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Copyright law & lessons
- Copyright On Campus Film created by the Copyright Clearance Center.
- Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) Act covers issues unique to copyright and digital materials used for teaching online.
- TEACH Act The U.S. Copyright Office definition of Act which tries to balance the needs of copyright owners and educators.
- BYU Copyright Tutorial A short video teaches the basics of copyright law.
Fair use
- Fair Use Checklist Not sure if your use is fair? Columbia U. has a checklist.
- Code of Best Practices Media Literacy & Fair Use Center for Media and Social Impact
- Copyright Basics Ivy Tech Community College Libraries
- Copyright humor Applying the doctrine of fair use, Eric Faden teaches viewers about copyright through this transformative work.
- Copyright in Online Courses Copyright Clearance Center's guide to copyright in course management systems.
- Copyright and eReserves Copyright Clearance Center's guide to copyright and electronic reserves.
Performance rights
Books on the library shelves
Compact Copyright by
Focusing on copyright topics that arise frequently, including the right of first sale, fair use, and copying for preservation, this book will help library workers provide quick guidance for common situations. Faculty, students, and colleagues come to you with copyright questions, both simple and complex. And they all want reliable answers--as fast as you can get them. With this guide, designed for ready access, you'll be prepared to deliver. Lawyer, copyright librarian, and iSchool instructor Benson presents succinct explanations ideal for both on-the-fly reference and staff training. Copyright specialists will appreciate excerpts from the law itself alongside tools and resources for digging deeper. Practical discussions of key legal concepts, illustrated using 52 scenarios, will lead you to fast, accurate answers on a range of topics, such as barriers to using the TEACH Act provisions in content for online teaching; showing a full-length movie in a university class; public domain and the 1998 Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act; your legal options when receiving a DMCA take-down notice; court interpretations of fair use in three key recent cases; Creative Commons licenses, complete with a quick reference chart; library rights to license photographs in a digital collection; using letters under copyright in a special collections display case; a grad student's right to use in a thesis writing published in their professor's journal article; applying the implied license option to post historical student dissertations in institutional repositories; the Marrakesh Treaty provision supporting transfer of accessible works internationally; and limiting factors for interlibrary loan.
