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The number of general legal sites on the
Internet is increasing exponentially. Every university,
bar association and attorney is anxious to get their legal articles on the web before it is
"too late". The biggest problem facing legal researchers is not finding
sources of legal information on the Internet,
but finding on-topic sources which address their particular concerns. The following
list organizes these Secondary Sources according to source and topic.
As is the case will all areas of BitLaw, this list emphasizes intellectual property issues
and other concerns of computer and Internet companies. Note that this page lists the
sources of legal information, not the articles and memos actually found at those sources.
A guide to selected legal articles and memos is available at BitLaw's
Articles page.
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the following subheadings:
     
- Searching Law Reviews
- Searching the On-Line Law Reviews: FindLaw
- The FindLaw database allows users to search the full text of numerous on-line
law reviews.
- Technology Law Reviews
- Berkeley Technology Law Journal Home Page
- Published by Boalt Hall School of Law, University of California at Berkeley.
- The Cardozo Arts and Entertainment
Law Journal
- Published by the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law.
- Federal Communications Law Journal
- Published by the Indiana University School of Law - Bloomington and the Federal
Communications Bar Association.
- Harvard Journal of Law & Technology
- Published by Harvard Law School.
- Journal of Information, Law & Technology
- Published by CTI Law Technology Centre at University of Warwick (United
Kingdom) and Centre for Law, Computers and Technology at Strathclyde University
(United Kingdom).
- Journal of Online Law
- This Journal appears only on-line and is edited with the William and Mary
School of Law.
- Journal of Technology Law & Policy
- Published by the University of Florida College of Law.
- Michigan Telecommunications and Technology
Law Review
- Published by the University of Michigan.
- Richmond Journal of Law & Technology
- Published by the University of Richmond.
- Technology Law Magazines and Columns
- Chicago Daily Law
Bulletin Technology Law Column
- This site is maintained by David J. Loundy, the author of the Technology
Law Column.
- The Computer Law Observer
- This electronic newsletter discusses legal issues relating to computers,
technology and the Internet, and is written by attorney
William S. Galkin, Esq.
- Computer Law Review and Technology Journal
- The Journal is published quarterly at the Southern Methodist
School of Law, in cooperation with the Computer Section of the State Bar of Texas.
- CyberLaw (tm) & CyberLex (tm)
- A web site which includes periodic articles on legal developments affecting
the Internet, written by California attorney Jonathan Rosenoer.
- New York Times CyberTimes
- The CyberTimes is one of the best sources of Internet news anywhere!
- Intellectual Property Magazine
- Published by the American Lawyer Media group.
- Law Journal Extra (LJX)
- One of the best sources for legal news, LJX has specific pages on recent
developments in patent law,
copyright law,
trademark law,
Internet law, and
IP law in general.
- American Bar Association
- The ABA page contains a large index of law related resources,
as well as links to relevant articles, government agencies, and
other general legal sites.
- American Intellectual Property Law
Association
- The AIPLA is a 10,000 member organization for attorneys practicing
in intellectual property. Their site includes various general information
articles on IP law, as well as information about the organization.
- Minnesota State Bar Association
- The Minnesota State Bar Association (MSBA) is an organization of over
14,000 Minnesota attorneys. While not required by law, most Minnesota
attorneys decide to join the MSBA.
- MSBA Internet Law Committee
- The Internet Law Committee of the Minnesota State Bar Association developed
this page to provide meeting announcements and to list Minnesota attorneys with
expertise and interest in Internet law topics.
- Minnesota Intellectual Property Law
Association
- The web page of this organization of Minnesota I.P. attorneys is still in its
infancy, but it does include basic information on patents, copyrights and trademarks.
- HIEROS GAMOS
- Heiros Gamos is one of the largest legal sites on the Internet. The site is
sponsored by Lex Mundi, an Association of 131 Independent Law Firms.
Found on this site is a listing of over 6000 law related
organizations as well as a good index to international government resources
on the Internet.
- Counsel Connect Web
- Counsel Connect membership and access is restricted to practicing lawyers
(professional staff working under lawyer-members' supervision also are allowed
limited access). This resource claims to be the largest online community
for lawyers.
