More startup resources
resources)
General Legal Searching
http://www.findlaw.com/index.html
(Findlaw)
http://usgovsearch.northernlight.com/
(US Government search)
http://fedlaw.gsa.gov/ (GSA)
http://www.farislaw.com/ (Farislaw)
http://www.lawguru.com/ilawlib/index.html
(Law Guru)
Legislation
http://thomas.loc.gov/
(text of all pending federal legislation)
http://www.law.vill.edu/fed-agency/fedwebloc.html
(US government website locator)
http://www.vote-smart.org/ (congressional
voting records)
http://congress.nw.dc.us/ala/
(American Library Assoc. tips on lobbying Congress)
US Code
http://www.law.cornell.edu:80/uscode/
(Searchable, user friendly)
http://law.house.gov/usc.htm
(More awkward, includes some legislative history)
http://www.access.gpo.gov/nara/cfr/cfr-table-search.html
(CFR)
http://law.house.gov/7.htm
(Federal Register)
http://www.gpo.ucop.edu/search/fedfld.html
(Fed Reg searchable)
http://law.house.gov/uscct.htm
(Code classification tables)
Court Information
http://www.uscourts.gov/allinks.html
(Federal Judiciary homepage, links to courts)
http://law.house.gov/6.htm
(Links to most online courts, federal and state; copies of selected cases,
court rules)
http://www.mapquest.com/ (Map
Quest for directions to the courthouse)
Judicial Opinions: It's not soup yet!
See also Law Schools and Legal
Associations
http://pacer.psc.uscourts.gov/pubaccess.html
Automated Information in the United States Federal Courts (PACER, CARS,
court dockets, slip opinions, etc.) ($)
http://www.findlaw.com/
(search all case law from one site)
http://www.ll.georgetown.edu/Fed-Ct/
(search federal case law from one site)
http://supct.law.cornell.edu/supct/
(S. Ct. opinions since 1990 and growing)
http://www.findlaw.com/casecode/supreme.html
(S.Ct. cases since 1893)
http://www.law.emory.edu/1circuit/
(1st Circuit)
http://www.findlaw.com/casecode/district.html
(federal district courts)
http://www.callaw.com/hotdocs/ip.html
($ Counsel Connect; inexpensive, but limited)
http://westdoc.com ($8 per opinion
retrieved)
http://www.versuslaw.com/ ($
Versus Law; $75 a month)
http://www.pita.com ($ Lois)
http://www.westlaw.com/ ($$)
http://www.lexis.com/ ($$)
http://www.bender.com/bender/open/Webdriver?MIval=index_shepards
(Shepardize, pay by the search)
(see Cyberlaw below)
http://www.bna.com/e-law/libindex.html
(BNA selected cases)
http://www.perkinscoie.com/resource/ecomm/ecomm.htm
(Perkins Coie Internet Case Digest)
http://www.phillipsnizer.com/internetlib.htm
(Phillips Nizer case summaries)
http://www.jmls.edu/cyber/index.html
(John Marshall Law School)
http://www.loundy.com/E-LAW_Links.html
(David Loundy's E-law Locator)
http://www.loundy.com/CASES/
(David Loundy's index of selected cases)
http://www.cmcnyls.edu/public/USCases.htm
(New York Law School Communications Media Center)
State Resources
http://www.ljextra.com/courthouse/statelinks.html
(State courts online)
http://www.state.ma.us/ (Massachusetts
state government homepage)
http://www.magnet.state.ma.us/legis/laws/mgl/index.htm
(MGL)
http://lcweb.loc.gov/global/state/stategov.html
(Directory of state government sites)
http://www.socialaw.com/ (Social
Law)
http://www.lawyersweekly.com/masslaw.htm
(Lawyers Weekly)
Foreign (mostly European) Law
http://babelfish.altavista.digital.com/cgi-bin/translate?
(AltaVista translator)
http://www.law.nyu.edu/library/foreign_intl/
Guide to Foreign and International Legal Databases
http://law.house.gov/89.htm
(Treaty laws)
http://itl.irv.uit.no/trade_law/nav/organisations.html
(Links to international organizations)
http://www.asil.org/resource/home.htm
(ASIL Guide to Electronic Resources for International Law)
http://www.lib.uchicago.edu/~llou/forintlaw.html
(List of foreign resources)
http://www.law.harvard.edu/library/ils/ilslink2.html#int
law (Links to international bodies)
http://europa.eu.int/eur-lex/en/index.html
(European Union law)
http://europa.eu.int/comm/off/index_en.htm
(European Commission official documents/directives)
http://www2.echo.lu/legal/en/browse.html
(EC's Legal Advisory Board reports on EU case law)
http://europa.eu.int/cj/en/index.htm
(Court of Justice of the EC; free weekly reports)
http://www.wipo.org/eng/newindex/intellct.htm
(WIPO IP site)
http://www.wto.org/wto/intellec/intellec.htm
(WTO IP page)
http://www.mossbyrett.of.no/info/links.html
(Links to national Supreme Court decisions in native languages)
http://www.courtservice.gov.uk/highhome.htm
(UK judgments)
http://www.hg.org/wrtopic.html
(Hieros Gamos links to national IP law in English, but dated)
http://www.juriscom.net/droit/
(Juriscom, French Internet case law, en francais)
Computer Law
http://www.softwareprotection.com/
(Fenwick & West legal protection for software)
http://www.siia.net (Software
& Information Industry Assoc. (formerly Software Publisher's Assoc.)
