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• Whose Book is it Anyway? A View From Elsewhere on Publishing, Copyright and Creativity (Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, c2019), ed. by Janis Jefferies and Sarah Kember (multiple formats with commentary at Open Book Publishers)
• The Work of Authorship (Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2014), ed. by Mireille M. M. van Eechoud (PDF with commentary at oapen.org)
• The Case for Copyright Reform (2012), by Christian Engström and Rick Falvinge (PDF with commentary at falkvinge.net)
• Access to Knowledge for Consumers: Reports of Campaigns and Research, 2008-2010 (Kuala Lumpur: Consumers International, 2010), ed. by Jeremy Malcolm (PDF with commentary at a2knetwork.org)
• Introducing Copyright: A Plain Language Guide to Copyright in the 21st Century (Vancouver, BC: Commonwealth of Learning, 2009), by Julien Hofman (PDF and Epub with commentary at col.org)
• Navigating Copyright for Libraries: Purpose and Scope (IFLA Publications v181; Berlin and Boston: De Gruyter Saur, c2022), ed. by Jessica Coates, Victoria Owen, and Susan Reilly (PDF with commentary at degruyter.com)
• Walled Culture: How Big Content Uses Technology and the Law to Lock Down Culture and Keep Creators Poor (Antwerp: BTF Press, 2022), by Glyn Moody (multiple formats with commentary at walledculture.org)
• Copyright, its History and its Law: Being a Summary of the Principles and Practice of Copyright With Special Reference to the American Code of 1909 and the British Act of 1911 (Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1912), by R. R. Bowker (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Question of Copyright: Comprising the Text of the Copyright Law of the United States, a Summary of the Copyright Laws at Present in Force in the Chief Countries of the World (second edition; New York and London: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1896), by George Haven Putnam (multiple formats at archive.org)
• American Copyright Law (Chicago: Callaghan and Co., 1917), by Arthur W. Weil (multiple formats at archive.org)

• The True History of Copyright: The Australian Experience, 1905-2005 (Sydney: Sydney University Press, c2007), by Benedict A. C. Atkinson (HTML and PDF with commentary in Australia)

• The Copyright Pentalogy: How the Supreme Court of Canada Shook the Foundations of Canadian Copyright Law (Ottawa: University of Ottawa Press, c2013), ed. by Michael A. Geist (PDF with commentary at uottawa.ca)
• From "Radical Extremism" to "Balanced Copyright": Canadian Copyright and the Digital Agenda (2010), ed. by Michael A. Geist (PDF files with commentary at irwinlaw.com)
• In the Public Interest: The Future of Canadian Copyright Law (2005), ed. by Michael A. Geist (PDF files with commentary at irwinlaw.com)

• Interfaces on Trial 2.0 (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2011), by Jonathan Band and Masanobu Katoh (PDF with commentary at MIT Press)
• Understanding Open Source and Free Software Licensing (2004), by Andrew M. St. Laurent (PDF files with commentary at oreilly.com)
• Interfaces on Trial: Intellectual Property and Interoperability in the Global Software Industry (c1995), by Jonathan Band and Masanobu Katoh (PDF at Google Docs)
• Intellectual Property Issues in Software (1991), by National Research Council Computer Science and Telecommunications Board (HTML with commentary at NAP)

• Understanding the Social Impacts of Copyright: International CopyCamp Conference 2014, the Post-Conference Publication (Warsaw: Modern Poland Foundation, 2014), contrib. by Zuzana Adamová, Dimitar Dimitrov, Łukasz Łyczkowski, Yngve Sletthom, Jan Sowa, Marcin Wilkowski, Michał Woźniak, and Jacek Zadrozny
  • multiple formats with commentary at prawokultury.pl
  • multiple formats at archive.org

• What If We Could Reimagine Copyright? (Acton, ACT: ANU Press, c2017), ed. by Rebecca Giblin and Kimberlee Weatherall (multiple formats at ANU Press)