- CourtTV
- A surprisingly useful site, CourtTV provides late breaking legal news
as well as documents from important cases (including
intellectual property and computer industry cases).
- Cyberspace Law Center
- This site, maintained by a web site construction firm, contains an excellent
index on legal sites.
- DaVinci Design Resources
- This page includes basic information on patent, trademark, and copyright law.
- The 'Lectric Law Library
- An impressive resource of legal information and links, brought together
in a sometimes humorous and often irreverent context. This site is highly
recommended.
- Legal dot Net
- The Legal dot Net site is a general purpose legal site designed for both
attorneys and non-attorneys.
- The Legal List
- The legal list is a consolidated guide produced by Lawyer's
Cooperative Publishing to all of the law-related
resources available on (and off) the Internet. Available in both written versions and
on the web, this is one of the most comprehensive listings
of legal sources on the Internet.
- The National Law Journal--Law Journal Extra
- The Law Journal Extra is primarily designed for attorneys who agree to
pay the $10 per month membership fee, although the site does contain many
articles and sources of information which are available to non-members. The
Intellectual
Property News section of this web site is a great resource for information
on recent developments in IP law.
- Nolo Press
- This page provides an introduction to Nolo Press, the largest source
of self-help legal information in the United States. The site includes some
basic legal information, but often refers the reader to their
written publications for more details.
- The Practicing Attorney's Home Page
- This "Web Page Set" is provided by Internet Legal Services, a consulting company that
assists law firms with the integration of the Internet into the practice of law. This
site includes numerous legal links as well as one of the best sites for researching
attorney ethical issues concerning the Internet.
- The Seamless Web Site
- One of the largest commercial sites, the Seamless web site combines a
large index of legal links with hosting services for multiple law firms.
Attorneys associated with the Seamless web site have posted legal articles
in a articles section.
- Thomson & Thomson-$
- Thomson & Thomson is the largest and one of the most highly respected
trademark searching service in the world. Thomson & Thomson provide not
only searching services, but are also the providers of Trademarkscan, a pay per search
trademark database available on Dialog and Westlaw.
- VersusLaw
- Formerly Lawyer's Legal Research, the Versus (or "V.") web site provides
a one-stop site for legal research. The Versus database includes court cases
from every federal jurisdiction and from state appellate courts. The database
does not go back as far as Lexis and Westlaw, but it is much more comprehensive
that other (free) sources of case law on the Internet. Current pricing ranges
from $14.95 per day to $595 per year (unlimited usage).
- Cornell Law School: Legal Information Institute
- The Legal Information Institute (LII) web site is authored and maintained
by Cornell Law School.
This site contains a wealth of primary source materials, including statutes
and regulations.
- Franklin Pierce: The Intellectual Property Mall Page
- The Intellectual Property Mall is a web site developed by the Franklin
Pierce Law Center as a one-stop source for intellectual property
law information on the web. The site contains a comprehensive listing
of legal links, as well as some original materials on intellectual property
law.
- Georgetown University
- Georgetown's web site is created by the law school's library, and includes
numerous links to governmental and private legal sources. The site also includes
a good discussion of domain name trademark disputes.
- Indiana University School of Law - Bloomington
- This site includes good index of legal materials on all subjects.
- Stanford University: Copyright & Fair Use
- Stanford University has created a model site in the effort to provide useful,
focused legal web sites. This site contains source material and original
legal analysis on fair use in copyright law, and is highly recommended.
- Villanova Center for Information Law and Policy
- Sponsored by the Villanova University School of Law, this site has many
useful links and some source materials.
- Washburn University
School of Law: WashLaw
- The WashLaw site includes a comprehensive listing of listservs maintained
by the University, as well as archives of those listservs.
- ACLU Freedom Network
- A good resource for up-to-the-minute information on cyber-liberties issues
such as the Communications Decency Act litigation.
