Jeremy writes to oss4lib-discuss: "Here is a white paper that talks about copyright issues as relate to p2p tools (like Napster). Worth a read:" It's Peer-to-Peer File Sharing and Copyright Law after Napster [1], by Fred von Lohmann, published by the good folks at the Electronic Frontier Foundation [2].
Links:
[1] http://www.eff.org/IP/P2P/Napster/20010227_P2P_Copyright_White_Paper.html
[2] http://www.eff.org/