Copyright Resources on the Web — May 24, 2006
Copyright Term and the Public Domain in the United States
- HTML: http://www.copyright.cornell.edu/training/Hirtle_Public_Domain.htm
- PDF: http://www.copyright.cornell.edu/training/copyrightterm.pdf
Ball State University Copyright Center
- http://www.bsu.edu/library/collections/copyright/, especially valuable for its links and lists of royalty free materials.
- http://www.bsu.edu/library/collections/copyright/royaltyfree/
Copyright Clearance Center
- http://www.copyright.com/
- http://www.copyrightoncampus.com/, “Campus Guide to Copyright Compliance” designed for academic institutions
Copyright Resources Online
- http://www.library.yale.edu:80/~okerson/copyproj.html, links to copyright Web sites of many universities
Regents Guide to Understanding Copyright and Educational Fair Use (University System of Georgia)
- http://www.usg.edu/admin/legal/copyright/, a huge site full of Q&A and scenarios
Stanford University Libraries: Copyright and Fair Use
- http://fairuse.stanford.edu/, excellent for “fair use,” but not very useful for Distance Education
University of Texas System (one of the very best sites)
- http://www.utsystem.edu/OGC/IntellectualProperty/admin.htm, included on this page are a section on “Strategies to Reduce the Need for Permissions”
- http://www.utsystem.edu/OGC/IntellectualProperty/cprtindx.htm, “Crash Course in Copyright”
U.S. Copyright Act of 1976
U.S. Copyright Office, Library of Congress, “Copyright Basics”
Public domain dates, from Lolly Gassaway of the University of North Carolina. http://www.unc.edu/~unclng/public-d.htm.