Internet Resources
This list includes interactive tutorials, answers to frequently
asked questions, the copyright law and
TEACH Act, and other useful links.
College
of DuPage Copyright Information
provides guidelines for using copyrighted material. Includes faqs,
links to the copyright law, fair use the TEACH Act, public domain
and other resources.
Copyright
Clearance Center offers information for the academic community
concerning copyright issues and the compliance process. Useful
links include a guide to copyright compliance, best practices
for using course management systems and electronic reserves, a
glossary and tips to understanding the TEACH Act.
Copyright
and Fair Use Guidelines for Teachers a chart providing
some rough guidelines on what might be acceptable in terms of
fair use copying. Key to remember is that these are only guidelines
about what might be acceptable. The only real test for violations
of fair use are the four factors as outlined in Sect. 107, Title
17 of the United States Code.
Copyright
Information for Educators provides links to key copyright
sites for the academic community. The link categories include
"Copyright Basics," "Copyright in Academia,"
"Draft Guidelines Proposed by the Conference on Fair Use
(CONFU)," "Obtaining Permission," and "Internet/Web
Issues."
Copyright Information
Center at Cornell University provides links to information
about copyright and copyright law from an academic perspective.
Includes information on training programs, faqs on copyright,
hot topics, scholarly communication, and copyright management
for authors.
Crash
Course in Copyright is an interactive tutorial that teaches
about all aspects of copyright. It is maintained by the legal
counsel at the University of Texas at Austin.
Fair
Use Guidelines for Educational Multimedia prepared by
the Educational Multimedia Fair Use Guidelines Development Committee,
this site provides a complete version of the guidelines as well
as other doucments related to the work.
Intellectual
Property, Copyright, and Fair Use Resources from the University
of Albany Libraries. This guide provides access to a wealth of
links and other resources dealing with the aspects of copyright.
Stanford's
Copyright Renewal Database from Stanford University.
A searchable database of copyright renewal records received by
the Copyright Office between 1950 and 1993 for books published
in the US between 1923 and 1963.
TEACH Act - Amended Section 110(2) [2002] produced by University of North Carolina -Chapel Hill, professor and copyright specialist, Dr. Laura Gasaway. This chart, created on November 25, 2002, provides a comparison of the old Section 110 (1)-(2) Classroom Exemptions and the Section 110 (2) TEACH Act.
US Copyright Office
provides information about copyright and copyright law. It has
links to the Office's publications such as factsheets
and circulars.
When
U.S. Works Pass Into the Public Domain [2003] produced
by University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill, professor and copyright
specialist, Dr. Laura Gasaway and Professor Tom Field, Franklin
Pierce Law Center. The chart notes that in 2003 copyrighted works
that fell into the public domain included anything published before
1923. The chart also indicates length of protection for works
under older interpretations of U.S. Copyright Law.
Books and Audiovisuals
Reference
Books
West's Encyclopedia of American Law.
2004
Call Number: R 349.7303 W529e 2004
Location: Brenham, Bryan, and Schulenburg Reference
Encyclopedia of Education. 2003
Call Number R 370.3 En19o 2003
Location: Brenham and Bryan Reference
Note: V. 4, p. 1186-1190 has an entry on intellectual property
rights
Selective List of Books and Audiovisuals
in the Library
Search the Library
Catalog by the subject "copyright" to identify
material owned by the library on the topic of copyright. You also
may browse the stacks by call number 346.730482 to locate relevant
books.
Copyright for teachers and librarians..
Butler, Rebecca P. New
York : Neal-Schuman
Publishers, 2004
Call Number: 346.730482 B978c
Location: Brenham and Bryan
Copyright's highway : from Gutenberg
to the celestial jukebox / Paul Goldstein.
Stanford
, Calif. :
Stanford University Press, c2003.
Call Number: 346.7304 G578c 2003
Location: Brenham and Bryan
The future of ideas : the fate of the
commons in a connected world.
Lessig, Lawrence.
New York : Random House, c2001.
Call Number: 346.0480285 L566f
Location: Bryan
Copyrights and copywrongs : the rise of intellectual property and how it threatens
creativity.
Vaidhyanathan, Siva. New
York : New York University
Press, c2001.
Call Number: 346.730482 V191c
Location: Brenham and Bryan
Copyright Primer for Librarians and Educators. Brunwelheide,
Janis H. 2nd. Ed.
Rev ed. of: The Copyright Primer for Librarians
and Educators, Mary Hutchings
Reed. 1987. "In cooperation
with the Educational Resources Information Center."
Chicago:
American Library Association & Washington, DC: National Education
Association.
c1995.
Call Number: 025.12 B839c 1995
Location: Brenham and Bryan
Digital copyright : protecting intellectual
property on the Internet
Jessica Litman.
Amherst
,
N.Y.
: Prometheus Books, 2001.
Call Number: 346.730482 L714d
Location: Brenham and Bryan
The illustrated story of copyright.
Samuels, Edward B.
New York
:
St. Martin
's Press,
2000.
Call Number: 346.730482 Sa49i
Location: Brenham and Bryan
Libraries, copyright, and the Internet [videorecording]
/ presented by Starlink.
Imprint: [
Dallas
,
Tex.
] : Starlink, 1999.
Description: 1 videocassette ; 1/2 in +
Call Number: VT 025.12 L616c
Location: Brenham
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