• Open Content Licensing: From Theory to Practice (Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, c2011), ed. by Lucie M. C. R. Guibault and Christina Angelopoulos (PDF with commentary at oapen.org)
• From "Radical Extremism" to "Balanced Copyright": Canadian Copyright and the Digital Agenda (2010), ed. by Michael A. Geist (PDF files with commentary at irwinlaw.com)
• The Digital Difference: Responsible Conduct of Research in a Networked World (2005), by Richard Fyffe and Scott Walter (PDF with commentary at ku.edu)

• A Treatise on the Law of Copyright in Books, Dramatic and Musical Compositions, Letters and Other Manuscripts, Engavings and Sculpture, As Enacted and Administered in England and America (Boston: C. C. Little and J. Brown; London: A. Maxwell and Son, 1847), by George Ticknor Curtis (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Digital Opportunity: A Review of Intellectual Property and Growth (with related documents; 2011), by Ian Hargreaves (PDF with commentary in the UK)
• A Treatise on the Law of Property in Intellectual Productions in Great Britain and the United States (Boston: Little, Brown and Co., 1879), by Eaton S. Drone (multiple formats at archive.org)
• A Treatise on the Law of Copyright and Literary Property (New York: American Law Book Co., 1917), by William Benjamin Hale
  • multiple formats at Google; US access only
  • multiple formats at archive.org

• Copyright for Librarians: The Essential Handbook (Utrecht: EIFL, 2012), by Harvard University Berkman Center for Internet and Society and eIFL.net (multiple formats at eifl.net)

• Privilege and Property: Essays on the History of Copyright (Cambridge, UK: OpenBook, 2010), ed. by Ronan Deazley, Martin Kretschmer, and Lionel Bently (page images at Google)

• The Piracy Crusade: How the Music Industry's War on Sharing Destroys Markets and Erodes Civil Liberties (Amherst and Boston: University of Massachusetts Press, c2013), by Aram Sinnreich (PDF with commentary at piracycrusade.com and various other sites)
• Theft! A History of Music (2017), by Keith Aoki, James Boyle, and Jennifer Jenkins (PDF with commentary at Duke)

• Journal of Copyright in Education and Librarianship (2016-) (full serial archives)

• What If We Could Reimagine Copyright? (Acton, ACT: ANU Press, c2017), ed. by Rebecca Giblin and Kimberlee Weatherall (multiple formats at ANU Press)

• Access to Knowledge for Consumers: Reports of Campaigns and Research, 2008-2010 (Kuala Lumpur: Consumers International, 2010), ed. by Jeremy Malcolm (PDF with commentary at a2knetwork.org)