http://www.acm.org/usacm/ (US
Assoc. for Computing Machinery)
http://www2.echo.lu/legal/en/ipr/database/database.html
(EC Database Directive)
http://www.SoftwareIndustry.org/issues/guide/
(UCC 2B Guide)
http://www.software.ucla.edu/WWWboard/SLAboard.htm
UCLA BBS
See other subject headings
Y2K
http://www.ispo.cec.be/y2keuro/
(EC site, voted best by Wall Street Journal)
http://www.lawsight.com/2k.htm
(West Group resource site)
http://www.year2000law.net/
(Y2K law site)
http://www.fcc.gov/year2000/
(FCC Y2K site)
Practicing Law Institute Y2K listserv.
To subscribe send a message to: listserv@pli.edu
In the body of the message type: Subscribe PLI-Y2Klaw
FirstName LastName
Copyright
http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/
(17 USC et seq)
http://www.gseis.ucla.edu/iclp/dmca1.htm
(Digital Millennium Copyright Act)
http://www.law.cornell.edu/treaties/berne/overview.html
(Berne)
http://www.law.cornell.edu/topics/copyright.html
(Excellent resource page of links including treaties)
http://lcweb.loc.gov/copyright/
(US Copyright Office homepage)
http://fairuse.stanford.edu/primary/index.html#caselaw
(Stanford Fair Use site)
http://www.ljx.com/copyright/cpres.html
(LJX Copyright page including links to IP trade and legal associations)
http://www.cni.org/Hforums/cni-copyright/
(Archives for cni-copyright listserv)
http://www.nlc-bnc.ca/ifla/II/cpyright.htm
(IFLA list of global copyright resources)
http://www.SoftwareIndustry.org/issues/guide/
(UCC 2B Guide)
http://www.acm.org/usacm/copyright/
(US ACM)
http://www.law.wfu.edu/library/copyright/
(Permissions
page for academics, good links to publishers)
http://www.copyright.com/ Copyright
Clearance Center
http://www.ascap.com/weblicense/webintro.html
(ASCAP)
http://bmi.com/licensing/ (BMI)
http://www.sesac.com/licence.htm
(SESAC)
http://www.nwu.org/nwu/ (National
Writers Union)
http://www.imprimatur.alcs.co.uk/
(Imprimatur, EU copyright management system project)
Cyberlaw
Cases
http://www.bna.com/e-law/libindex.html#recent_decisions
BNA's Electronic Commerce & Law Report
http://www.jmls.edu/cyber/index/index.html
(older collection of cyberlaw opinions)
http://www.Loundy.com/E-LAW_Links.html
(case law collection)
http://www.perkinscoie.com/resource/ecomm/netcase/index.htm
http://www.bna.com/e-law/libindex.html#recent_decisions
(BNA e-law cases)
http://www.ssrn.com/update/lsn/cyberspace/csl_lessons.html
(Cyber-space Law for Non-Lawyers)
http://eon.law.harvard.edu/property/
(Berkman Center for Internet & Society, Harvard Law School)
Issues
Intellectual Property
in Cyberspace Prof. William T. Fisher, Berkman Center, Harvard Law
School
http://www.cyberspacelaw.org/
(Learning Law in Cyberspace)
http://www.epic.org/privacy/
(EPIC privacy page)
ISPI Clips is a FREE e-mail service from the "Institute for the Study
of Privacy Issues" (ISPI). To receive "ISPI Clips" on a regular bases (up
to 3 - 8 clips per day) send the following message "Please enter
[Your Name] into the ISPI Clips list: [Your e-mail address]" to:
ISPIClips@ama-gi.com .
