Copyright / Fair Use Policy
Columbia University Copyright Advisory Office
http://copyright.columbia.edu/copyright/
Copyright Research Guide (Texas A & M University Libraries)
http://guides.library.tamu.edu/content.php?pid=193253&sid=1620429
Copyright and Academia
“The established educational guidelines, as well as other regulations and rules regarding libraries are available in Copyright Office Circular 21, "Reproduction of Copyrighted Works by Educators and Librarians, " which can be downloaded at http://www.copyright.gov/circs/
Copyright and Art Issues
As part of the CONFU (Conference on Fair Use ) initiative, the discussion of copyright and art (images, photos, letters, works of art and others, Christine L. Sundt has compiled a site for links to all the pertinent web pages on this issue. http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/~csundt/copyweb/#Useful
Copyright and Fair Use Policy
Stanford University 's comprehensive site on the meaning of intellectual property in all forms of materials.
http://fairuse.stanford.edu/
Copyright Clearance Center
Place for academics to get copyright permissions for any materials they believe will warrant such permissions. This includes course reserves and electronic reserves. BlackBoard systems does this internally.
http://www.copyright.com/ccc/viewPage.do?pageCode=ac1-n
Crash Course on Copyright Issues (University of Texas)
Attempts to give faculty and students clearer focus on the issue of intellectual property.
http://copyright.lib.utexas.edu/
Four Fair Use Factors
There are four factors that determine whether the materials used and copied are eligible for exception to copyright regulation under the fair use section of the law. All four factors must be present for an action to be considered fair use. Here is University Of California Community explanation of the FFF.
http://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/copyright/fairuse.html
Legal Information Institute of Cornell
Provides all legal documents as they pertain to issues of copyright.
http://ez.centenary.edu:2048/login?url=http://www4.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/
Libraries and Copyright
As part of the Stanford Copyright and Fair Use web site, there is a section devoted specifically to library participation in Fair Use rules.
http://fairuse.stanford.edu/Copyright_and_Fair_Use_Overview/chapter7/7-d.html
Title 17 of the U.S. Code
Cornell University Law School Legal Information Institute has published a page on that section of the U.S. Code that deals with copyright laws.
http://www.copyright.gov/title17
U.S. Copyright Law and the Fair Use Doctrine: Best Practices Online
Taped webinar (May 22, 2012)
http://tinyurl.com/6qa9pbv
U.S. Copyright Office
http://www.copyright.gov/