Regulations, Agencies, and Non-Governmental Web Sites

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Regulations

Regulations are available from a myriad of print and electronic resources. As noted elsewhere in this guide, Lexis and Westlaw have extensive coverage of regulations with specialized databases in their IP and technology law sections.

Federal and state agency web pages are also increasingly important and cost effective ways of doing regulatory research. The starting point for federal regulatory research is the Government Printing Office (GPO).

The Boalt Law Library maintains a guide to federal and state Online Sources of Administrative Law.

Agency Websites

It is important to refer to the web sites for the various agencies that deal with law and technology issues. Agencies typically post proposed and final regulations, guidance documents and statements, legislation, manuals, international treaties, and news releases. They also will have online directories of employees, offices, phone numbers, and e-mail addresses. The currency and extent of the information will differ from agency to agency.

• LSU Libraries Federal Agencies Directory
• The Federal Web Locator
• Administrative Decisions by Subject
  A list of agency web sites with agency decisions, arranged by subject.

Federal Agencies

• U.S. Copyright Office
• U.S. Patent and Trademark Office

Non-Governmental Web Sites

• Chilling Effects Clearinghouse
  Boalt Hall's Samuelson Law, Technology, & Public Policy Clinic is one of the organizations that developed and maintains the Chilling Effects project, which focuses on First Amendment and IP issues in the online context.
• The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF)
  EFF is an NGO group of lawyers working on digital rights issues in an array of IP and technological areas, including copyright, DRM, the broadcast flag, and reverse engineering.

Kathleen Vanden Heuvel, kvandenh@law.berkeley.edu , Room 216 Boalt Hall
Michael Levy, mlevy@law.berkeley.edu , Room 217 Boalt Hall