Selected Copyright Resources
The Law
- U.S. Code (Cornell)
- U.S. Copyright Law (Copyright Office)
- Library Digitazation Projects & Copyright
- U.S. Copyright Office
Guidelines
- Guidelines on Photocopying under Interlibrary Loan Arrangements (CONTU)
- Copyright Management Center (Indiana University)
- Copyright Information Center (Cornell)
- Copyright Information & Education: Fair Use (U Minnesota)
- Copyright Website (Benedict.com)
Welcome to the Copyright Website, the ultimate copyright portal. Endeavoring to provide real world, practical copyright information for over a decade. - Library Digitization Projects and Copyright
By Mary Minow, Published on June 28, 2002 - MLA: Copyright for Music Librarians
- Stanford University Libraries: Copyright and Fair Use
- University of Texas Copyright Crash Course
- Rhodes College Intellectual Property Statement
- Electronic Reserves (Copyright Clearance Center)
- Copyright for Music Librarians (Music Library Association)
- Consortium on College and University Media Centers - Copyright
- Podcasting Legal Guide (Creative Commons)
- U.S. Copyright Office: Orphan Works
The Copyright Office has completed its study of problems related to “orphan works”—copyrighted works whose owners may be impossible to identify and locate.
Permissions
- Association of American Publishers
- Copyright Clearance Center (CCC)
- Copyright Renewal Database
Welcome to the initial release of Stanford′s Copyright Renewal Database. This database makes searchable the copyright renewal records received by the US Copyright Office between 1950 and 1992 for books published in the US between 1923 and 1963. Note that the database includes ONLY US Class A (book) renewals. - Creative Commons
Creative Commons is working to revive them. We use private rights to create public goods: creative works set free for certain uses. Like the free software and open-source movements, our ends are cooperative and community-minded, but our means are voluntary and libertarian. We work to offer creators a best-of-both-worlds way to protect their works while encouraging certain uses of them — to declare “some rights reserved.” - Liblicense (Yale)
We hope that these materials will serve as a useful starting point towards providing librarians with a better understanding of the issues raised by licensing agreements in the digital age.
Select Bibliography
- Deazley, Ronan. Rethinking Copyright: History, Theory, Language. 2006
- Crews, Kenneth D. Copyright Law for Librarians and Educators: Creative Strategies and Practical Solutions. 2006.
- Hoffmann, Gretchen. Copyright in Cyberspace 2: Questions and Answers for Librarians. [Print REF: KF3030.1.Z9 H644 2005]
- Center for Intellectual Property. Colleges, Code and Copyright: the Impact of Digital Networks and Technological Controls on Copyright and the Dissemination of Information in Higher Education. [Print: KF2994.A2 C65 2005]
- Warda, Mark. How to Register Your Own Copyright.
- Fishman, Stephen. The Public Domain: How to Find and Use Copyright-free Writings, Music, Art & More. [Print REF: KF3022.Z9 F57 2006]
- Wherry, Timothy L. The Librarian′s Guide to Intellectual Property in the Digital Age: Copyrights, Patents, and Trademarks .
