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Directory of Open Access Repositories
They describe it best themselves on their home page:
"OpenDOAR is an authoritative directory of academic open access repositories. Each OpenDOAR repository has been visited by project staff to check the information that is recorded here. This in-depth approach does not rely on automated analysis and gives a quality-controlled list of repositories."
This is a paper by Michael Carroll, and is one of many on copyright by him available through the site. By clicking on the author link at the top of the page it's easy to see what else is available for download via the SSRN site.
Although he is arguing for open access to legal scholarship, he has written something that can serve as an interesting and worthwhile perspective in the open access movement.
The Digital Copyright Canada forum discusses many things regarding Canadian Copyright, and the links page is a good Canada-centric list of interesting links.
The University of Wisconsin Extension Clearinghouse has a good selected list of copyright resources of interest to professionals in higher education.
It is kept up to date and has good annotations. It points to organizations, discussion lists, a blog or two and good tutorials among other things.
Lorre Bob sez check it out.
I was cruising around my copyright bookmarks, looking for stuff I haven't seen before and came across these pages. It's all news about copyright and patents. I know I'm going to be checking it often.
From their FAQ pages:
JURIST (http://jurist.law.pitt.edu) is a Web-based legal news and real-time legal research service powered by a mostly-volunteer team of over 30 part-time law student reporters, editors and Web developers led by law professor Bernard Hibbitts at the University of Pittsburgh School of Law in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA.
JURIST is produced as a public service for the continuing legal education of its readers and law student staffers, and uses the latest Internet technology to track important legal news stories and materials and present them rapidly, objectively and intelligibly in an accessible, ad-free format.
I took part in an engaging panel discussion over the weekend: To "Quote" or Not to Quote
Understanding Intellectual Property Rights for Writers of Fiction, Nonfiction, and Poetry and selected resources to show the audience.
Here's the list:
General
Intellectual Property, Copyright and Fair Use Resources
http://library.albany.edu/digital/copyright.html
American Library Association Resource Page on Copyright Issues
http://www.ala.org/ala/washoff/WOissues/copyrightb/copyright.htm
Copyright law
Subject matter and scope of copyright:
http://www.copyright.gov/title17/92chap1.html - 102
Exclusive rights in copyrighted works
http://www.copyright.gov/title17/92chap1.html - 106
Limitations on exclusive rights: Fair Use
http://www.copyright.gov/title17/92chap1.html - 107
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International copyright
WIPO Copyright Treaty
http://www.wipo.int/treaties/en/ip/wct/trtdocs_wo033.html
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Public Domain
When Works Pass Into the Public Domain in the United States
http://www.copyright.cornell.edu/training/Hirtle_Public_Domain.htm
“When works pass into the public domain” by Lolly Gassaway
http://www.unc.edu/~unclng/public-d.htm
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Getting permission
Sample Permissions Letter
http://www.umi.com/hp/Support/DServices/copyrght/AppxA.html
Sample permission letter:
http://www.umi.com/umi/dissertations/copyright/AppxA.html
http://www.lib.ncsu.edu/scc/misc/contents.html
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Orphan Works
Center for the Study of the Public Domain
http://www.law.duke.edu/cspd/orphanworks.html
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Author Rights
Creative Commons
http://www.creativecommons.org/learn/licenses
http://creativecommons.org/license/
Actions Faculty Members Can Take
http://www.ala.org/ala/acrl/acrlissues/scholarlycomm/scholarlycommunicationtoolkit/faculty/actnowfaculty/actnow.htm
Retaining Rights to Use Your Works: Copyright Challenges for Faculty
http://www.lib.ncsu.edu/scc/misc/language.html
Reserving Rights of Use in Works Submitted for Publication:
Negotiating Publishing Agreements
http://www.copyright.iupui.edu/nego_doc.htm
I'm a little late on passing the word about Section 108 Study Group round table discussions, but the Library of Congress has published a schedule for written comments in their newsletter:
http://www.copyright.gov/newsnet/2007/305.html
The Study Group full story:
As anyone who reads this blog has noticed, I almost never have negative things to say about websites that I include here, thinking of it as a selective list of sites that I think are worth exploring.
