Academic Integrity
What you need to know about Plagiarism
Flier explaining plagiarism created by the NJ Bar Association
Best Practices:
- Code of Best Practices in Fair Use for Online Video
This guide suggests appropriate approaches to using copyrighted material in remix videos that are in tune with the fair use provisions of the copyright law.
The Code of Best Practices in Fair Use for Media Literacy Education
Updated guidelines for using copyrighted media in the classroom under the 'fair use' rights, as well as educational materials and videos about copyright
CONTU Guidelines on Photocopying under Interlibrary Loan Arrangements
http://old.cni.org/docs/infopols/CONTU.html
Interlibrary Loan Copyright Guidelines and Best Practices, from the Copyright Clearance Center
http://www.copyright.com/media/pdfs/ILL-Brochure.pdf
Code of Best Practices in Fair Use for Academic and Research Libraries
http://www.arl.org/pp/ppcopyright/codefairuse/code/index.shtml
Blogs and other Fora
Copyright Advisory Network
http://librarycopyright.net/wordpress/
Copyright Alternatives
Creative Commons
An alternative to "all rights reserved" for folks who want to let other people use but not necessarily profit from their work.
The Power of Open
A document/report/viewbook on the use of Creative Commons Licensing
Copyright Clearance
Copyright Clearance Center
This commercial enterprise manages rights permissions for selected publicatons.
Fair Use
Copyright Office Flyer 102: Fair Use
http://www.copyright.gov/fls/fl102.pdf
A Fair(ly) Use Tale
Video created by students at the Stanford Fair Use Project using fair use snippets of Disney movies.
Stanford Copyright & Fair Use Center
Especially good on Fair Use.
Will Fair Use Survive? Free Expression in the Age of Copyright Control
By Marjorie Heins and Tricia Beckles, Brennan Center for Justice at NYU School of LawReport hosted by the Free Expression Policy Project
Intellectual Property & Politics
ALA
Copyright office of the American Library Association
Center for the Study of the Public Domain
Washington Declaration on Intellectual Property and the Public Interest
The Global Congress on Intellectual Property and the Public Interest, August 25-27, 2011, convened over 180 experts from 32 countries and six continents to help re-articulate the public interest dimension in intellectual property law and policy. This document records the conclusions from the Congress and is now open for endorsements and comments.
Orphan Works: The 30,000 Foot View
Information about orphan works proposals from the Public Knowledge group.
Stealing the Goose: Copyright and Learning
Rory McGreal, International Review of Research in Open and Distance Learning, vol 5, no 3 (2004)http://www.irrodl.org/index.php/irrodl/article/view/205/287
Law/Legal
Copyright, Academia, and the New Scholarship
Article on Faculty Copy Rights vs. Works for Hire, by Kim Dayton
Copyright Law in the United States (BitLaw)
http://www.bitlaw.com/copyright/index.html
Copyright Term and the Public Domain in the United States
Handy Chart
Digital Millenium Copyright Act
http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/z?c105:H.R.2281.ENR:
Text of the final bill through Thomas at the Library of Congress
Digital Millennium Copyright Act Study
http://www.copyright.gov/reports/studies/dmca/dmca_study.html
Report prepared by the Copyright office for Congress on the effects of DMCA
The GSU Lawsuit: You Don't Know How Lucky You Are
http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/home/890709-264/the_gsu_lawsuit_you_dont.html.csp
Reproduction of Copyright Works by Educators and Librarians
http://www.copyright.gov/circs/circ21.pdf
Copyright Office Circular #21
U.S. Code Title 17: Copyrights
http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/html/uscode17/usc_sup_01_17.html
via Cornell University Legal Information Institute
U.S. Copyright Office
Wayback Wednesday: Copyright Lawsuits (from a digitization blog)
http://hurstassociates.blogspot.com/2011/11/wayback-wednesday-copyright-lawsuits.html
UNESCO's ABC of Copyright
http://portal.unesco.org/culture/en/ev.php-URL_ID=40820&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECTION=201.html
Yehuda: The U.S. Copyright Code, In verse
http://jergames.blogspot.com/2006/07/us-copyright-code-in-verse.html
Online education Courses
Copyright for Librarians:
http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/copyrightforlibrarians/Main_Page
EIFL Copyright for Librarians
http://www.eifl.net/copyright-for-librarians
Remixes/Mashups
A Fair(ly) Use Tale
Video created by students at the Stanford Fair Use Project using fair use snippets of Disney movies.
RIP!: A remix manifesto
A documentary about remixers and their relation to modern copyright.
Digitization, Reserves & Other Library Concerns
Boston College's Copyright Policy for Digital Imaging
https://www2.bc.edu/~franka/vrc/copyright.html
Library Digitization Projects and Copyright
http://www.llrx.com/features/digitization.htm
From LLRX
Electronic Reserves Clearinghouse / Jeff Rosedale
archive site
Open Access
- Open access policy adopted at Princeton
Article from The Daily Princetonian about Princeton's new open access copyright policy for its faculty publications. - About the Harvard's Open Access Repository - ROARMAP
The Harvard repository and Harvard's Open Access policy for faculty deposit of electronic copies of their works. - Resources for Authors
From the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition - Standing Up for Open Access
Inside Higher Ed- An article on the response of MIT faculty to an SAE policy, and how it challenged SAE policy.
University & College Copyright information & offices
Know your Copy Rights: Using Copyrighted Works in Academic Settings
http://knowyourcopyrights.org/
Association of Research Libraries :: Copyright & Intellectual Property Policies
http://www.arl.org/pp/ppcopyright/index.shtml
Boston College's Copyright Policy for Digital Imaging
https://www2.bc.edu/~franka/vrc/copyright.html
Columbia Copyright Advisory Office
http://copyright.columbia.edu/copyright/
Copyright and Fair Use in the UMUC Online or Face-to-Face Classroom
http://www.umuc.edu/library/libhow/copyright.cfm
University of Maryland University College
Copyright Crash Course
http://copyright.lib.utexas.edu/
Copyققight information from CUA office of General Council
The Catholic University of America - Campus Legal Clearinghouse
Copyright Office at the University of Michigan
http://www.lib.umich.edu/copyright
Copyright Resource Guide
Indiana University
Know Your Copy Rights
from the Association of Research Libraries
Resources for Authors
http://www.arl.org/sparc/author/index.shtml
From the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition
Stanford Copyright & Fair Use Center
Especially good on Fair Use.
TEACH Act Toolkit
New Copyright Exemptions for Distance Educators: The Technology, Education and Copyright Harmonization (TEACH) Act.
http://permanent.access.gpo.gov/websites/eric.ed.gov/ERIC_Digests/ed470984.htm
ERIC Digest.
UBC Copyright Guidelines for Faculty Staff and Students
http://copyright.ubc.ca/copyright-guidelines-for-faculty-staff-and-students/
This is Canadian so the specifics don't apply, but I really like the way this policy is laid out.