http://www2.echo.lu/legal/en/dataprot/directiv/directiv.html
(EU
Directive on personal data)
http://www.aclu.org/issues/cyber/hmcl.html
(ACLU
cyberliberties)
http://www.w3c.org/P3P/ (WWW
Consortium privacy protocols)
http://www.iitf.nist.gov/eleccomm/ecomm.htm#uniform
(Bill & Al's Framework for E-Commerce)
http://www.ntia.doc.gov/
(National Telecommunications and Information Administration)
http://www.ljx.com/internet/
(LJX
Internet law news)
http://ksgwww.harvard.edu/iip/
(Harvard
Information Infrastructure Project)
http://www.isoc.org/internet/law/
(Internet
Society list of Internet law links)
Domain Name System
http://www.netsol.com/ (Network
Solutions, Inc. registration homepage. Whois lookup)
http://www.geektools.com/whois.html
(Global Whois lookup)
http://www.websitez.com/index.html
(Expanded domain name search)
http://www.vi.net/names/globalsearch.html
(Global domain search)
ftp://rs.internic.net/archives/domain-policy/
(NSI
domain dispute policy archives)
http://www.netnamesusa.com/
(ccTLD domain registration policies)
http://www.domainhandbook.com/
(domain name system resource materials under "Contents")
ftp://rs.internic.net/policy/internic/internic-domain-6.txt
(NSI current dispute policy)
http://www.patents.com/nsi.sht
(Oppedahl & Larson's NSI's Flawed Domain Name Policy info page)
http://www.wia.org/ (Internet governance
map)
http://cyber.harvard.edu/ifwp/
(Berkman Center for Internet & Society, DNS governance debates)
http://www.jmls.edu/cyber/index/domain.html
(John Marshall Law School Domain Name Disputes)
http://www.Loundy.com/JMLS-Trademark.html
(David Loundy's Primer on Trademark and Domain Names)
Listservs: domain-policy and IFWP
Patent Law
http://www.uspto.gov/ (U.S. Patent
and Trademark Office)
http://www.patents.ibm.com/
(Patent Searching from IBM)
http://sunsite.unc.edu/patents/intropat.html
(Internet patent search)
http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/35/
(35 USC et seq)
http://www.piug.org/select.html#dss
(list of US and foreign patent databases)
Trademark
http://www.law.cornell.edu/lanham/lanham.table.html
(Lanham Act)
http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/15/ch22.html
(15 USC 22)
http://www.uspto.gov/tmdb/index.html
(USPTO trademark search; limited)
http://www.uspto.gov/teas/
(U.S. Patent and Trademark Office online tm registration)
http://oami.eu.int/en/marque/form.htm
(OHIM online registration forms)
http://www.inta.org/ (International
Trademark Assoc.)
http://oami.eu.int/en/default.htm
(OHIM Community Trademark)
http://www.naming.com/icclasses.html
(Naming classes)
http://www.jmls.edu/cyber/index/tm.html
(John Marshall Law School)
http://www.law.cornell.edu/topics/trademark.html
(Resource list)
http://www.thomson-thomson.com/
(T&T's online search products and Saegis)
http://www.magnet.state.ma.us/sec/cor/cortmsm/tmsminf.htm
(MA Trademark info and forms)
INTA listserv
Send an e-mail message to: subscribe@inta.org
In the message box, write: subscribe inta
Trade Secrets/Unfair Practices
http://www.execpc.com/~mhallign/
(Mark Halligan's site; dated)
http://www.magnet.state.ma.us/legis/laws/mgl/index.htm
(search MA code)
http://www.ftc.gov/ (Federal Trade
Commission)
http://www.law.cornell.edu/topics/unfair_competition.html
(resource list)
Telecommunications
http://www.fcc.gov/ (Federal Communiations
Commission)
http://www.state.ma.us/dpu/
(MA Dept of Telecommunications and Energy)
http://www.ntia.doc.gov/ (Nat'l
Telecommunications and Information Administration)
http://www.telecommunications.com/pages/guide.htm
(Lingo guide)
Legal Association Sites Covering IP
http://www.aipla.org/ American
Intellectual Property Law Association
http://www.ipo.org/ Intellectual
Property Owners Association
http://www.inta.org/ International
Trademark Association
http://www.ladas.com/ (Ladas &
Parry IP pages)
http://www.patents.com/ (Oppedahl
& Larson)
http://www.perkinscoie.com/resource/ecomm/ecomm.htm
(Perkins Coie Case Digest)
http://www.phillipsnizer.com/internetlib.htm
(Phillips Nizer case summaries)
http://www.cyberlaw.se/gcln/index.htm
(Global Cyberlaw Network)
TechLaw
Organizations
http://www.SoftwareIndustry.org/
(Computer Software Industry Association)
http://www.bsa.org/ (Business Software
Alliance)
http://www.cla.org/ (Computer Law
Association)
http://www.epic.org/ (Electronic
Privacy Information Center)
http://www.webcom.com/software/issues/index.html
(Software Industries)
http://eff.org/ (Electronic Frontier
Foundation)
http://info.isoc.org/index.html(Internet
Society)
http://www.iana.org/ (Internet Assigned
Numbers Authority)
http://www.siia.net/program/default.htm
(Software & Information Industry Assocation)
Law Schools
http://eon.law.harvard.edu/property/
Intellectual Property in Cyberpspace, Prof. William T. Fisher, Harvard
Law School
http://jurist.law.pitt.edu/
(Collected law school course syllabi)
http://www.jmls.edu/cyber/index/domain.html
(John
Marshall) http://www.jmls.edu/cyber/index/domain.html
http://www.ipmall.fplc.edu/ (Franklin
Pierce IP Mall)
http://www.cli.org/DPost/index.html
(David
Post)
http://www.osu.edu/units/law/swire.htm
(Peter Swire, privacy and e-commerce)
Law Reviews/Journals
http://www.lawreview.org/ (Search
all online law reviews)
http://www.washlaw.edu/lawjournal/lawjournal.html
(Washburn U School of Law)
http://www.urich.edu/~jolt/ (Richmond
Journal of Law & Technology)