Copyright Resources and Current Issues

ARL has created a concise page of links to TEACH act resources. Following those links will provide just about the best background and supporting materials that you will need to understand the act, and the various requirements and policies which should be considered in choosing an organizational method of compliance.

Technology, Education, and Copyright Harmonization (TEACH) Act
http://www.arl.org/info/frn/copy/TEACH.html

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"About the “Current copyright literature” website:

The "Current copyright literature" website is a resource for keeping informed of current articles related to U.S. copyright law. This service is edited by Tobe Liebert, the Assistant Director for Collection Development & Special Projects at the Tarlton Law Library.

Here's the process: I review law journals and law reviews (and a great many other legal periodicals) as they are received in the library. I examine the table of contents of all of these publications and identify any article concerning U.S. copyright law. I then input the basic bibliographic information about each article into this database, and scan the first page of the article. The availability of the first page of the article should better enable readers to know if they are interested in reading the whole article."

http://web.austin.utexas.edu/law_library/copyright/

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Once again, the Creative Commons provides a valuable resource for authors who wish to negotiate with publishers over copyright.

http://sciencecommons.org/literature/authoraddendafaq

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I'm looking with interest at this Power Point presentation by Tomas Lipinski Co-Director of the Center for Information Policy Research at the University of Wisconsin—Milwaukee. It's part of a series of colloquia by University of Ilinois, and it has sparked my interest because of it's approach to the way legislation has changed the roles of insitutional actors regarding copyright.

To Mentor or to Monitor, That is the Question: Evolving Roles for Institutional Actors within the Copyright Law -- A Section 512 Analysis and Critique
http://www.library.uiuc.edu/committee/colloqm/lipinski.htm

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