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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
bullet Copyright Basics (US Copyright Office, Circular 1) [PDF]
bullet University of Texas Crash Course in Copyright
bullet American Library Association: Copyright

The Law

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

Court Cases

bullet ALA Court Cases Site
bullet Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) (perform a search on "copyright" at this site to find relevant articles)
bullet Selected Copyright Decisions of the US Supreme Court (Cornell)
bullet Important Copyright Decisions (BitLaw)

Fair Use

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

Classroom Use

bullet Copyright Law: New to Using Technology in the Classroom (Intel)

Library Use

bullet Library Law
bullet Fair use and electronic reserves  (ALA)

The TEACH Act (2002)

bullet Distance Education and the TEACH Act (ALA)
bullet TEACH Act Toolkit (NCSU)
bullet The TEACH Act and some Frequently Asked Questions (ALA)
bullet The TEACH Act (Copyright Clearance Center - a simple summary) [PDF]

The Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) (1998)

bullet Digital Millennium Copyright Act (American Library Assoc.)

Asking Permission

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

Guidelines & Samples

bullet 10 Big Myths About Copyright
bullet Educator's Guide to Intellectual Property, Copyright and Plagiarism (see especially the "Implications for Educators Fair Use Guidelines)
bullet Carroll Community College Copyright Policy (see the fair use guidelines)
bullet General Rule of Copyright (The Cornell Store)
bullet Similar guidelines from the University of California

Intellectual Property

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

Books (links are to Amazon)

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

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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

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

MetaSites (Guides to other copyright sites)

bullet Copyright Resources Online (Yale)

Tutorials

 

 
 

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