Copyright & Fair Use

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Subject Directories

• Internet Public Library > Copyright

Internet Sites

• U.S. Copyright Office > Reproduction of Copyrighted Works by Educators and Librarians
• Campus Copyright Rights and Responsibilities: a Basic Guide to Policy Considerations
• Copyright Management Center - From Indiana University Purdue University - Indianapolis
• Copyrights at the University of Michigan
• Plagiary: Cross-Disciplinary Studies in Plagiarism, Fabrication, and Falsification - From Saginaw Valley State University
• Summary Index to Usable Portions of Copyrighted Works - From the Consortium of College and University Media Centers
• Using the Four Factor Fair Use Test - From the University of Texas System
• When U.S. Works Pass Into the Public Domain - From Lolly Gasaway at the University of North Carolina

Articles: Indexes and Full Text

• ERIC (Educational Resource Information Center) (EBSCOhost)
  • On-Campus
  • Off-Campus
• Expanded Academic ASAP (Infotrac)
  • On-Campus
  • Off-Campus
• WilsonSelectPlus (FirstSearch)
  • On-Campus
  • Off-Campus

Selected Ebooks

Read books at your computer! But first: Read some FAQs about ebooks and how to set up your account in netLibrary. After you set up your account, you can return here to link to the books below. You may also search for books directly in netLibrary.

• Elias, Stephen.  Patent, Copyright, & Trademark.  3rd ed. Berkeley, CA: Nolo Pr., 1999.
• National Research Council. Committee on Intellectual Property Rights in the Emerging Information Infrastructure. Digital Dilemma: Intellectual Property in the Information Age. Washington, DC: National Academy Press, 2000.
• Stim, Richard.  Getting Permission: How to License and Clear Copyrighted Materials Online & Off.  Berkeley, CA: Nolo.com, 2000.

Print Sources

• To find print (and some non-print) materials in OCC Libraries, search the Library Catalog. Some sample Library of Congress Subject Headings searches are:
  • copyright
  • copyright and distance education
  • fair use (copyright)
  • intellectual property
     
• Selected Reference Books
  • Crews, Kenneth D.  Copyright Essentials for Librarians and Educators.  Chicago: American Library Association, 2000.
         RO  Reference  KF 2995 .C74 2000
  • Fishman, Stephen.  The Copyright Handbook: How to Protect and Use Written Works. Berkeley, CA: Nolo Press, 1997.
         HL  Reference  KF 2995 .F53 1997
  • Elias, Stephen.  Patent, Copyright, and Trademark: a Desk Reference to Intellectual Property Law.  Berkeley, CA: Nolo Press, 1996.
         RO  Reference  KF 2980 .E44 1996
     
• Browsing Call Numbers (in Library of Congress Classification)
  • KF 2994     Law. United States.
  • KF 3030.1  Law. United States.

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