Copyright for Librarians

Section 108

• Library Copying: Section 108
• What is Section 108? (PowerPoint)
• Peter Hirtle: Section 108 Study Group
• Section 108 Spinner

Useful Copyright Resources

• Digital Copyright Slider [from the American Library Association] 
• Georgia Harper's Crash Course in Copyright at the University of Texas
• Copyright Law in CyberSpace
• Copyright Ownership in Blogs
• Copyright Term and the Public Domain in the United States
• When Works Pass into the Public Domain
• Orphan Works Best Practices
• Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA)
• Copyright for Teachers and School Librarians
• U.S. Copyright Office Home Page
• Current Copyright Literature from the Tarlton Law Library

Fair Use

• Video: A Fair(y) Use Tale
• Columbia University Fair Use Checklist
• Fair Use Statement of Images for Teaching, Research, and Study from the Visual Resources Association's Intellectual Property Rights Committee  (PDF)
• Code of Best Practices in Fair Use for Media Literacy Education
• Code of Best Practices in Fair Use for Scholarly Research in Communication
• Best Practices in Fair Use of Dance-related Materials
• Fair Use Frequently Asked Questions
• An Overview of the Fair Use Guidelines for Educational Multimedia

Classroom Copyright

• K-12 Copyright Laws: Primer for Teachers
• Performance of or Showing Films in the Classroom (PDF)
• Streaming of Films for Educational Purposes (PDF)
• Kastenmeier Off-air Guidelines

Licensing

• Creative Commons

The TEACH Act

• Association of Research Libraries TEACH Act Information
• University of Texas TEACH Act Information
• TEACH Act Toolkit
• TEACH Act Compliance 

Ball State Copyright Resources

• 2011 Copyright Conference
• Copyright for Students
• Copyright for Distance Educators
• ©opyright Forum

Other Resources

• Teaching Copyright [from the Electronic Frontier Foundation]
• Search the Copyright Law (Cornell Law School)
• Stanford Copyright Renewal Database
• Recent Copyright Law Amendments
• European Intellectual Property Association
• WolframAlpha: a Computational Knowledge Engine