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Copyright (William & Mary College). Provides links to many sites that are give background on copyright and its application to the academic community.
Copyright and Fair Use (Stanford University Libraries). Provides nicely organized, searchable primary materials, current legislation and cases, links to other sites, and an overview of copyright law.
Know your Copy Rights: using copyright works in academic settings by Association of Research Libraries. This site is on using the works of others for teaching and learning.
Myths about Copyright by Brad Templeton. This simplifies things to what is acceptable and what is not in copyright. Note Mr. Templeton is not a lawyer and clearly says that on the web site.
Copyright by the American Library Association provides links to the major copyright laws, both federal and state.
Copyright Advisory Network by the American Library Association, Office of Information Technology Policy. This online newsletter provides a place to find out what to do when copyright problems occur. Plenty of resource links to help one keep current, articles and blogs that discuss the copyright issues.
"What do you know about Copyright?" survey by 'Brary Web Diva has 20 q & a's with answers of situations concerning copyright.
United States Copyright Office. Provides official information on copyright, including new legislation, copyright basics, how to register a copyright, copyright application forms, etc. The Copyright Office Basics page is very helpful.
Copyright by the American Library Association provides links to the major copyright laws, both federal and state.
Courses to understanding Copyright:
Use of Copyrighted Works by Faculty and Staff by Columbia University. Good guide for print materias in understanding what is public domain, fair use and how to get rights for use in the classroom.
Academic Fair Use Policy Examples:
CSUEB Intellectual Property Policy from California State University, East Bay
CSUF Copyright Policy for the College of Education from California State University, Fullerton
San Francisco State University Information Technology Resources Acceptable Use Policy
Information on Intellectual Property:
Declaration on the Future of World Intellectual Property. This internationally lead initative is for intellectual property rights on a world-wide scale.
Intellectual Property and Technology Forum. This legal publication by Boston College Law School provides articles and resources on technology law and intellectual property.
One-Page list of Intellectual Property Resources by European patent lawyer Ralph Beier. Arranged by categories includes intellectual property offices, courts, and case law databases. Note: Europeon oriented.
Publisher Copyright Transfer Agreements:
SHERPA/RoMEO is a database from the United Kingdom providing publisher information on their copyright statements. This database also gives information on each publishers policy on the author's ability to post open access preprints or postprints of their own papers.
United States Patent and Trademark Office Trademark Dispute Documents Online from January 2003 to present contains trademark trial and appeal board documents. You will need to search by proceeding number available at USPTO Trademark Trial and Appeal Board Information System Index (more searching options here).
Finding Patents by University of California, San Diego Library provides the steps in locating patents. This helps you find U.S., International and chemical patents.
Educational Use of Media by University of Pennsylvania. This site provides information on the Digital Millennium Copyright Act of 1998 (DMCA) and 2006 exemptions.
A Fair(y) Use Tale by Bucknell Professor Eric Faden. A "video cuts together thousands of extremely short clips from dozens of Disney cartoons, lifting individual words and short phrases to spell out an articulate, funny, and thoroughly educational lesson on how copyright works."
Society for Cinema & Media Studies Statement on Fair Use by Society of Cinema and Media Studies. Site is geared for educational fair use of media. There are links ot the Educational Use of Media above and fair use of movie stills. The site includes best practices examples.
Public Domain Image Sources from Wikipeida. Provides the history and links to sources of materials in the public domain.
