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Copyright -- General Info
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IEEE Spectrum: What Can You (Legally) Take From the Web?
Intellectual property law has a history of clashing with new technologies. In the early 1900s, for example, when player pianos were all the rage, the U.S. Supreme Court decided that the perforated music rolls fed into player pianos were not music—essentially because they didn’t look like sheet music and performed a mechanical function. The ruling meant that sellers of the music rolls did not infringe the copyrights of the composers whose music was played by means of the rolls. The copyright law was eventually changed to address that unfair situation, but the copyright/technology clash has continued with the advent of video players, Napster, and CD burners.
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Copyright.com: The rights licensing experts - Copyright Clearance Center
RAND pays for an Annual Business License with the Copyright Clearance Center (CCC) that provides permissions to legally use and share excerpts from materials (i.e. books, journals, etc.) listed in CCC's rights database. \n\nSearch for a specific journal title in the CCC database to find out with whom, and how you can share articles from that journal. The CCC is also a good source for background information on copyright, and recent copyright news.
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U.S. Copyright Office
The U.S. Copyright Office website includes copyright news, links to regulations and laws relating to copyright, a copyright FAQ, an RSS feed for regular updates, and more.\n\n“Copyright information from the official source. The site contains basic facts, an FAQ, law and legislative documents, fee information, application forms, and information on licensing and registering a work.” The site also includes an RSS feed and e-mail alerts for regular updates.
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Copycense
“Copycense is an online publication that provides insight, commentary, and scholarship on copyright, licensing, intellectual property, and digital media.” Articles are not without a point-of-view and review copyright legislation, licensing and permissions, fair use and more.
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Welcome to ©Primer
The Copyright Primer is “an introduction to issues concerning copyright ownership and use of information. The interactive tutorial overviews the underlying principles behind copyright in the United States, outlines the requirements for copyright protection as well as discusses the parameters of use and access of copyrighted material.” From the Center for Intellectual Property at the University of Maryland University College. Although the site was originally created in 2002, it is regularly updated.
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Primary Sources on Copyright (1450-1900)
This is a digital archive of primary sources on copyright from the invention of the printing press (c. 1450) to the Berne Convention (1886) and beyond. The initial phase focuses on key materials from Renaissance Italy (Venice, Rome), France, the German speaking countries, Britain and the United States.
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Copyright Tutorials
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Copyright Use Tutorial: NCSU Libraries
"This tutorial will assist faculty, staff, and students at NC State University in navigating the often confusing area of copyright law in academic situations. The tutorial focuses on common issues found at the University, with particular emphasis on the the doctrine of "fair use.""
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Fair Use Issues
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Stanford Copyright & Fair Use - Copyright and Fair Use Overview and Resources
Provides an overview of 'fair use' and other copyright related topics. The site also includes links to current legislation, articles and blogs about copyright, and more. This site is sponsored by Stanford University Libraries and Academic Information Resources, Justia, NOLO, LibraryLaw.com & Onecle.
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University of Minnesota Libraries -- Copyright Initiatives
The site includes an overview of the fair use doctrine ‘which allows users of copyrighted works to exercise some rights under certain circumstances without seeking permission or paying royalties.’ It includes a description of the four fair use factors and tools for evaluating the applicability of the doctrine. From the University of Minnesota Libraries.
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Copyright -- Length of copyright terms
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Copyright Term and the Public Domain in the United States
The laws and rules governing public domain are complicated. The Cornell Copyright Information Center chart (updated January 2007) makes the math easy. The chart covers published and unpublished works, both in the US and abroad. It also includes foot notes where more explanation is required.
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Royalty-free Images
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compfight / a flickr™ search tool
Compfight is a new search tool that allows you to search for pictures posted to the Web photo hosting site flikr. To get copyright-free images, be sure to check a box that lets you search for Creative Commons-licensed images (i.e., royalty-free images for which you must provide attribution to the author).
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