Copyright issues on the Internet

Click on the above letters to see an excellent example of a "cease and desist" letters which Jeanette Foshee received. Jeanette made several sets of absolutely beautiful Simpsons' character icons, which were previously available fom the The Simpsons Archiveand elsewhere. The letters above have been reproduced from The Simpsons Archiveonly for academic discussion, evaluation, research and complies with the copyright law of the United States as defined and stipulated under Title 17 U. S. Code.

Copyright issues on the Internet: Some Aspects

• The Church of Scientology vs. Internet
  

  The Church of Scientology has begun legal proceedings against several individuals for publishing the practices and tenets of the church that are sometimes only revealed to "spiritually advanced parishoners."

• Web Publishing - What is protected
  
  

  What is protected when you publish on the Web, what you can and cannot take from others for your Web page, and what issues are involved in linking to other people's Web pages?

• Copyright Protection of Newsgroup Messages
  

  Newsgroups pose an interesting problem from a copyright perspective in that they contain elements of email (sending a message to other people) and Web pages (publishing a message for all netizens to see). This section deals with the issue of copying newsgroup messages as opposed to the copying of news articles into newsgroup messages.

• Copyright Issues on the Internet by Dixie Lawson
  

  Responsibility for alleged copyright infringement on the Internet is a very complicated issue mainly because the Internet is more or less unmanaged at this point in time.

• Newsgroup posting on copyright issues
  

  A copyright notice is not necessary to preserve copyright. In other words, placing something on the Internet without a copyright notice does NOT mean placing the material into the public domain.
  

• Trademark Wars On The Web
  
• The Corporate Propaganda Page
  
• McDonald's, McLibel, Multinationals
  
• The Kmart Sucks Page
  
  • Policies and Legal Issues
    

    The rapid growth of the Internet and its increasing availability to the general public has necessitated (at least in the minds of some) the major reworking of already existing communcations legislation and the addition of some new legislation.

  Some issues:
  • Internet overview and implied copyright licenses for hyperlinked material
  • Copyright issues on the Internet raised in the "White Paper" and pending legislation
  • Playboy's copyright and trademark disputes on the Internet
  • Trademarks on the Internet: Who's in charge?
  • International aspects of trademarks on the Internet
  • IPLAC Domestic-Foreign Trademark Committee

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  This web site was created especially for the students of UNC-CH's JOMC 191.7 class Communication Issues in Cyberspace, and for any other interested person.

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