Jeanne Boyle Associate University Librarian   for Planning and Organizational Research jeboyle@rci.rutgers.edu June 9, 2009

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Legal Materials Rutgers University Policies and Resources Digital Tools Fair Use General Guidelines Codes of Best Practices Tips, Guides, FAQs General Citation Guides Materials on the Web Permissions Key Internet Sites Indexes Organizations Author/Publisher Agreements Licensing Related Rutgers Resources

Top tools to answer your copyright questions: Copyright Law - Some Basics Copyright Term and the Public Domain in the United States Fair Use Checklist Licensed Digital Resources Reserve Services, A Guide for Faculty Know Your Copyrights: Resources for Teaching Faculty Resources for Authors Write to: copyright@rutgers.edu

The Congress shall have Power To promote the Progress of Science and Useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries...
The Constitution of the United States. Article I. Section 8.

Legal Materials

• U.S. Constitution (Article I, Section 8, paragraph 8)
• U.S. Copyright Law
• Federal Regulations
• New/Pending Legislation
• Digital Millennium Copyright Act
• Digital Millennium Copyright Act Summary [PDF]
• Copyright Term Extension Act
• TEACH Act (US Copyright Office)
• TEACH Act Resources
  • New Copyright Law for Distance Education: The Meaning and Importance of the TEACH Act (Kenneth D. Crews)
  • The TEACH Toolkit (North Carolina State University)
  • Technological Protection Systems for Digitized Copyrighted Works: A Report to Congress (US Patent and Trademark Office)
• Primary Sources in Copyright (1450-1900)
• Other - Law About Copyright (Legal Information Institute, Cornell University)
• Collection of National Copyright Laws (UNESCO)

Rutgers University Policies and Resources

• Copyright Policy (Rutgers University) [PDF]
• Copyright Information: Acceptable Use Policy, Designated Agent (Rutgers University)
• Copyright Seminar Materials
  • Copyright Law - Some Basics (Jonathan Alger and Elizabeth Minott) [PDF]
  • Licensed Digital Resources (Jeanne Boyle) [PDF]
• Copyright Policy (Rutgers University Libraries)
• Reserve Services, A Guide for Faculty (Rutgers University Libraries)

Digital Tools

• Digital Copyright Slider: Is it Protected by Copyright? (Michael Brewer and the American Library Association)
• Section 108 Spinner: Reproductions by Libraries or Archives for their Users, for Replacement, or for Preservation (Michael Brewer and the American Library Association)

Fair Use

General

• Copyright and Fair Use (Stanford University)
• Fair Use Checklist (Columbia University Libraries Copyright Advisory Office)
• Fair Use Rules of Thumb (UT System)

Guidelines

Guidelines do not have the force of law. Existing guidelines were developed following passage of the Copyright Act of 1976 and provide "safe harbor" recommendations. Proposed guidelines were considered by the Conference on Fair Use, which adjourned without agreement.

Codes of Best Practices

• Documentary Filmmakers’ Statement (Center for Social Media)
• Media Literacy Education (Center for Social Media)
• Online Video (Center for Social Media)

Tips, Guides, FAQ’s

In the developing digital environment, it is wise to consult several sources of copyright information before making a judgment about how you will proceed. This sampling of help pages available on the web may help answer your questions.

General

• 10 Big Myths About Copyright Explained (Brad Templeton)
• And Then There's Copyright (Sharon A. Fordham Multimedia Laboratory) [PDF]
• Copyright Basics (U.S. Copyright Office) [PDF]
• Copyright FAQs (Stanford University Libraries)
• Copyright Law & Graduate Research: New Media, New Rights, and Your New Dissertation (Kenneth D. Crews)
• Copyright Matters (Jeanne Boyle)
• Copyright Term and the Public Domain in the United States (Peter B. Hirtle)
• Know Your Copy Rights: Using Copyrighted Works in Academic Settings (Association of Research Libraries, 2007)
  Brochure: Know Your Copyrights - What You Can Do (This link is to the black and white version. The color version takes time to download and is available here.) FAQ: Using Copyrighted Works in Your Teaching: Questions Faculty and Teaching Assistants Need to Ask Themselves Frequently
• Orphan Works (Columbia University Libraries Copyright Advisory Office)
• Tales from the Public Domain: Bound by Law? (Duke Center for the Study of the Public Domain, 2006)
• When Works Pass into the Public Domain (Laura Gasaway)

