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The links below are provided for information only. They are not to be construed as an endorsement by FHSU. For advice on copyright or intellectual proeprty, please consult a lawyer.

Commercial Resources | Duration | Fair Use | General Information |
Government Offices | Intellectual Property | Laws | Legal Information | News and Advocacy | Permission | Plagiarism | Tutorials

Commercial Resources

Copyright Clearance Center (Gets permissions for articles, locates copyright owners, service to help pay royalties on article use)

Instant Copyright Clearance is another such source.

Contact Rightsline for getting permissions for use of film resources

GigaLaw.com has articles and a list service used by intellectual property lawyers.

LibraryLaw.com is a treasure trove of links to information about copyright issues as they affect libraries.

Picture Archive Council of America (PACA) a North American trade association representing the interests of the image licensing industry, has prepared a power point presentation that it will make available to the public that educates users of images as well as visual artists on the basics of copyright.

Duration

Bromberg& Sunstein, LLPs, offer a Copyright Duration Chart and much more.

Catholic University of America's summary of The Sonny Bono Extension Act of 1998: search the FEDLAW link for Sonny Bono under "S." There is also a summary of the DMCA under "D."

Laura Gasaway, " When Works Pass Into the Public Domain"

Cornell's set of charts on the public domain

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Fair Use

Chilling Effects has updates on the law that are in lay terms

Davidson, Hall. "Fair Use for Educators." Technology and Learning. 15 October, 2002. Includes a handy fair use guidelines chart at end of document

Fair Use in Copyright

Works Unprotected by Copyright Law

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General Information

CAA News Q&A about permission

"Copyright," Office of Vice provost, University of Kansas.

Copyright Education Web Site The University of California System Copyright site.

"Copyright, Intellectual Property Rights, and Licensing Issues," UC Berkeley; includes conferences, papers and much more.

"Copyright Law," The University of Michigan.

"Copyright Information for Faculty, Staff and Students," Washburn University, which has a law school in Topeka, Kansas:

Copyright Management Center: Kenneth Crews, who oversees this site, is a Professor of Law at Indiana University School of Law-Indianapolis

"Copyright Resources Online," Yale's huge list of university links on copyright.

Copyown: who owns scholarly work?

Duke University

Edmund Stanley Library Copyright Guidelines Friends University

Harper,Georgia. "Crash Course in Copyright." University of Texas Systems.

How to Investigate the Copyright Status of a Work

Intellectual Property Information Center Kansas State University.

OCLC Digitization and Online Resource Center (Visit the Copyright Online Resource Kit link).

O'Keefe Library Best links page

Picture Archive Council of America (PACA) a North American trade association representing the interests of the image licensing industry, has prepared a power point presentation that it will make available to the public that educates users of images as well as visual artists on the basics of copyright.

Purdue's quickguide

Stanford University Swain Chemistry & Engineering Library Well-organized list of sites is arranged by resource type. A premier finding aid.

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Government Offices

U.S. Copyright Office

Senate Judiciary Committee on Copyright

Department of Commerce Contact for International Trade questions

Contact national officials:
U.S. President
Jerry Moran - U.S. House of Representatives
Sam Brownback - U.S. Senator
Pat Roberts - U.S. Senator

Intellectual Property

University of Kansas on Alternative Publishing

Laws

Digital Millennium Copyright Act of 1998

Sonny Bono Extension Act of 1998

Distance Education and the TEACH Act of 2002

Title 17 (The US Copyright Act of 1976)

Thomas Register (to track bills)

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Legal Information

Catholic University of America "Summary of Federal Laws," Office of the General Counsel, explains copyright and other laws affecting universities.

Furdlog at MIT has a large list of links to legal resources.

GigaLaw.com includes articles by lawyers and a set of forums involving lawyers and other interested parties

Legal Information Institute Cornell University

Texas Tech University Policies Pages

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News and Advocacy

Technology & Learning

Public Knowledge

Techdirt

Tech News: CNet.com

Wired News

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Permission

Music Library Association: useful information about copyright issues in music

UT System Permissions page: Links to tracking publishers in music, films, foreign works, much more

Plagiarism

North Carolina State University Libraries

"Avoiding Plagiarism @ Oregon State University"

"Best Information on the Net" on Plagiarism: O'Keefe Library, St. Ambrose University

Preventing and Detecting Plagiarism Staley Library, Milliken University, Decatur, IL.

Technology & Learning Search "Intellectual Property"

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Tutorials

ALA Copyright Tutorial

Take a Texas-sized "Crash Course in Copyright"

Copyright Clearance Center Tutorial

Copyright Bay is fun, and it has many good links to legislation and court decisions

Washburn University Copyright site has tutorials


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