• Understanding Rights Reversion: When, Why, and How to Regain Copyright and Make Your Book More Available (c2015), by Nicole Cabrera, Jordyn Ostroff, and Brianna Schofield (PDF with commentary at authorsalliance.org)
• Copyright in the Digital Era: Building Evidence for Policy (Washington: National Academies Press, c2013), ed. by Stephen A. Merrill and William J. Raduchel (HTML and PDF at NAP)
• The Librarian's Copyright Companion (second edition; Buffalo: W. S. Hein and Co., 2012), by James S. Heller, Paul Hellyer, and Benjamin J. Keele (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Section 108 Study Group Report: An Independent Report Sponsored by the United States Copyright Office and the National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program of the Library of Congress (2008), by Section 108 Study Group (PDF with commentary at section108.gov)
• Copyright Basics (2000), by Library of Congress Copyright Office (Gutenberg text)
• Copyright Law of the United States of America and Related Laws Contained in Title 17 of the United States Code (Circular 92) (through the 106th Congress, 2000), by United States (Gutenberg text)
• Fair Use for Nonfiction Authors: Common Scenarios with Guidance from Community Practice (Berkeley: Authors Alliance, c2017), by Brianna Schofield and Robert Kirk Walker (PDF at authorsalliance.org)
• Finding the Public Domain: Copyright Review Management System Toolkit (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan, 2016), by Melissa Levine, Richard C. Alder, Justin Bonfiglio, Kristina Eden, and Brian S. Hall (HTML and PDF at Michigan)
• Owning and Using Scholarship: An IP Handbook for Teachers and Researchers (Chicago: Association of College and Resarch Libraries, 2014), by Kevin L. Smith (PDF at ala.org)
• Freedom of Expression ®: Overzealous Copyright Bozos and Other Enemies of Creativity (2005), by Kembrew McLeod (PDF with commentary at kembrew.com)
• Ready to Share: Fashion and the Ownership of Creativity (conference transcript, ca. 2005) (PDF at learcenter.org)
• University Copyright Policies in ARL Libraries (ARL SPEC Kit #138, 1987), by Kenneth D. Crews (page images at HathiTrust)
• Understanding and Negotiating Book Publication Contracts (c2018), by Brianna Schofield, Robert Kirk Walker, Katherine Bridge, Alfredo Diaz, Karen Graefin vom Hagen, Anna Kuksenkova, and Henry Nikogosyan (PDF with commentary at authorsalliance.org)
• The Copyright Law of the United States of America: Being the Act of March 4, 1909 (in force July 1, 1909) As Amended by the Acts of August 24, 1912, March 2, 1913, March 28, 1914, December 18, 1919, July 3, 1926, and May 23, 1928, Together With Rules for Practice and Procedure Under Section 25 by the Supreme Court of the United States (Copyright Offive Bulletin #14; Washington: GPO, 1935), by United States (page images at HathiTrust)
• Against Intellectual Property (Auburn, AL: Ludwig von Mises Institute, 2008), by N. Stephan Kinsella (multiple formats at mises.org)
• Motion Pictures, 1894-1912, Identified From the Records of the United States Copyright Office (1953), by Library of Congress Copyright Office, ed. by Howard Lamarr Walls
  • with errata and addenda: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Gutenberg text
• American Copyright Law (Chicago: Callaghan and Co., 1917), by Arthur W. Weil (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Catalog of Copyright Entries, by Library of Congress Copyright Office (partial serial archives)
• Copyright Basics (current edition), by Library of Congress Copyright Office (PDF at loc.gov)
• Copyright Law of the United States of America and Related Laws Contained in Title 17 of the United States Code (Circular 92) (through the most recent Congress), by United States (HTML at loc.gov)
• Reproduction of Copyrighted Works by Educators and Librarians (Circular 21), by Library of Congress Copyright Office
  • PDF at loc.gov
  • Gutenberg text
• A Treatise on the Law of Copyright and Literary Property (New York: American Law Book Co., 1917), by William Benjamin Hale
  • multiple formats at Google; US access only
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• Catalog of Copyright Entries, Cumulative Series: Motion Pictures, 1912-1939, by Library of Congress Copyright Office
  • Gutenberg text
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• Catalog of Copyright Entries, Cumulative Series: Motion Pictures, 1960-1969, by Library of Congress Copyright Office
  • Gutenberg text
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• Compendium of U.S. Copyright Office Practices (third edition, 2014; with links to earlier editions), by Library of Congress Copyright Office (PDF with commentary at copyright.gov)
• Intellectual Property and the National Information Infrastructure: The Report of the Working Group on Intellectual Property Rights, by Information Infrastructure Task Force (PDF files at uspto.gov)
• The Question of Copyright: Comprising the Text of the Copyright Law of the United States, a Summary of the Copyright Laws at Present in Force in the Chief Countries of the World (second edition; New York and London: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1896), by George Haven Putnam (multiple formats at archive.org)
• A Treatise on the Law of Copyright in Books, Dramatic and Musical Compositions, Letters and Other Manuscripts, Engavings and Sculpture, As Enacted and Administered in England and America (Boston: C. C. Little and J. Brown; London: A. Maxwell and Son, 1847), by George Ticknor Curtis (multiple formats at archive.org)
• A Treatise on the Law of Property in Intellectual Productions in Great Britain and the United States (Boston: Little, Brown and Co., 1879), by Eaton S. Drone (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The American Bookseller's Complete Reference Trade List, and Alphabetical Catalogue of Books Published in This Country, With the Publishers' and Authors' Names and Prices Arranged in Classes for Quick and Convenient Reference (with an article on copyright by Washburn; Claremont, NH: S. Ide, 1847), ed. by Alexander Vietts Blake, contrib. by Peter T. Washburn (page images at HathiTrust)

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