Copyright Subject Guide LRC@TCC

United States Copyright Office includes copyright basics, "fair use", researching holders of copyright, and a study on distance education issues.

Copyright Crash Course Four stars! Best site I've found, easy to understand, from the University of Texas. Includes Using Material from the Internet. Can you pass the test?

Copyright Clearance Center Where you can get permission to reproduce copyrighted content such as articles and book chapters in your journals, photocopies, course packs, library reserves, Web sites, e-mail and more.

Cornell University Copyright Information Center includes guidelines for professors on how to place materials on electronic reserve without violating copyright law.

Know Your Copy Rights initiative is being developed by the Association of Research Libraries (ARL) and attorney Peggy Hoon, a well-regarded copyright specialist.

Library Copyright Guidelines from the Stanford University Libraries addresses copyright and fair use.

Motion Picture Association of America provides information on public performance rights, issues of movie piracy, and protecting the rights of the movie industry.

World Intellectual Property Organization Learn about the nature of trademarks, copyright, industrial designs, and emerging issues in intellectual property.

Online instruction:

The TEACH Toolkit The Technology, Education, and Copyright Harmonization Act (TEACH Act) is now law. TEACH updates copyright law pertaining to transmissions of performances and displays of copyrighted materials. Such transmissions are critical to current higher education distance education efforts, including online courses.

Technology Education and Copyright Harmonization Act (American Library Association) updates the U.S. Copyright Act to provide for distance education.

Educators Praise Bill to Ease Copyright Restrictions on Online Instruction from the Chronicle of Higher Education.

"Libraries as Creatures of Copyright: Why Librarians Care about Intellectual Property Law and Policy", Carol C. Henderson, Executive Director Washington Office, American Library Association November 1998

Copyright Warning: The copyright law of the United States (Title 17, U.S. Code) governs the making of photocopies or other reproductions of copyrighted material. Under certain conditions specified in the law, libraries and archives are authorized to furnish a photocopy or other reproduction. One of these specified conditions is that photocopy or reproduction is not to be "used for any purpose other than private study, scholarship or research." If a user makes a request for, or later uses, a photocopy or reproduction for purposes in excess of "fair use," that user may be liable for copyright infringement. This institution reserves the right to refuse to accept a copying order if, in its judgment, fulfillment of the order would involve a violation of copyright law.