Copyright Guide - Copyright Basics

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Copyright Basics

http://www.copyright.gov/title17/

The Copyright statute is available from the U.S. Copyright Office.

http://ogc.arizona.edu/node/16

The University of Arizona Office of General Counsel provides several resources including a one-page introduction to fair use, a check list to help you deterimine if your specific use might be fair, and a guide for users of peer-to-peer software on campus.

http://copyright.lib.utexas.edu/
Georgia Harper at the University of Texas System has updated her Copyright Crash Course web site. She has sections on managing your creative output, building on the works of others, and institutional management of both copyright and risk.

www.benedict.com/
The Copyright Website has good, basic information about copyright issues.

www.unc.edu/~unclng/public-d.htm
Laura Gasaway's Public Domain Chart is a good starting point for trying to figure out what is in the public domain.

http://librarycopyright.net/digitalslider/

Alternatively, this digital "slider" helps you determine if an item by a personal author is covered by copyright or in the public domain. Click in the date range of your item and your answer shows up in the box.

http://www.library.arizona.edu/services/faculty/scholcom/fairuse/

The UA Office of General Counsel prepared a Fair Use Checklist. Check the boxes that apply to your use to help make a personal judgement if your specific use is fair. At the end you can create a PDF for your records.

www.loc.gov/copyright/forms/
U.S. Copyright Office Forms are available in PDF format (Adobe Acrobat Reader required).

tyler.hrc.utexas.edu/
WATCH (Writers, Artists, and Their Copyright Holders): Information on Locating Copyright Holders from the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center.

collections.stanford.edu/copyrightrenewals/bin/page?forward=home
Copyright Renewal Database: "This database makes searchable the copyright renewal records received by the US Copyright Office between 1950 and 1993 for books published in the US between 1923 and 1963. Note that the database includes ONLY US Class A (book) renewals."