COPYRIGHT / FAIR USE POLICY

Copyright and Academia . “The established educational guidelines, as well as other regulations and rules regarding libraries are available in Copyright Office Circular 21, "Reproduction of Copyrighted Works by Educators and Librarians, " which can be downloaded at: http://www.copyright.gov/circs/circ21.pdf . 

Copyright and Art Issues . As part of the CONFU (Conference on Fair Use ) initiative, the discussion of copyright and art (images, photos, letters, works of art and others, Christine L. Sundt has compiled a site for links to all the pertinent web pages on this issue. Last revised : June 21, 2006   http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/~csundt/copyweb/#Useful

Copyright and Fair Use Policy. Stanford University 's comprehensive site on the meaning of intellectual property in all forms of materials.   http://fairuse.stanford.edu/

Copyright Clearance Center . Place for academics to get copyright permissions for any materials they believe will warrant such permissions. This includes course reserves and electronic reserves. BlackBoard systems does this internally.   http://www.copyright.com/ccc/viewPage.do?pageCode=ac1-n

Four Fair Use Factors. There are four factors that determine whether the materials used and copied are eligible for exception to copyright regulation under the fair use section of the law. All four factors must be present for an action to be considered fair use. Here is University Of California Community explanation of the FFF.    http://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/copyright/fairuse.html

Libraries and copyright . As part of the Stanford Copyright and Fair Use web site, there is a section devoted specifically to library participation in Fair Use rules.    http://fairuse.stanford.edu/Copyright_and_Fair_Use_Overview/chapter7/7-d.html

Title 17 of the U.S. Code . Cornell University Law School Legal Information Institute has published a page on that section of the U.S. Code that deals with copyright laws.   http://www4.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/