tools: sites, primers, journals

    

the Australian Copyright Council  (ACC) site, noted on the preceding page of this guide

the IMAGO APIPLI Multimedia Law Website (IMLW) is being developed by the IMAGO Multimedia Centre and the Asia Pacific Intellectual Property Law Institute (APIPLI) at Murdoch University 

the Australian Intellectual Property Law Locus (IPLocus). Developed by Anne Fitzgerald and Peter Coroneus, the site has not been updated recently but draws together a wide range of legislation, court reports, articles and other material relating to copyright, patents, trademarks, designs, trade secrets and other aspects of IP

the IP Australia site, concerned with industrial property such as patents, trademarks and designs

     manuals and guides 

As yet there's no authoritative one-volume primer for non-specialists in Australia. 

Anne Fitzgerald's Intellectual Property Law (Sydney, LBC 99) is a succinct and affordable overview by a leading academic who's worked with the Copyright Law Review Committee. It covers industrial property along with copyright. 

Another tool is Colin Golvan's An Introduction To Intellectual Property Law (Annandale, Federation Press 92). Sam Ricketson's two volume The Law Of Intellectual Property (Sydney, LBC 99) is a much more extensive treatment from the author of the definitive study of the Berne Convention. 

Particular aspects of copyright, such as music and the visual arts, have been the subject of guides by Shane Simpson and others, although most are showing their age. The Australian Museums Online initiative provides access to the short Copyright Guidelines For Museums & Galleries In A Digital Environment (note that it predates the recent Digital Agenda legislation).

We strongly recommend the series of information sheets (accessible online) and the more detailed guides published by the Australian Copyright Council (ACC).

Overseas we like The Copyright Book: A Practical Guide (Cambridge, MIT Press 99), a lucid one-volume work for US readers by William Strong. We've noted his 1995 article on Copyright in the New World of Electronic Publishing in the excellent Journal of Electronic Publishing.

Intellectual Property: A Managers Guide (Maidenhead, McGraw-Hill 91) is a collection of papers edited by Vivien Irish. Not as authoritative or entertaining as Strong, but valuable for its matter-of-fact approach to the EU regime. Neil Sullivan's Technology Transfer (Cambridge, Cambridge Uni Press 95) is a crisp introduction to identifying, valuing and marketing IP.

     journals and newsgroups 

There has been a wave of new intellectual property journals over the past decade, as IP has begun to shed its fusty image.  Among new kids on the block the Perth-based intellectual property Digital Technology Law Journal is worth reading. 

For a global perspective Michael Geist's Internet Law News (ILN) is a snappy e-mail digest of internet law developments and the mordant Jessica Litman, US copyright guru, has a New Developments page on her site.

The UK-based Copyright World (CWorld)  offers a monthly email bulletin on international copyright developments.

In coming weeks we'll be adding to the following list of online (free) journals that specialise in IP or have a strong interest in copyright:

Digital Technology Law Journal (DTLJ) - is a 'digital IP'  journal from the Asia Pacific Intellectual Property Law Institute at Murdoch University, developers of the multimedia law website noted above. The Murdoch E-Law Journal (ELaw) is also worth perusal

Intellectual Property Magazine (IPMag) and Intellectual Property News (IPN) are publications from two US law firms

Journal of Law & Information Science (JLIS) and the Journal of Information, Law & Technology (JILT) are UK academic journals

Richmond Journal of Law & Technology (JOLT) 

Villanova Information Law Chronicle (VILC) and Sports & Entertainment Law Journal (VSELJ)

Federal Communications Law Journal (FCLJ) is a major US journal. The excellent EU-based  International Journal Of Communications Law & Policy (IJCLP) - based in Germany - and the Michigan Telecommunications & Technology Law Review (MTTLR) are also recommended.

Harvard Journal of Law & Technology (JOLT) - abstracts from Harvard Law School

Berkeley Technology Law Journal (BTLJ)

Intellectual Property & Technology Forum (IPTF) - Boston College of Law

Among newsgroups the CNI Copyright & Intellectual Property Forum, operated by the US Coalition for Networked Information (CNI), is of particular significance.


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