U.S. GOVERNMENT ENTITIES

Office of the United States Trade Representative
600 17th Street, S.W.
Washington, D.C. 20506 U.S.A.
Tel: 202-586-8880
Fax: 202-395-3911
Internet: http://www.ustr.gov
Internet site includes reports, speeches, press releases, and other documentation on a range of trade-related subjects, including intellectual property.

U.S. Department of Commerce
International Trade Administration
14th Street and Constitution Avenue, N.W.
Washington, D.C. 20230 U.S.A.
Tel: 202-482-3809
Fax: 202-482-4281
Internet: http://www.ita.doc.gov/legal/ipr.html
Internet site includes periodically updated articles on U.S. intellectual property rights laws, “Special 301” enforcement activities, and the TRIPS Agreement.

U.S. Department of Commerce
Patent and Trademark Office
Crystal Park
Arlington, Virginia 22202 U.S.A.
Tel: 703-305-9300
Internet: http://www.uspto.gov/
Internet site provides access to information on intellectual property, including rules, advice, definitions, submission forms, fees, and more.

U.S. Department of State
Bureau of Economic and Business Affairs
Office of Trade Policy and Programs
2201 C Street, N.W.
Washington, D.C. 20520 U.S.A.
Tel: 202-647-1310
Internet: http://www.state.gov/www/issues/economic
Internet site contains a host of information on economic and trade topics arranged by current issues; press statements; remarks, testimony, and briefings; topics; and country information.

U.S. Library of Congress
United States Copyright Office
101 Independence Avenue, S.E.
Washington, D.C. 20540 U.S.A.
Tel: 202-707-8350
Internet: http://lcweb.loc.gov/copyright
Internet site presents a publication titled “Copyright Basics,” as well as information on copyright, including frequently asked questions, and documents of the World Intellectual Property Organization.

INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS

European Patent Office
Erhardtstrasse 27
D-80331 Munich
Germany
Tel: (+49 89) 22 99 - 0
Fax: (+49 89) 23 99 - 44 65
Internet: http://www.epo.co.at/epo
Internet site includes general information about the European Patent Office, official communications, a patent information center, a toolbox for applicants, and patent information products.

World Intellectual Property Organization
P.O. Box 18
CH-1211 Geneva 20, Switzerland
Tel: +41-22 338 9111
Fax: +41-22 733 54 28
Internet: http://www.wipo.int
Internet site provides the history and objectives of this organization, as well as a list of its members, the texts of treaties it administers, and a list of contracting parties or signatories to these treaties.

World Trade Organization
154 Rue de Lausanne
CH-1211 Geneva 21, Switzerland
Internet: http://www.wto.org
Internet site, in addition to providing general information about the WTO, includes special sections on such topics as goods, services, environment, development, dispute settlement, and intellectual property.

ASSOCIATIONS AND TRADE ORGANIZATIONS

American Intellectual Property Law Association
2001 Jefferson Davis Highway
Suite 203
Arlington, Virginia 22202 U.S.A.
Tel: 703-415-0780
Fax: 703-415-0786
Internet: http://www.aipla.org
Internet site provides information aimed at improving laws relating to patents, trademarks, copyrights, unfair competition, and other fields of intellectual property.

American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers
One Lincoln Plaza
New York, New York 10023 U.S.A.
Tel: 212-621-6000
Internet: http://www.ascap.com/
Internet site for this membership association of over 68,000 composers, songwriters, lyricists, and music publishers provides information aimed at protecting the rights of its members by licensing and paying royalties for the public performance of their copyrighted works.

Association of American Publishers, Inc.
1718 Connecticut Avenue, N.W., #700
Washington, D.C., 20009-1148 U.S.A.
Tel: 202-232-3335
Fax: 202-745-0694
Internet: http://www.publishers.org
Internet site for the principal trade association of the U.S. book publishing industry contains information on copyright and electronic publishing.

Business Software Alliance
1150 18th Street, N.W.
Suite 700
Washington, D.C. 20036 U.S.A.
Tel: 202-872-5500
Fex: 202-872-5501
Internet: http://www.bsa.org
Internet site reports on the activities of a software-industry organization with piracy enforcement programs in 65 countries and anti-piracy hotlines operating in nearly all nations; includes a list of international addresses of BSA offices.

