Copyright & Fair Use Resources
Copyright History Copyright Laws & Legislation Copyright Registration & Renewal Databases General Copyright & Fair Use Distance Learning Electronic Library Reserves Multimedia Permission Public Domain Related Links
Copyright History
- The End of the Information Age
- History of Copyright Law (Wikipedia)
- Primary Sources on Copyright (1450 - 1099)
Copyright Laws & Legislation
- Copyright Law of the United States of America and Related Laws Contained in Title 17 of the U.S. Code
- Current Copyright Legislation
- Digital Millenium Copyright Act (Full text of the bill from THOMAS)
- Digital Millenium Copyright Act (Summary from the Library of Congress)
- Digital Millenium Copyright Act (Summary from UCLA Online Institute for Cyberspace Law and Policy)
- Meaning and Importance of the Teach Act
- PRO-IP Act of 2008 (Full text of the bill from THOMAS)
- Federal Register Notices (Copyright announcements and rules from the U.S. Copyright Office)
Copyright Registration & Renewal Databases
- United States Copyright Office -- Search Copyright Information
- Copyright Renewal Database (Stanford University, covers copyright renewals for books published between 1923 and 1963)
General Copyright & Fair Use
- 10 Big Myths About Copyright Explained
- AAP Campus Copyright Education Program
- CONFU: The Conference on Fair Use
- Copyright and Fair Use (Stanford University Libraries)
- Copyright Management Center (Indiana University)
- The Copyright Website
- Crash Course in Copyright
- Creative Commons
- Fair use Guidelines (LSCC chart)
- Fair Use of Copyrighted Works
- Is It Protected By Copyright? (Flash based tool to determine public domain resources)
- Know Your Copy Rights (Tips for faculty in higher education)
- Questions & Answers on Copyright for the Campus Community (Assn. of American Publishers)
- Timeline: A History of Copyright in the U.S.
- United States Copyright Office
Distance Learning
- Common Scenarios of Fair Use Issues: Posting Materials on Course Management Systems
- Distance Learning and Copyright: Is a Solution in Sight? (article from EDUCAUSE)
- Proposal for Educational Fair Use Guidelines for Digital Images
- Proposal for Educational Fair Use Guidelines for Distance Learning
- Report on Copyright and Digital Distance Education
- Statement of the Register of Copyrights before the Web-Based Education Commission, U.S. Senate, July 20, 2000
- The Teach Toolkit
Electronic Library Reserves
Multimedia
- Fair Use and Multimedia Web Sites (Stanford University Libraries)
- Fair Use Guidelines for Educational Multimedia (Ball State University)
- Intellectual Property Law Primer for Multimedia and Web Developers
Permission
Public Domain
Related Links
- Patents and Trademarks (U.S. Patent & Trademark Office)
- Copyright Internet Resources (U.S. Copyright Office)