Intellectual Property Information

United States Copyright Law

• Title 17, U.S. Code
• Digital Millennium Copyright Act of 1998
• Higher Education Opportunity Act (HEOA) of 2008, EDUCAUSE
• "When Works Pass Into Public Domain" by Lolly Gasaway
• "Is It Covered by Copyright"
• Copyright Term & the Public Domain in the U.S., Cornell University
• U.S. Copyright Office
• Public Domain Slider, American Library Association

Tutorials & Guides

• U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright Basics
• U.S. Copyright Office. Reporduction of Copyrighted Works by Educators & Librarians
• Campus Copyright Rights & Responsibilities: A Basic Guide to Policy Considerations
• Agreement on Guidelines for Classroom Copying in Not-For-Profit Educational Institutions with Respect to Books & Periodicals (Published in House Report 94-1476)(statement of minimal fair use standards, part of the legislative history but not part of the law & considered by at least one authority to be overly stringent, out-of-date, and essentially obsolete when addressing amouts to be copied)
• UNC Fair Use Worksheet
• Fair Use Evaluator, American Library Association
• U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright Registration Procedures
• How Do I Know What Is and Isn't Legal, MPAA
• The Copyright Crash Course, University of Texas at Austin
• Best Practices in Fair Use, American University Center for Social Media
• Copyright and Fair Use, Stanford Univeristy Libraries
• Copyrights and Wrongs, American Association of University Professors
• Section 108 Spinner, American Library Associaton

Digital Media

• Digital Millennium Copyright Act of 1998
• Directory of Service Provider Agents for Notification of Claims of Infringement
• The Teach Act Tool Kit (NC State)
• Legal Sources of Online Content, EDUCAUSE
• Legal Onlne Movie & Television Sites, MPAA

Copyright Permissions

• Copyright Clearance Center (Principle resource for permissions for PRINTED materials)
• Getting Permission (U. of Texas site includes info on licensing videos for public performances)

Free or Low-Cost Permissions

The public domain has been aptly compared "to a vast national park without . . . a guide for the lost traveler, and without clearly defined roads or even boarders."(Krasilovsky, "Observations on the Public Domain," Bulletin, Copyright Society of the USA as quoted in Stephen Fishman's The Public Domain: How to Find & Use Copyright-Free Writings, Music, Art & More, 5th ed. (Nolo Pr., 2010))

Distance Education

• Copyright & Digital Distance Education, U.S. Copyright Office
• The TEACH Act
• The TEACH Act Toolkit, NC State
• Report on Copyright & Distance Education, U.S. Copyright Office
• Copyright, Distance Educaton, & Intellectual Property, AAUP
• Distance Education & the TEACH Act, American Library Association

Useful Sites

• Copyright, UNC Charlotte
• Know Your Copy Rigjts, Association of Research Libraries
• Copyright Advisory Network, American Library Association