Here's a quick list of websites concerned with intellectual property to further your thoughts on it. Have fun!
- Laurie
Intellectual Property Law Webscape: The Spinoza Project
World Intellectual Property Organization
"The Cathedral and the Bazaar" by Eric Raymond
"Who Will Own Your Next Good Idea?" by Charles Mann
Fair Use on the Internet at Harvard's Berkman Center for Internet and Society
The Software Freedom Law Center
FindLaw: Legal Subjects: Intellectual Property
Economic and Legal Projects in the Stanford Digital Library
Community of Science - Patents
Digital Consumer's Consumer Technology Bill of Rights
Copyright Alternatives
Project Xanadu's Transcopyright (Transclusion)
The GNU Project's GNU Free Documentation License or Copyleft
Wikipedia's "Free Content" page