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General Resources
Binghamton
University Copyright Policy
"Helps campus faculty, researchers, staff, and students make informed
decisions about the legal use of intellectual property in fulfilling their
teaching and research activities in the classroom and on the Internet."
Help with Copyright
and Fair Use PPT
Overview of copyright and fair use issues based on a Technology Training Center
workshop.
Chilling Effects Clearinghouse
Joint project between Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) and several
law school clinics. A searchable web site of “cease and desist”
letters.
Copyright & Fair Use
Comprehensive site with links to primary materials, current legislation, copyright
resources on the Internet, and an overview of copyright law. Includes a search
engine for the site. Produced by the Stanford University Libraries.
Copyright and Intellectual
Property Rights
Provides links to copyright resources, which are organized as
follows: Current Awareness, Reference, Organizations, Initiatives
& Projects, Articles & Papers, Policy Examples & Court
Opinions. This site also includes a Quick Bibliography from the
Current Cites database. The bibliography is produced dynamically at
the moment of request and includes citations from January 1994 to the present.
Copyright
Law in the Electronic Environment (Faculty)
Written for faculty by Georgia Harper, Office of General Counsel, University
of Texas System. She addresses specific copyright questions, such as who has
rights to materials on the Internet, how analog fair-use applies to the multi-media
world, and what is and isn't in the public domain.
Copyright Management Center
This site represents the Copyright Management Center at IUPUI which
is directed by Dr. Kenneth Crews, a Professor in the School of Law,
as well as in the School of Library and Information Science. One of
the features of this site is the Indiana University Online Copyright
Tutorial for "anyone who wants to learn to work with copyright
while maintaining focus on academic goals."
Copyright Renewal Database
This database from Stanford Unversity has U.S. copyright renewal records for books whose copyrights were renewed between 1950 and 1992. The renewal records are for books published between 1923 and 1963.
Creative Commons
Creative Commons is a non-profit organization that promotes a voluntary "some
rights reserved" model of copyright. The site includes a searchable
database of audio, images, text, video, and other formats that are free
to share online, as well as tools for authors who wish to publish their work
with "some rights reserved."
Scholarly Communication Center
From North Carolina State University, this site includes a copyright tutorial,
permissions information, and more.
The
TEACH Toolkit from NCSU
The TEACH Act updates copyright law as it relates to transmissions of performances
and displays of copyrighted materials over computer networks.
The
UT System Crash Course in Copyright
A "just-the-facts" approach to copyright. Simple definitions can
easily be understood by non-lawyers. This site also has links to other sources
of copyright information.
U.S. Copyright Office Home Page
This is where it all begins, the home page of the U.S. Copyright Office at
the Library of Congress. There are answers to frequently asked questions,
texts of copyright bulletins, copyright basics, and much more. However, don't
look for interpretations or guidelines here. This is just the law as it stands.
Permissions
Copyright Clearance Center, Inc. Online
(CCC)
The CCC, a not-for-profit organization created at the suggestion of Congress,
was established by authors, publishers and users as the not-for-profit Reproduction
Rights Organization (RRO) for the United States. The CCC operates collective
licensing systems that facilitate compliance with the copyright law by providing
authorized users a lawful means of making photocopies from more than 1.75
million titles.
Copyright Permissions
Sample Forms and Letters from NCSU
International Federation of Reproduction Rights
of Organizations
Starting place for foreign permissions.
Film, Video, & DVD
Motion Picture Licensing Corporation
Independent copyright licensing service authorized by major Hollywood motion
picture studios and independent producers to grant umbrella licenses to non-profit
groups and organizations
Time Warner
Includes Time, Warner Brothers, Warner Music, CNN, Turner Broadcasting, and
HBO
Sony
Sony Pictures and CBS