To start with, one can read Brad Templeton's "Copyright Myths", at:
http://www.clari.net/brad/copymyths.html

One document available from the EFF that may be of special interest
is the "Intellectual Property Primer", found at:
http://www.eff.org/pub/CAF/law/ip-primer

Borland offers a Legal Toolkit on it's webpage; it's aimed at
software developers and has sections on copyrights, trademarks, and
patents. It's at:
http://www.borland.com

For a web page dedicated to copyright issues, check out:
http://www.benedict.com/

There's a sizeable Copyright Law FAQ available at:
http://www.cis.ohio-state.edu/hypertext/faq/usenet/Copyright-FAQ/top.html

And it probably can't hurt to check out the Copyright Office's webpage:
http://lcweb.loc.gov/copyright/

Or the similar information that the Library of Congress provides at:
gopher://marvel.loc.gov:70/11/copyright

For the actual U.S. copyright law, go to:
http://www/law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/



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