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Posted by permission from Mary Ann Farris, this page is a very interesting overview of liability, damages, attorney fees and other remedies regarding infringement. So far in all lthe pages I've seen in the past nine years this is the only one that provides the information so concisely.
LorreBob sez: check it out
http://publishing.wsu.edu/copyright/how%5Fcopyright%5Fprotects/
From their home page:
"The Library Copyright Alliance (LCA) consists of five major library associations - the American Association of Law Libraries, the American Library Association, the Association of Research Libraries, the Medical Library Association, and the Special Libraries Association. These five associations collectively represent over 80,000 information professionals and thousands of libraries of all kinds throughout the United States. These five associations cooperate in the LCA to address copyright issues that affect libraries and their patrons. For over ten years now, our five library associations have worked together in as a coalition.
The purpose of the LCA is to work toward a unified voice and common strategy for the library community in responding to and developing proposals to amend national and international copyright law and policy for the digital environment. The LCA's mission is to foster global access and fair use of information for creativity, research, and education."
"This Statement of Best Practices in Fair Use makes clear what documentary fi lmmakers currently regard as reasonable application of the copyright “fair use” doctrine. Fair use expresses the core value of free expression within copyright law. The statement clarifies this crucial legal doctrine, to help filmmakers use it with confidence."
http://centerforsocialmedia.org/rock/backgrounddocs/bestpractices.pdf
"AAP PR Campaign against Open Access and Public Access to Federally Funded Research" is an undated brief, produced in early 2007. It provides talking points for campus discussions of scholarly communication, open access and public access to federally funded research.
BASE - Bielefeld Academic Search Engine
On today's version of the page they describe themselves as having: 5,316,448 Pages of 400 Content Providers
From their "about" page:
In comparison to commercial search engines, BASE is distinguished for the following features:
* Intellectually selected resources
* Only document servers that comply with the specific requirements of scientific quality and relevance are included
* A data resources inventory provides transparency in the searches
* Searches full text plus meta data (depending on the resource)
* Discloses web resources of the "Deep Web", which are ignored by commercial search engines or get lost in the vast quantity of hits.
* The display of search results includes precise bibliographic data (if provided in the resource)
* Several options for sorting the result list
* "Refine your search result" options (authors, resources, document type, language etc.)
Try it - you might like it!
http://www.base-search.net/index.php?i=b&l=en
What Artists Need to Know About Copyright & Trademarks
For filmmakers, visual artists, and writers
Edited by
David Bollier, Gigi Bradford,
Laurie Racine and Gigi B. Sohn
From 2005, this 116 page monograph describes itself thuswise: "...It is designed to give readers an understanding of the historic balance between copyright and the public domain as it was written into the U. S. Constitution; how copyright and trademark laws have evolved over time; what they are intended to accomplish; and how you can make sure you understand, benefit from, and follow them. This book is not a how-to or a practical compendium, but rather
a clear explanation of a topic that can appear so complex that those who need to know about it often avoid the topic altogether."
I've been doing presentations and this is my handout of a list of links for a basic introduction to copyright.
General resources
Intellectual Property and Copyright Resources
http://library.albany.edu/divs/digital/copyright.html
American Library Association Washington Office
http://www.ala.org/ala/washoff/WOissues/copyrightb/copyright.htm
Copyright Management Center
http://copyright.iupui.edu/
Cornell Law School
http://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/index.php/Copyright
North Carolina State
http://www.lib.ncsu.edu/scc/main.html
University of Texas - Crash Course
http://www.utsystem.edu/ogc/IntellectualProperty/cprtindx.htm
University of Maryland Center for Intellectual Property
http://www.umuc.edu/distance/odell/cip/cip.shtml
Copyright law
Subject matter and scope – copyright law
http://www.copyright.gov/title17/92chap1.html#102
Exclusive rights – copyright law
http://www.copyright.gov/title17/92chap1.html#106
Fair Use
http://www.copyright.gov/title17/92chap1.html#107
Library Copying
http://www.copyright.gov/title17/92chap1.html#108
Copyright guidelines
http://www.copyright.iupui.edu/fu_overview.htm
Document Delivery policies- UMinn example
http://www.lib.umn.edu/copyright/intdocdel-std.pdf
International copyright
WIPO treaty
http://www.wipo.int/treaties/en/ip/wct/trtdocs_wo033.html
The Public Domain
When Works Pass Into the Public Domain
http://www.unc.edu/~unclng/public-d.htm
Copyright term and the public domain in the U.S.
http://www.copyright.cornell.edu/training/Hirtle_Public_Domain.htm
How to Investigate the Copyright Status of a Work
http://www.copyright.gov/circs/circ22.pdf
Getting Permission
Securing Permission – IUPUI
http://www.copyright.iupui.edu/permsec.htm
NC State Permissions Guide
http://www.lib.ncsu.edu/scc/misc/contents.html
Permission Letter
http://www.lib.ncsu.edu/scc/forms/duplicate.html
The Watch File
http://tyler.hrc.utexas.edu/
Orphan Works
Orphan Works
http://www.law.duke.edu/cspd/orphanworks.html
Author rights
Creative Commons
http://creativecommons.org/license/
This site gives a very good overview of issues of interest to those who use and perform music:
Playing Music for Personal Enjoyment
Playing Music in Public
Music in Education
Music Composition
Music Plagiarism and Fair Use
Music Sampling
Music that Can be Used in Education Without Permission or License
And it also gives a list of resources regarding music and copyright.