Policy and Law

Policy
Copyright and Patents
Law
Content

Communications Policy: Offers many links to Communications Policy Making organizations, Policy documents and reports, Information services, and more.
Harvard Information Infrastructure Project: Many useful links, especially from their HIIP Policy Gateway.
United States Government Electronic Commerce Policy: Portal for government sites.
United States Government Electronic Commerce Policy: US policy framework for ecommerce.
Internet Policy Institute: The Internet Policy Institute.
Berkman Center for Internet and Society: "The Berkman Center is a research program founded to explore cyberspace, share in its study, and help pioneer its development. We are a network of teaching and research faculty at Harvard Law School and elsewhere; students, entrepreneurs, lawyers, and virtual architects who seek to identify and engage the challenges and opportunities the Internet presents."
Internet Societal Task Force: "The Internet is having a social and economic impact around the world. Internet policy issues are becoming as important as technical ones. Within ISTF's scope is the opportunity to identify ways in which the Internet can be a positive force in social and economic dimensions. For example; aiding the further development of countries still in the early stages of economic evolution, spreading information and knowledge, dispelling myth and ignorance, creating opportunity where it can do the most good."
OSC's Technology Policy Group: ECLIPS: ECLIPS addresses the technological, legal, and policy issues embedded in new and emerging computing and information technology applications.
Internet Public Policy Network: IPPN connects organizations to speakers, writers, and experts on Internet issues.
Coordinating the Internet: Homepage with links for book of same name from MIT Press.
"Unsolicited Bulk Email: Mechanisms for Control": Report about junk email (spam) by Paul Hoffman and Dave Crocker.
Global Internet Project: he Global Internet Project is an international group of senior executives committed to spurring the growth of the Internet worldwide.
Politically active high-technology groups: From Computerworld.
Economics of information technology: From Computerworld.
Interview with Ira Magaziner: Discussion of White House policy on electronic commerce.
Digital Tornado: The Internet and Telecommunications Policy: "Digital Tornado", written by FCC Staff Member Kevin Werbach, represents the first comprehensive assessment of the questions the Internet poses for traditional communications policy.
Internet NewsLetter: Legal and Business Aspects: Subscription service.
Internet Law and Policy Forum: Legal and policy questions
The Proposed ETERMS Repository of the International Chamber of Commerce: The ETERMS Repository is an initiative of the International Chamber of Commerce to provide new ways for conducting secure and legally safe international commercial transactions.
MegaLaw: Legal resources.
FindLaw: Links to Supreme Court and Circuit Court case law, etc.
MegaLaw: A legal portal: legal research, case law, Supreme Court cases.
Software Industry: The Silicon Valley Software Industry Coalition's mission is to identify specific projects and build collaborative relationships to facilitate an industry consensus on software issues; to act as a catalyst in resolving those issues; and to present a coordinated software industry voice.
Electronic Commerce Taxation: Useful site maintained by a CPA firm dealing with electronic commerce.
OECD Report on Taxation Framework for Electronic Commerce: A summary with link to full report.
Internet Content-Related Liability Study: Prepared for Industry Canada.
Endorsements, Licensing, and Insurance for Distributed System Services

Prop 13 Meets the Internet: UC Berkeley's Center for Community Economic Research (CCER) presents a report today detailing how rising Internet-based commerce is threatening the stability of state and local government finances nationwide.
Federation of American Scientists Project on Government Secrecy: The Whitepaper on Information Infrastructure Assurance is especially interesting.
The New Information Infrastructure: Strategies For U.S. Policy: Communications and information analysts address some of the major policy issues involved in the development of the National Information Infrastructure (NII) and the Global Information Infrastructure (GII)
National ID cards Policy: This is a Web page containing FAQs about the privacy issues raised by national ID cards.
Center for Democracy and Technology: Lots of good material having to do with policy issues surrounding privacy, crypto. etc.
Cryptome: News items and opinion about crypto policy.
Logging On to Cyberspace Tax Policy: Interactive Services Association report about tax policy for Internet transactions.
Softwar Industry Issues: State Taxes on Electronic Commerce: Several reports.
Taxes & Global Electronic Commerce: Selected Tax Implications of Global Electronic Commerce (WordPerfect v6.1)
Telecommunications Program at the University of Pittsburgh.: They offer an Information Policy Course, and here is a set of Information Policy Internet Resources maintained there.
Alliance for Public Technology: A coalition of public interest groups and individuals whose goal is to foster broad access to affordable, usable information and communication services and technology. Connecting Each to All: Principles to Implement the Goal of Advanced Universal Service
Affordable Access, Rural Online: "AAROn is a resource for policymakers and others who want to help rural schools and communities overcome barriers to the National Information Infrastructure (NII)." Sponsored by International Telecomputing Consortium, "a nonprofit corporation with the goal of helping teachers and students use new information technologies."

Copyright and Patents

The Future of Software Patents

Here are three documents from the Association for Computing Machinery:

Law

LawResearch: Internet resources for legal research.
Telepathic: The home of good debate on legal issues arising through the use of computers and computer technology in our society.
Advertising Law: Maintained by Lewis Rose.
Communications Media Center: At New York Law School.
Internet Law and Policy Forum: An Internet Law Task Force (ILTF) can be the legal policy and norms forum for the Internet. An ILTF must be a large, open, international body consisting of practicing lawyers, in-house corporate counsel, legislative professionals, academics, business professionals, technologists, researches, network operators, publishers, system administrators, and other interested parties.
Caldera: Caldera's antitrust suit against Microsoft.
Consumer Project on Technology: Links to material about Microsoft, telecommunications, intellectual property, etc.
Legal Links in Electronic Commerceand Interactive Entertainment: A collection of links having to do with legal issues surrounding electronic commerce.
Federal Communications Law Journal.: Co-published by the Federal Communications Bar Association and the Indiana University School of Law-Bloomington.

Content

Shooting the Messenger: A Critique of Australia's Content Regulation Regime: In PDF format.
PICS: Internet Access Controls Without Censorship: Describes the Platform for Internet Content Selection.
Netparents.org: Links for parents concerned about content issues.
Restricting the Internet in Libraries: Page of links to various policies adopted by libraries.
Internet Filter Assessment Project: Study by some librarians comparing the different filtering software.
The Net Labeling Delusion: Anti-PICS article.
Anti-PICS links: From EPIC.
PICS homepage: How to access PICS.
An Eternity Server: How to publish/distribute information widely and avoid censorship.
Beyond the Communications Decency Act: Constitutional Lessons of the Internet: Policy issues related to decency, PICS, etc.
ACLU: Has transcripts of Supreme Court oral argument on the CDA among other things.
Net Shepherd: Net Shepherd Inc. develops, distributes and supports advanced software tools for rating and filtering Internet content. Net Shepherd products use collaborative rating and filtering to allow users to rate the content of URLs for a variety of parameters, then share their ratings with a larger community of users.