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.

Best Practices (Center for Social Media) answers questions about educational use of documentary videos, open course ware, online videos, poetry, and other tools for media literacy.

Copyright (American Library Association) answers "Is this fair use?"

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

Section 108 spinner and Public Domain Slider to help determine copyright compliance. Copyright Section 108 spinner is a useful tool that can help determine whether a particular reproduction is covered by the 108 exemption. (ALA Office for Information Technology Policy)

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.

Know Your Copy Rights looks at copyright from the perspectives of all key academic stakeholders and suggests what each group can do to enhance their copyright practices and advance academic interests. Includes FAQs.

Visual Resources Association Intellectual Property Rights Committee--the Statement on the Fair Use of Images for Teaching, Research, and Study addresses the use of images for teaching, research, study, and the incorporation of images into dissertations and theses (and the subsequent inclusion of those dissertations and theses in databases that help facilitate access to, and preserve, those academic works).

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

Why Librarians Care about Intellectual Property Law and Policy by Carol C. Henderson, former Executive Director Washington Office, American Library Association

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.