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Copyright Resources
Copyright Code
United States Copyright Office
United States Copyright Office
How to Investigate the Copyright Status of a Work
Reproductions of Copyrighted Works by Educators and Librarians Circular 21
Association Positions
Copyright (American Library Association)
Medical Library Association Copyright Management Guidelines
Introduction to Copyright Resources - SPARC (Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition)
Author Rights
SPARC Author Addendum (May 2007 version) pdf html (To secure your rights as authors of journal articles)
Author Rights Webcast
Sponsored by ACRL and ARL, through the Institute on Scholarly Communication, along with SPARC. Recorded June 18, 2007. Designed to help librarians better engage disciplinary faculty and researchers on the topic of author rights.
Requires a free LearningTimes account to access recording.
Resources
Copyright Crash Course University of Texas, Georgia Harper
Bloggers Beware: Debunking Nine Copyright Myths of the Online World
Campus Guide to Copyright Compliance
CONFU: The Conference on Fair Use
CONTU Guidelines (National Commission on New Technological Uses of Copyright Works)
Copyright Advisory Network (ALA)
Copyright Basics: The TEACH Act
(Technology, Education, and Copyright Harmonization (TEACH) Act)
Copyright and Fair Use: What Clinicians and Educators Need to Know (Dartmouth Biomedical Libraries)
Copyright and Fair Use and Copyright (University at Buffalo Libraries)
Copyright, Fair Use, and Educational Multimedia FAQ: A Blackboard Tip Sheet
Copyright in Teaching (Scholarly Communications @ Duke)
Copyright Information and Resources (Library and Technology Services, Brandeis University)
The Copyright Law and the Health Sciences Librarian (Restricted access to members of the Medical Library Association)
Copyright Renewal Database
Use to discover information on orphan works
Copyright Term and the Public Domain in the United States: 1 January 2007
Copyright and You (Copyright Alliance)
Cornell University's Copyright Information Center
Cost of Copyright Confusion for Media Literacy 2007 (Center for Social Media at American University School of Communication)
Fair Use Checklist (Indiana University Copyright Management Center)
Society for Cinema and Media Studies? Best Practices for Fair Use in Teaching
Using Course Management Systems: Guidelines for Best Practices for Copyright Compliance NEW! 2008 from the Copyright Clearance Center
When It?s OK to Copy (Inside Higher Ed. Nov 16, 2007)
Visual or Interactive or Podcast or...
A (Fair(y) Use Tale
10 minute mashup on YouTube that looks at copyright and fair use using Disney characters.
Audio: Tech Therapy, Episode 12 - Chronicle.com
William Shell, Director of Academic Technology & Computing Services, Eastern Michigan University
Bound by Law Copyright Comic Book
Center for Study of the Public Domain
Interactive Guide to Using Copyrighted Media in Your Courses
A free interactive guide put out by Baruch College/CUNY to help faculty determine the appropriate copyright guidelines to follow when using different types of copyright protected media in educational courses.
SUNY
Online Courses
Reports, Guides, Publications, Blogs
AAAS - Science & Intellectual Property in the Public Interest
A Report by the Project on Science and Intellectual Property in the Public Interest
AAUP Campus Copyright: Rights and Responsibilities 2005
CopyCense
Online publication that reports on the law, business, and technology of digital content, and the code that creates and governs that content. (Executive Editor, K. Matthew Dames)
Library Preservation & Section 108
Section 108 Study Group
Independent, select committee of copyright experts. Charged with updating for the digital world the Copyright Act’s balance between the rights of creators and copyright owners and the needs of libraries and archives.
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