But...The Digital Future Coalition is a site that should be mention as one exemplifying what NOT to do.
The Coalition was formed to track the Digital Millenium Copyright Act, and apparently lasted until 1999. However, the pages have a cute little code that gives today's date when you look at them. At the very least, these pages should have some sort of date on them to give users a clue about when they were created, that they're not being updated, etc.
If your organization joins a coalition, just make sure that when the coalition dies the web pages go away!!!
Shame on all of these Coalition members for allowing the Undead to remain on the web.
* ALLIANCE FOR PUBLIC TECHNOLOGY (APT)
* THE AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF LAW LIBRARIES (AALL)
* THE AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF LEGAL PUBLISHERS (AALP)
* THE AMERICAN COMMITTEE FOR INTEROPERABLE SYSTEMS (ACIS)
* THE AMERICAN COUNCIL OF LEARNED SOCIETIES (ACLS)
* THE AMERICAN HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION (AHA)
* THE AMERICAN LIBRARY ASSOCIATION (ALA)
* THE ART LIBRARIES SOCIETY OF NORTH AMERICA (ARLIS/NA)
* THE ASSOCIATION OF AMERICAN GEOGRAPHERS (AAG)
* THE ASSOCIATION OF RESEARCH LIBRARIES (ARL)
* THE COLLEGE ART ASSOCIATION (CAA)
* THE COMMITTEE OF CONCERNED INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY EDUCATORS
* THE COMPUTER & COMMUNICATIONS INDUSTRY ASSOCIATION (CCIA)
* COMPUTER PROFESSIONALS FOR SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY (CPSR)
* THE CONFERENCE ON COLLEGE COMPOSITION AND COMMUNICATION (CCCC)
* CONSORTIUM FOR SCHOOL NETWORKING
* THE CONSORTIUM OF SOCIAL SCIENCE ORGANIZATIONS (COSSA)
* THE CONSUMER FEDERATION OF AMERICA (CFA)
* THE CONSUMER PROJECT ON TECHNOLOGY (CPT)
* THE ELECTRONIC FRONTIER FOUNDATION (EFF)
* THE ELECTRONIC PRIVACY INFORMATION CENTER (EPIC)
* THE HOME RECORDING RIGHTS COALITION (HRRC)
* INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR TECHNOLOGY IN EDUCATION
* THE MODERN LANGUAGE ASSOCIATION (MLA)
* THE MUSIC LIBRARY ASSOCIATION
* THE NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF INDEPENDENT SCHOOLS (NAIS)
* THE NATIONAL COUNCIL OF TEACHERS OF ENGLISH (NCTE)
* THE NATIONAL EDUCATION ASSOCIATION (NEA)
* THE NATIONAL HUMANITIES ALLIANCE (NHA)
* THE NATIONAL INITIATIVE FOR A NETWORKED CULTURAL HERITAGE (NINCH)
* THE NATIONAL SCHOOL BOARDS ASSOCIATION (NSBA)
* THE NATIONAL WRITERS UNION (NWU)
* SOCIETY FOR CINEMA STUDIES
* THE SOCIETY OF AMERICAN ARCHIVISTS (SAA)
* THE SPECIAL LIBRARIES ASSOCIATION (SLA)
* THE UNITED STATES CATHOLIC CONFERENCE (USCC)
* THE UNITED STATES DISTANCE LEARNING ASSOCIATION(USDLA)
* THE VISUAL RESOURCES ASSOCIATION (VRA)
Established in 2006 with substantial funding from Google, "...Its purpose is to provide legal support to a range of projects designed to clarify, and extend, the boundaries of "fair use" in order to enhance creative freedom."
The various blogs associated with the Center also should be reviewed from time to time for news and perspective on current copyright issues.