal sites, cases, codes, forms, law reviews, law schools, bar associations, law firms, experts, etc.

Center for Intellectual Property and Copyright in the Digital Environment - Provides resources and workshops for the higher education community on IP and copyright in the digital environment, emphasis on law, and policy relating to distance education.

U.S. Copyright Office, Rulemaking on Exemptions from Prohibition on Circumvention ... - Library exemptions from the DMCA copyright "anticircumvention" provisions, the ruling by the Librarian of Congress and the Register of Copyrights (October 28 2000).

Intellectual Property in Cyberspace -- Library Catalogue - Harvard Law's online library of materials pertaining to intellectual property, divided into topics. Bibliographies for online and offline papers. Topics include domain names, linking, framing, metatags, etc.

CANCOPY: What is Copyright? - Explains copyright, focusing on Canadian law.