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Copyright Resources

"They believed that things went not by luck, but by law; that there was not a weak or a cracked link in the chain that joins the first and last of things."
         
Ralph Waldo Emerson, "Power" (1860)

General Web Guides
Copyright Basics (US Copyright Office, Circular 1)
University of Indiana Copyright Management Center
University of Texas Crash Course in Copyright
American Library Association: Copyright

The Law

US Copyright Office
A complete version of the US Copyright law, US Code Title 17:   http://www.copyright.gov/title17/index.html
Law About Copyright (Cornell Law School)
Institute for Computer Law and Policy (Edcause & Cornell)
United States Copyright Office, A Brief History and Overview (US Copyright Office Circular 1a)
When Works Pass Into the Public Domain (U. of North Carolina - Length of Copyright)
Timeline: A History of Copyright in the United States (ARL)
Opposing Copyright Extension (Dennis Karjala, Arizona State) see also The Eldred Act

Court Cases

ALA Court Cases Site
Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) (perform a search on "copyright" at this site to find relevant articles)
The Copyright WebSite (lots of great examples and court cases)
Selected Copyright Decisions of the US Supreme Court (Cornell)
Important Copyright Decisions (BitLaw)

Fair Use

Stanford University: Copyright & Fair Use
Fair Use in Education
Fair Use of Copyrighted Materials (U. of Texas)
Fair Use Guidelines for Educational Multimedia (U. of Texas)
Regents Guide to Understanding Copyright & Educational Fair Use (U. of Georgia)
UC Permissible Photocopying of Copyrighted Works under Fair Use

Classroom Use

Using copyrighted Works in the Classroom (K. Matthew Dames)
Copyright Law: New to Using Technology in the Classroom (Intel)

Library Use

Library Law
ACRL Statement on fair use and electronic reserves

The TEACH Act (2002)

The TEACH Act (UI Copyright Management Center)
TEACH Act Toolkit (NCSU)
The TEACH Act and some Frequently Asked Questions (Crews)
The TEACH Act (Copyright Clearance Center - a simple summary) [PDF]
University of Georgia Office of Legal Affairs Guide to the TEACH Act

The Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) (1998)

Digital Millennium Copyright Act (American Library Assoc.)
Digital Millennium Copyright Act (Social Law Library)

Asking Permission

Getting Permission (U. of Texas)
Obtaining Permission from the Copyright Owner (UC)

Guidelines & Samples

10 Big Myths About Copyright
Educator's Guide to Intellectual Property, Copyright and Plagiarism (see especially the "Implications for Educators Fair Use Guidelines)
Carroll Community College Copyright Policy (see the fair use guidelines)
General Rule of Copyright (The Cornell Store)
The Agreement on Guidelines for Classsroom Copying," etc. published in House Report 94-1476 (from Cornell)
Similar guidelines from the University of California

Intellectual Property

Intellectual Property Policy Guidelines (U. of Texas)
Intellectual Property and Technology (Boston College Law School)

Books (links are to Amazon)

Crews, Kenneth D. Copyright Essentials for Librarians and Educators, American Library Association, Chicago and London, 2000.

Crews, Kenneth D. Copyright, Fair Use, and the Challenge for Universities: Promoting the Progress of Higher Education, The University of Chicago Press, Chicago and London, 1993.

Journal Articles

Dames, K. Mathew.  "The copyright landscape." (PURL)
Pike, George H. "Google Print and the Fair Use Doctrine." (PURL)
Pike, George H. "Academics Test Copyright Law." (PURL)
Dahl, Judy. "Understanding the TEACH Act." [PDF] (PURL)
Van Horn, Royal.  "The Digital Millennium Coyright Act and Other Egregious Laws." (PURL)
Amen, Kathleen.  "Digital Copyright." (PURL)

MetaSites (Guides to other copyright sites)

Copyright Resources Online (Yale)

Tutorials

 

 
 

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