>A good place to find out about this stuff without the legalese is >http://www.chillingeffects.org/ It's a joint project between the EFF, >Harvard, Stanford, Berkley, Uni of San Fransisco and the Uni of Maine law >school. The have nice easy FAQs of copyrights, patents and a whole bunch of >other stuff. >It's quite interesting and a bit scary. Without getting too involved in this conversation which will hopefully die out in a day or so, other good places to look are the following links, they provide information in "Intellectual Property Law" which is what category Copyright Law falls into: Stanford University's FAQ re: Copyright Law http://www-sul.stanford.edu/cpyright.html Findlaw's outlines and other information re: intellectual property law everything here is geared toward the student so it is pretty much put in simple terms: http://stu.findlaw.com/outlines/intellectual.html Here is another student outline I found good, it is in word format though, so you will have to download it or open it: www.law.nyu.edu/studentorgs/sba/outlines/upperlevel/copyright/litman_s00.doc _________________________________________________________________ STOP MORE SPAM with the new MSN 8 and get 2 months FREE* http://join.msn.com/?page=features/junkmail