Copyright & Fair Use

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Subject Directories

•  Internet Public Library > Copyright

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Internet Sites

• American Society of Picture Professionals > Best Practices for Locating Copyright Owners of Photographic and Visual Art
• 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
• U.S. Copyright Office > Reproduction of Copyrighted Works by Educators and Librarians
• 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

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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

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Selected Ebooks

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• 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.

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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, 2006.
       Hl, RO  Reference  KF 2995 .C74 2005  
       AH  Reference  KF 2995 .C74 2000
  
• Fishman, Stephen.  The Copyright Handbook: How to Protect and Use Written Works. Berkeley, CA: Nolo Press, 2004.
       OR  Reference  KF 2995 .F53 2004  
        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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OCC Departmental Web Pages

• OCC Technology Management Committee > Copyright
• Download and Stay Legal

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This page is maintained by  Carol Benson and was last updated on 10/01/2008.