Citation Guides

Materials on the Web

• Advanced Web Server Features / Access Control/Authentication (Camden Computing Services)
• Copyright and Image Management (University of Texas)
• Copyright Issues Relevant to Creation of a Digital Archive: A Preliminary Assessment (Council on Library Resources and Library of Congress)
• Copyright Law in the Electronic Environment (University of Texas)
• Fair Use & Multimedia Web Sites (Stanford University)
• Guide to Good Practice in the Digital Representation and Management of Cultural Heritage Materials (NINCH) [PDF]
• Handbook for Digital Projects: A Management Tool for Preservation and Access (Northeast Document Conservation Center) [PDF]
• Intellectual Property Law Primer for Multimedia Developers (Timestream)
• Reproduction of Materials on Web Site / Content Restrictions for Reproduction of Materials on Museum Web Site (Lauryn H. Guttenplan) [PDF]
• Using Materials from the Internet: What are the Rules? (University of Texas)
• General Information About Copyrights (Oppedahl & Larson)

Permissions

• Getting Permission (University of Texas)
• How to Investigate the Copyright Status of a Work (US Copyright Office) [PDF]
• Identifying the Copyright Owner (Columbia University Libraries Copyright Advisory Office)

Key Internet Sites

• Center for Intellectual Property and Copyright in the Digital Environment (University of Maryland University Colllege)
• Columbia University Libraries Copyright Advisory Office
• Copyright and Fair Use (Stanford University Libraries)
• Copyright Clearance Center
• The Copyright Website (Benedict O’Mahoney)
• U.S. Copyright Office
• University of Texas System Crash Course in Copyright
• A Visit to Copyright Bay (University of St. Francis)

Indexes

• Copyright Renewal Database (Stanford University)
• Notices of Restored Copyrights (U.S. Copyright Office)
• Online Service Providers (Designated Agents) (U.S. Copyright Office)
• Registrations and Documents (U.S. Copyright Office)
• Vessel Hull Designs (U.S. Copyright Office)

Organizations

• American Association of University Professors
       - Copyright/Intellectual Property (scroll down)
• American Library Association Washington Office
       - Copyright
• Association for Computing Machinery
       - ACM Copyright Policy
• Association of American Publishers
       - Copyright and Copyright
• Association of American Universities
       - Campus Copyright Rights and Responsibilities: A Basic Guide To Policy Considerations [PDF]
• Association of American University Presses
       - Copyright and Permissions Resources
• Association of Research Libraries
       - Copyright and Intellectual Property Policies
• Center for Social Media      - Fair Use & Copyright
• Coalition for Networked Information
       - Information Policies: A Compilation of Position Statements, Principles, Statutes, and Other Pertinent Statements
• Committee on Institutional Cooperation
• Digital Future Coalition
• EDUCAUSE
       - EDUCOM Code: Software and Intellectual Rights
• National Humanities Alliance
• National Research Council
       - The Digital Dilemma: Intellectual Property in the Information Age
• Visual Resources Association
       - Image Collection Guidelines:The Acquisition and Use of Images in Non-Profit Educational Visual Resources Collection; Copy Photography Computator; and other resources
       - Image Collection Guidelines:The Acquisition and Use of Images in Non-Profit Educational Visual Resources Collections
• World Intellectual Property Organization
       - Copyright and Related Rights

Author/Publisher Agreements

• Agreement to Extend Authors' Rights (Boston Library Consortium) [PDF]
• Author’s Rights, Tout de suite (Charles W. Bailey, Jr.) [PDF]
• Authors' Licenses (Liblicense, Yale University Library and the Council on Library Resources)
• Authors' Rights and Publishing (Boston Library Consortium)
• Contract Resources (National Writers Union)
• Author Copyright Agreements for ALA Division Journals and Newsletters (American Library Association)
• Licensingmodels.com
• Publisher Copyright Policies & Self-Archiving (SHERPA/RoMEO)
• PubMed Central Deposit and Author Rights (Association of Research Libraries) [PDF]
• Resources for Authors (SPARC)
• Retaining Rights to Use Your Works: Copyright Challenges for Faculty (Scholarly Communication Center, NCSU)
• Scholar's Copyright Addendum Engine (SPARC)
• Statement on Publishing Agreements (Committee on Institutional Cooperation (CIC))

Licensing

• AFFECT (Americans for Fair Electronic Commerce Transaction)
• ASJA Contracts Watch (American Society of Journalists and Authors)
• Choose License (Creative Commons)
• International Consortium of Library Consortia
• Liblicense: Licensing Digital Information (Yale University Library / Council on Library Resources)
• Uniform Computer Information Transactions Act (UCITA) (Association of Research Libraries)

Related Rutgers Resources

• Office of Corporate Liaison and Technology Transfer
• Copyright Resources on the WWW (Kay E. Vandergrift)