Relevant Links
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Teaching Virtue
in a Virtual World: Internet Ethics for Students. The authors, Frances
F. Jacobson and Greg D. Smith, share some incidents and experiences at
their high school in Illinois to educate students on intellectual property
rights, respecting privacy, using e-mail aliases and assuming other people's
identities to harass, etc. Most useful are the concrete steps and
programs to handle these prickly issues.
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Netiquette Home Page by
Virginia Shea, "Miss Manners of the Internet" and author of the classic
Netiquette
book first published in 1994. This website not only offers excerpts from
the book, but also the complete online edition on Business Netiquette,
Love and Sex in Cyberspace, and The Art of Flaming.
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The Net: User Guidelines
and Netiquette by Arlene Rinaldi has separate sections discussing e-mail
user responsibility, telnet protocol, FTP, newsgroups, and Web sites. The
Questions/Answers portion tackles more specific concerns like children
participating in group discussions, why electronic receipts are considered
rude, and punctuations or the difference between Web and e-mail communications.
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The Net Abuse
FAQs. Witty and irreverent, but nonetheless useful guide on how to
recognize and deal with net abuse. Traces the origin of the term spamm
and who's who in the Hall of Shame. This site is maintained by "net-cops"
Scott Southwick and J.D. Falk who explained "it's for abuse *of* the net,
NOT abuse *on* the net."
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Netparents.org is a broad-based
coalition of education groups, corporations, and non-profit organizations
"concerned with providing children with a safe and rewarding experience
online." Corporate sponsors include AOL, Disney, and MSN. Its site, America
Links Up, offers online safety tips for both parents and kids.
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Blocking
Software FAQ is a page that enumerates the flaws of the most popular
filtering software. This is in the website of Peacefire.org, a free speech
advocate that discovered many sites in the blacklist of these filters do
not contain pornographic or offensive content.
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About the Berne
Convention. One-page summary by the World Intellectual Property Organization
(WIPO) that cites all the 121 countries that signed the Berne Convention
for the Protection of Literary and Artistic Works in 1997. The three basic
principles of International Protection of Copyright and Neighboring Rights
are stated with footnotes.
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US Copyright Office FAQ
presents 60 of the most frequently asked questions and their answers in
the Copyright Office Public Information Section. Item number 1 is What
does copyright protect? You don't want to miss question number 58:
How
do I protect my sighting of Elvis?
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