- ASCAP
- ASCAP, or the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers, is an
organization of music composers, songwriters, and music publishers. ASCAP's function
is to protect the rights of its members by licensing and paying royalties for
the public performances of their copyrighted works.
- BMI
- Like ASCAP, BMI is a non-profit organization representing songwriters,
composers, and music publishers. BMI distributes royalties to its
songwriters, composers, and publishers, for the public performance and digital
home copying of their works.
- The BUBL Information Service
- BUBL (BUlletin Board for Libraries), created by a United Kingdom association
of libraries and Universities, is a fantastic web site for finding
all types of information on the world wide web, including legal and intellectual
property information. They are experimenting with a replacement for BUBL called
LINK (LIbraries of Networked
Knowledge).
- Computer Software Industry
Association
- This site hosts both the Computer Software Industry Association and the Silicon
Valley Software Industry Coalition. In addition, the site contains
issue pages focusing on topics
of interest to members of the software industry.
- Copyright Clearance Center
- The Copyright Clearance Center (CCC) is a non-profit organization set up to
help in the licensing of copyrighted works for personal, internal, or academic purposes.
- EFFweb - The Electronic Frontier Foundation
- The EFFweb site contains a good intellectual property archive of articles
and court materials.
- Electronic Privacy Information Center
- EPIC's web site contains a great deal of information and analysis of
privacy issues on the Internet.
- The Harry Fox Agency (HFA)
- HFA is an organization established by the National Music Publishers'
Association, to license the mechanical recordation
rights of music publishers. HFA differs from organizations such as ASCAP, BMI and
SESAC, in that those organizations license performance rights, and not mechanical
rights.
- Graphic Artists Guild
- The Graphic Artists Guild is an organization of graphic artists designed to
meet the needs and interests of its members.
- International Trademark Association
- The INTA web site is a great site to learn more about U.S. and International
trademark law.
- The Motion Picture Licensing Corporation
- (MPLC) is an independent copyright
licensing service exclusively authorized to grant Umbrella Licenses to organizations
and institutions for public performances of home videocassettes and videodiscs.
- Publications Rights
Clearinghouse
- The Publications Rights Clearinghouse, or PRC, is an organization of free-lance
authors seeking to license its members works and to collect and distribute royalties.
- SESAC
- SESAC, Inc., is a performing rights organization, like ASCAP and BMI, that
represents songwriters and publishers. SESAC licenses the right for its members
music to be performed in public.
- Software Publishers Association
- The Software Publishers Association contains a great deal of information
about software piracy and includes discussions of several books discussing
legal issues affecting software developers.
- World Wide Legal Information Association
- The World Wide Legal Information Association is a non-profit
(pro bono) legal information organization, dedicated to making
legal information available through the World Wide Web. Their web site contains
a great deal of legal information on a variety of subjects, as well as a large
listing of law firms from throughout the world.
- Indexes and Searching Engines
- Liszt
- The most comprehensive listing of mailing lists on all topics.
- DejaNews
- One of the most popular searching tools for searching through the Usenet.
- Reference.COM
- A newer usenet searching engine, Reference.COM also includes searches of popular
mailing lists and web forums.
- Alta Vista
- Alta Vista, by Digital, provides not only a searching tool for the Usenet but also
one of the better World Wide Web searching tools as well.
- Law Lists
- This listing of legal mailing lists and Usenet newsgroups was created and is
maintained by Lyonette Louis-Jacques at the University of Chicago.
- The Legal Domain Network
- The Legal Domain Network provides read-only access to law-related Usenet
discussion groups and Internet mailing lists. The Legal Domain Network also ports
many legal mailing lists to Usenet newsgroups and then allows for full text searching
of the contents of these law-related groups.
- WashLAW-Listservs
- The Washburn University School of Law is host to many legal related lists.
This site provides an index to those lists, and also contains archives for
those lists.
