ShareCopyright Resources
Who owns what? How, when, and where can it be used? As classrooms move from being geographically bound to being intellectually bound, instructors are faced with more challenges in determining legal use of digital material. The following resources are designed to assist faculty, distance learning administrators, multimedia developers, website producers, and and students navigate the murkey waters in a sea of new copyright law.
Copyright • Fair Use • TEACH Act • Permissions • Linking • Plagiarism • Developing Policy • Print Resources
- Copyright and Fair Use Guidelines for Teachers (pdf)
- Taking the Mystery Out of Copyright (for Students and Teachers)
- Respect Copyrights - Higher Education
- Code of Best Practices in Fair Use for Media Literacy Education
- Copyright
Clearance Center, Inc.
- Gasaway, Laura N. "When Works Pass Into the Public Domain."
- Harper,
Georgia K. "Copyright Crash Course."
- Harper,
Georgia K. "Copyright Law in Cyberspace."
- Harper,
Georgia K. "Who Owns What?"
- Templeton,
Brad. "10 Big Myths About Copyright Explained."
- U.
S. Copyright Office
- U.
S. Copyright Office. "Circular 22: How to Investigate the Copyright
Status of a Work." (PDF)
- Copyright
and TEACH Act in K12 Classroom
- American Library Association. "Position on Fair Use Guidelines in a Digital Information Environment."
- Code of Best Practices in Fair Use for Media Literacy Education
- CONFU: The Conference on Fair Use
- Harper, Georgia K. "Educational Fair Use Guidelines for Distance Learning."
- Harper, Georgia K. "Fair Use of Copyrighted Materials."
- Will We Need Fair Use in the Twenty-first Century?
- Jones, Tim "RIAA Asks Schoolkids To Assist With Propaganda"
- Jones, Tim "Taking Copyright Education Seriously"
- Stanford University Libraries. "Copyright and Fair Use."
- The TEACH Act Toolkit
- Bruwelheide, Janis. "TEACH Act Highlights and Resources." National Education Association.
- Crews,
Kenneth D. "The Meaning and Importance of the TEACH Act." The
American Library Association.
- Complying with the Digital Millennium Copyright Act
and Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act
- Foster,
Andrea L. "Publishers Must Seek Authors' Permission for Electronic
Reprints, Supreme Court Rules."
- Foster,
Andrea L. "Scholars Want Permission to Copy Electronic Materials." The
Chronicle of Higher Education.
- Clearing Rights for Multimedia Works.
- Getting Permission
- Licensing Library Resources
- Securing Permissions and Releases
- Getting
Permission to Publish: Ten Tips for Website Managers
- Chilling
Effects Clearinghouse
- Chlling
Effects Clearinghouse. "Dallas Morning News Rabid Over Deep Links."
- Chlling
Effects Clearinghouse. "Frequently Asked Questions (and Answers)
about Linking."
- Templeton,
Brad. "Linking Rights."
- Academic Integrity: Avoiding Plagiarism
- Plagiarism: What It is and How to Recognize and Avoid It
- Stoerger,
Sharon. "Plagiarism."
- Harper, Georgia K. "Developing a Comprehensive Copyright Policy to Facilitate Online Learning."
- Higher Education Opportunity Act (HEOA) Role Models
- Greenhouse, Linda. "Justices to Review Copyright Extension." The New York Times. February 20, 2002.
- Harmon, Amy. "A New Direction for Intellectual Property." The New York Times. May 13, 2002.
- Scott, Michael D. Internet and Technology Law Desk Reference 2002.Panel Publishing, 2001.
- Scott, Michael D. Scott on Multimedia Law. 2nd edition. New York: Aspen Publishers, Inc., 1996.
- Stim, Richard. Getting Permission: How to License and Clear Copyrighted Materials Online and Off. Berkeley: Nolo, 2000.
- Zalewski, Daniel. "The Future of Ideas': Protecting the Old With Copyright Law." The New York Times, January 6, 2002.