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CSULB's Copyright and Fair Use Policy
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.
Copyright Management Center (Indiana University/Purdue). Provides access to a wide variety of resources about copyright in general and its importance to higher education, including a variety of other pages dealing with the subject of copyright.
Sources: their Use and Acknowledgement. Provides a good explanation of why, when and how to cite sources.
UCLA Copyright Policy. Provides links to many of the sources listed here and provides their and the University of California policies on copyright.
Copyright Term and Public Domain is a chart that helps determine the copyright status of a given work in the United States.
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.
Copyright Office Records. This site by the copyright office allows you to search for the copyright status on books, music, serials, and other formats, by author, title or claimant.
Copyright Renewal Database by Stanford University. A searchable database of copyright renewed records for U.s. books published between 1923 and 1963 (those that might fall into public domain if copyright is not renewed).
Legal Information Institute Law about Copyright. Provides legal definitions, laws, cases, international treaties and other web links on copyright law.
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.
When Works Pass into the Public Domain. Includes material from new Term Extension Act, PL 105-298.
Copyright by the American Library Association provides links to the major copyright laws, both federal and state.
Copyright Primer (University of Maryland). This is a tutorial on understanding copyright. University of Maryland also maintains the Center for Information Policy that provides research, reports, news and other information related to privacy, intellectual property and information security.
Crash Course in Copyright (University of Texas). Approaches the subject with irreverence and elan. Focuses on multimedia, digital libraries, licensing of electronic resources, and the needs of particular audiences (students, staff, librarians, artists, administrators).
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.
CSULB's Copyright and Fair Use Policy California State University, Long Beach
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
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.
Yahoo: Government:Law:Intellectual Property:Copyrights. Collection of sites concerning copyright law, cases and copyright materials from other countries.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.
Google Patents. A collection of patents that sometimes have copyright attached.
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).
Engineering Research Guide from CSULB has a section on Searching Patents and Standards & Codes.
Patent and Trademark Subject Guide by Louisiana State University provides good information on finding patents and intellectual property rights.
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."
Public Domain Image Sources from Wikipeida. Provides the history and links to sources of materials in the public domain.
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