International Intellectual Property Alliance
1747 Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W.
Washington, D.C., 20006 U.S.A.
Tel: 202-833-4198
Fax: 202-872-0546
Internet: http://www.iipa.com
Internet site includes general information on the IIPA (a coalition that represents U.S. copyright-based industries in bilateral and multilateral efforts to improve the international protection of copyrighted works), as well as reports on worldwide piracy by country and issue.

Motion Picture Association of America
1600 Eye Street, N.W.
Washington, D.C. 20006 U.S.A.
Tel: 202-293-1966
Internet: http://www.mpaa.org
Internet site for this organization and its international counterpart, the Motion Picture Association, which serve as a voice for the motion picture, home video, and television industries, includes information on MPAA anti-piracy efforts and its positions on laws and regulations governing the industries.

Music Publishers Association
1353 River Road
Teaneck, New Jersey 07666 U.S.A.
Tel: 201-287-1324
Fax: 201-287-9226
Internet: http://www.mpa.org
Through its copyright resource centers, disseminates copyright information with the aim of increasing copyright responsibility; also includes links to music information resources on the World Wide Web.

National Music Publishers Association
711 Third Avenue
New York, New York 10017 U.S.A.
Tel: 212-370-5330
Fax: 212-953-2384
Internet: http://www.nmpa.org
Internet site for this association — which is concerned with legislative, legal, and educational matters related to copyright and new technology — includes extensive frequently asked questions about copyright and licensing.

Software Publishers Association
1730 M Street, N.W.
Suite 700
Washington, D.C. 20036-4510 U.S.A.
Tel: 202-452-1600
Internet: http://www.siia.net
Internet site provides information related to fighting software piracy.

EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS (Internet sites)

Cornell University
http://www.law.cornell.edu:80/topics/copyright.html
Provides source materials on U.S. copyright law.

Franklin Pierce Law Center
http://www.fplc.edu/pointbox.htm
Provides hundreds of pointers to information on general intellectual property resources, patents, copyrights, trademarks, trade secrets, and computers.

Hal R. Varian's “The Information Economy” Website
http://www.sims.berkeley.edu/resources/infoecon/index.html
Contains links to general sites on intellectual property, as well as to sites dealing specifically with intellectual property policy and law, industry affairs and community, copyright and patent, and superdistribution.

Harvard Information Infrastructure Project
http://www.ksg.harvard.edu/iip
Describes a Harvard University-based project for addressing a wide range of emerging policy issues related to the information infrastructure, including intellectual property, Internet coordination and administration, and electronic commerce and industry.

John Marshall Law School
http://www.jmls.edu
Presents legal information and general reference materials; includes information on libraries, bar associations, and other law schools.

Stanford University, Copyright and Fair Use
http://fairuse.stanford.edu/
Includes such primary materials as statutes, judicial opinions, and treaties and conventions; current legislation; and an overview of copyright law.

Stanford University, Legal Information Institute
http://palimpsest.stanford.edu/bytopic/intprop
Includes a menu of source materials on U.S. copyright law.

University of California, Los Angeles, The UCLA Online Institute for Cyberspace Law and Policy
http://www.gseis.ucla.edu/iclp/hp.html
Includes a cyperspace law bibliography, as well as recent cases involving cyberspace law.

University of Washington School of Law, The Center for Advanced Studies and Research on Intellectual Property (CASRIP)
http://www.law.washington.edu/Casrip/
Includes information on the CASRIP program, as well as a newsletter issued three times a year that reports on CASRIP research and other intellectual-property-related activities and highlights intellectual property developments around the world.

OTHER

Intellectual Property Reference Library
http://www.servtech.com/~mbobb/ref_govt.htm
Contains links to intellectual-property-related sites of key U.S. government agencies, as well as to sites maintained in several other countries and regions of the world; includes a brief description of the information available on those sites.

James W. Piper & Co. Patent Information Service
http://www.piperpat.co.nz/resource/organs.html
Lists intellectual property organizations in various countries and parts of the world.

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