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Government & Law


Copyright

Copyright and Intellectual Property
Laws and relevant material pertaining to copyright.

Digital Millenium Act
Highlights important points of act.

Digital Millennium Copyright Act Status and Analysis
Covers not only the history but current status of the DMCA 1998 legislative act.  Includes sections on analysis, first sale and fair use doctrine, rulemaking, and compliance.  From the Association of Research Libraries.

U.S. Copyright Office
Includes Copyright, Intellectual Property Rights, and Licensing Issues.

Federal (U.S.) Government

FirstGov
Searches 20,000 government sites in a single action and includes a list of topics that categorizes the agencies.  

GPO Access 
Access to information relating to the U.S. government including links to legislative, executive, and judicial sites, government decisions, historical documents, code of federal regulations, the Federal Register, Congressional Record, and the U.S. Code.

Homeland Security
Center for Democracy & Technology page of links.

Index of Congressional Research Service Reports
These valuable reports produced by the Congressional Research Service are now available on a congressman Mark Green's website.  These reports cover issues and concerns of the day both domestic and international.

Meta Subject Index to Government Information
A collaborative effort by academic libraries and government agency libraries with a direct link to the corresponding web page.

Thomas 
The congressional web site that includes new and pending federal legislation.

USA.gov: the US Government's Official Web Portal
The new name and URL for the site formerly known as FirstGov. For the time being, the old URL will still get you here, but you should probably change your links.

U.S. National Debt Clock
Information about the federal budget with  valuable FAQs that answer questions quickly and simply.

General Law

Cornell Law School Legal Information Institute: Wex
"Wex is an ambitious effort to construct a collaboratively-created, public-access law dictionary and encyclopedia. It is sponsored and hosted by the Legal Information Institute [LII] at the Cornell Law School."

Famous Trials
Presents 33 famous trials arranged chronological from Socrates to O.J. Simpson.  Each trial includes individual segments like key personalities, map, chronology, images, and biographies.

Local & State Government

National Conference of State Legislatures
Internet sites of all the state legislatures.

National Center for State Courts
The NCSC provides links to all available state court documents. As you might expect some states have more to offer than others, but with time more will come. Along with state courts this site also gives links to Federal Court sites, International Court sites, and other courts found on the internet.

State and Local Government on the Net 
Guide to state and local government web pages including statewide offices, agencies in the legislative, judicial, and executive branches plus boards and commissions.

Mississippi

Census 2000 / Mississippi
The State Data Center of Mississippi page maintained by the University of Mississippi.

Mississippi Bar Association
State association with relevant links.

Mississippi Code
Electronic version of the Mississippi Code provided by Lexis-Nexis.

Mississippi Legislature
Includes directory of state senators and legislators, legislative calendar, and related Mississippi websites.

State Agency List
Links to all Mississippi agencies plus regulations.