Wikipedia:WikiProject Intellectual Property law 2010 Berkeley

Note: This page is now here for archival purposes only. The current Intellectual Property law WikiProject is at WikiProject Intellectual Property law.

Introduction
Students in the University of California Berkeley's Fall 2010 Intellectual Property Law for the Information Industries course seek to improve Wikipedia pages related to Intellectual Property law topics. (It's also an assignment.) This effort is also now part of the Wikimedia Foundation's pilot project on United States Public Policy.

Students have identified the following pages that they may work on:

"Hot News" Misappropriation
Here is a list of more copyright topics on Wikipedia.

Some Wiki Resources From Your Fellow Classmates

 * I found the following page to be a good starting point for figuring out wikipedia law articles: WikiProject Law
 * I also found this page where featured (highest quality) law articles are listed: Featured Article
 * Something else that I am using is changedetection.com, which lets you watch web pages so that you know when they change.
 * A good way to monitor Wikipedia articles for changes is `starring' an article. Any changes to the article will then appear in your watchlist.
 * You can get a more full-featured editor by installing a Greasemonkey script called wikEd.
 * Every user has a sandbox where they can play with things (like draft versions of their page). It's here.

Other resources
Here is a list of helpful, experienced Wikipedia editors who can answer questions about the wiki software and formatting in general, how to insert citations and media, advice on how to form a WP:Consensus with other editors on Wikipedia, or any general and/or technical advice on how to use Wikipedia.

Content Guidelines
General Overview
 * Five pillars
 * List of guidelines
 * Manual of Style (legal)
 * If you are summarizing a case, the outline used by the Wikiproject on Supreme Court cases is a good overall structure to start from for summarizing any case, whether it was decided by the Supreme Court or not.

Wikipedia's Three Core Content Policies:
 * Neutral point of view
 * Verifiability
 * No original research

Previous Law WikiProjects:

 * WikiProject Intellectual Property law 2009 Berkeley
 * WikiProject Cyberlaw 2010 Berkeley
 * WikiProject Cyberlaw 2009 Berkeley
 * Wikiproject Cyberlaw 2006 Harvard