Copyright Resources and Current Issues

This page has a self-description that says it best:

"Developed at MIT, this amendment is a tool authors can use to retain rights when assigning copyright to a publisher. It will enable authors to continue using their publications in their academic work at MIT, to deposit them into the MIT Libraries' DSpace repository, and to deposit any NIH-funded manuscripts on the National Library of Medicine's PubMed Central database."

http://libraries.mit.edu/about/scholarly/copyright-form.html

Posted by Lorre Smith at 10:15 AM | Permalink | Comments (0)

The Library Planet blog has a category for fair use which is well worth reading:

http://www.libraryplanet.com/?c=Fair+Use

There's a lot there on Digital Rights Management (DRM) which is code for not allowing any copying.

Posted by Lorre Smith at 02:23 PM | Permalink | Comments (0)

Here's another area of the University of Texas site on copyright with a neat index to topics of special interest for teachers. Although it's obviously aimed at the Texas faculty, it's got a good deal of general information that'll be useful for all of us.

http://www.utsystem.edu/ogc/IntellectualProperty/asklaw.htm

Posted by Lorre Smith at 10:32 AM | Permalink | Comments (0)

From the Create Change website, this page gives much of the story on what any individual scholarly author can do to get the ball rolling.

As researcher and author
As editor
As reviewer
As society member
As teacher
As faculty member

It provides step by step ideas on how to use the current structure of the web to make schoarly resources available as a public good without prohibitive price or copyright barriers.

http://www.createchange.org/changeandyou.html

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