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Copyright at Hamline
For Hamline faculty and staff.  Information to help you determine whether you need copyright permission and procedures on how to get it if you need it.  Also includes:  Fair Use Checklist; Delivery Options for Supplementary Reading; and related links with more information.
 

Campus Copyright Rights and Responsibilities:  A Basic Guide to Policy Considerations  

Part I of this document provides a primer on copyright law. Part II addresses specific issues that may be relevant to development of an institutional copyright policy.This document has been prepared by the Association of American Publishers, the Association of American Universities, the Association of American University Presses, and the Association of Research Libraries; and has been endorsed by the American Council on Education and the Authors Guild.

 

 

Collectanea:  Collected Perspectives on Copyright
"Blog from UMUC's (University of Maryland University College) Center for Intellectual Property (CIP). The purpose of Collectanea is to provide an opportunity for CIP's virtual scholar to share his/her thoughts, musings, and ideas on intellectual property (IP) law, policy, and culture. Further, to her thoughts on the breaking developments that influence IP now and in the future."

 

Copyright and Fair Use
From Stanford University Libraries, coverage includes:  primary materials (U.S. Constitution, U.S. cases); copyright and fair use overview and guide; current issues and legislation.


Copyright Law and Graduate Research
Information on using copyrighted materials for your research.  Also includes information on obtaining copyright protection for your own work.

Copyright Management Center

"This website provides access to a wide variety of resources about copyright in general and its importance to higher education, including a variety of other pages dealing with the subject of copyright. You can learn more about the Copyright Management Center and what the CMC can do for you, about copyright policies and standards, and about copyright interpretations as applied to particular situations that a professor, librarian, or student may encounter. Topics of particular interest include fair use and distance learning."  From Indiana University.

 

 

Creative Commons

"A single goal unites Creative Commons' current and future projects: to build a layer of reasonable, flexible copyright in the face of increasingly restrictive default rules."


Fair UseIntroduction | Checklist
From Indiana University's Copyright Management Center.

How to Investigate the Copyright Status of a Work
From Copyright.gov

Librarian's Guide to Intellectual Property in the Digital Age


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Reproduction of Copyrighted Works by Educators and Librarians
From Copyright.gov

U.S. Code:  Title 17--Copyrights
The text of the U.S. copyright law.  From the Legal Information Institute (LII)

 


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