- Mailing Lists
- Coalition for Networked Information's Copyright &
Intellectual Property Forum
- To subscribe, send the following message to
listproc@cni.org:
subscribe cni-copyright Your Name
- Computer Privacy Digest
- To subscribe, send the following message to
comp-privacy-request@uwm.edu:
subscribe comp-privacy Your Name
- Cyber-Rights; Campaign for Citizens Rights
in Cyberspace
- Sponsored by the Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility. To
subscribe, send the following message to
listserv@cpsr.org:
subscribe
cyber-rights Your Name
- CYBERIA-L; The Law and Policy of
Computer Communications
- Formerly known as CYBERLAW and CYBERLAW-L. A web archive of the Cyberia
mailing list can be found on the Law
Journal Extra site.
To subscribe, send the following message to
listserv@listserv.aol.com:
subscribe cyberia-l Your Name
- EFFector-Online
- A newsletter by the Electronic Frontier Foundation on cyber-rights and
intellectual property issues on the Internet. To subscribe send the following
message to listserv@eff.org:
subscribe effector-online
- INFO-LAW (Computers in Law)
- To subscribe send the following message to
info-law-request@brl.mil:
subscribe info-law Your Name
- LAW-IPR
- A list on intellectual property and Internet law from a European and
United Kingdom perspective. To subscribe send the following message to
mailbase@mailbase.ac.uk:
subscribe law-ipr Your Name
- LEGALETHICS-L
- A list on Legal Ethics, especially in connection with Ethics on the Net,
sponsored by the American Bar Association and the Catholic University School
of Law. To subscribe send the following message to
listserv@lawlib.wuacc.edu:
subscribe legalethics-L Your Name
- LIBLICENSE-L
- A list on the topic of Electronic Content Licensing for Academic & Research
Libraries sponsored by the Yale University Library.
To subscribe send the following message to
listproc@pantheon.yale.edu:
subscribe LIBLICENSE-L Your Name
- NET-LAWYERS
- A popular moderated list for lawyers related to the use of the Internet in the
practice of law. An
archive of this list is available including postings starting
November 1996. The Law
Journal Extra site provides a very useful index of the mailing list. Finally,
an archive of earlier postings is maintained at
Washburn University. To
subscribe, send the following message
to listserv@peach.ease.lsoft.com
subscribe net-lawyers your name
To subscribe to the digest version of NET-LAWYERS, send the following message
mailto:listserv@peach.ease.lsoft.com
set net-lawyers mail digests
- PATENT-L
- A patent discussion list hosted by the Washburn University School of Law.
An archive of this list is maintained at
the University. To subscribe, send an Internet e-mail message
to listserv@ftplaw.wuacc.edu:
subscribe PATENT-L your name
- TECH-LAW
- Sponsored by Marger Johnson McCollom & Stolowitz. To subscribe, send
the following message to
listserver@techlaw.com:
subscribe tech-law
- WebEthics
- A list for discussion of how the Rules of Professional Conduct impact the
use of the Internet by Attorneys. To subscribe send the
following message to majordomo@homecom.com:
subscribe webethics [Your E-mail Address]
- WebRights-L
- A list for discussion on issues of copyright, intellectual property, and ethics on
web publication. To subscribe send the following message to
majordomo@list.pitt.edu:
subscribe webrights-l [Your E-mail Address]
LAW-IPR@mailbase.ac.uk (list for discussion of UK and European issues in Intellectual Property law, with special reference to the impact of
information technology and the Internet)
Send the following message to mailbase@mailbase.ac.uk:
subscribe law-ipr [your firstname] [your lastname]
The JANET address is mailbase@uk.ac.mailbase
- Usenet Newsgroups
- comp.patents
- A rarely used newsgroup on computer patents.
- courts.usa.federal.supreme
- This newsgroup usually contains the full-text of recent Supreme Court decisions.
- misc.legal
- Unmoderated legal discussion newsgroup which typically contains some discussions
on IP and Internet law. This appears to be the most popular legal
newsgroup.
- misc.legal.computing
- A more focused newsgroup than misc.legal, this group focuses on legal
issues relating to computers.
- misc.legal.moderated
- A moderated newsgroup, which means more on-topic discussions than
misc.legal but fewer contributors.
- misc.int-property
- A good source for discussions on intellectual property laws. An
archive of this newsgroup is available.
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