Copyright: General Information

History:

• Timeline of Copyright Milestones from Library of Congress

General Copyright Resources:

• United States Copyright Office
• Copyright Internet Resources
• Copyright Basics
• Copyright Information Fact Sheets

Fair Use:

• Fair Use  from U.S. Copyright Office
• Fair Use Overview from Stanford University Libraries, Nolo, c.2007
• Copyright and Fair Use from Stanford University Libraries
• Fair Use FAQs (Frequently Asked Questions) from Electronic Frontier Foundation, 3/21/02
• Fair Use on the Internet (pdf) from The Congressional Research Service, Library of Congress

Public Domain:

• Copyright Term and the Public Domain in the United States (Cornell University, January 1, 2008)
• “Welcome to the Public Domain” from Copyright and Fair Use, Stanford University Libraries, Nolo, c.2007

Digital Copyright

• Website Copyright — Digital Issues (internet, software, web sites—cases and issues, DMCA, misrepresentation)
• YouTube -- Copyright and Rights Management
• Digital Millennium Copyright Act

Groups Interested in Copyright Protection:

• Copyright Clearance Center
• Electronic Frontier Foundation
  • Digital Rights Management
• The Recording Industry Association of America
  • Piracy Online and On the Street
  • For Students Doing Reports
• Motion Picture Association of America: Content Protection
• Artists Rights Society

"Open Access” Publishing (mostly from the scientific community) & the “free content” movement:

• PubMed Central from National Institute of Health
• BioMed Central
• PLoS (Public Library of Science)
• Highwire Press from Stanford University
• SPARC (Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition)
• Directory of Open Access Journals
• Creative Commons
• Google Scholar

Legal Resources:

• U.S. Code, Title 17 — Copyrights
• Digital Millennium Copyright Act
  • Summary from UCLA Online Institute for Cyberspace Law & Policy
• Copyright Information from The World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO)

For questions and feedback, please contact Laurel Espell, Librarian, at (916) 227-3204.