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Copyright

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Stanford

• Stanford Copyright Reminder
• Copyright and Fair Use
• Office of the General Counsel: Intellectual Property
• Chilling Effects Clearinghouse

News

• ©ollectanea! (blog portal from Univ. Maryland)
• Electronic Frontier Foundation: News
• GigaLaw.com DailyNews (Gigalaw: Legal Information for Internet Professionals)
• IP Insider (Law.com)
• Law.com (searchable news)
• New/Pending Legislation (U.S. Copyright Office)
• NewsNet (U.S. Copyright Office)
• The New York Times: Technology Section (free; requires registration)
• The Washington Post: Technology Section
• World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO): News and Information Resources

Key Resources

• ACS Copyright Information
• ACS Learning Module: What Chemists Need to Know About Copyright
• ACS Style Guide, 2nd ed.; Dodd, J.S., Ed.; Am. Chem. Soc. Washington, DC, 1997. Incl. chapter on copyright.
• AIChE Copyright Statement
• Copyright Clearance center
• U.S. Copyright Office | Circular 21: Reproduction of Copyrighted works by Educators and Librarians (pdf) | Frequently Asked Questions

Education Materials

• ACS Learning Module: What Chemists Need to Know About Copyright
• FindLaw: Copyright
• Copyright: An Overview (Cornell Law School)
• Copyright Basics (pdf) (U. S. Copyright Office)
• Copyright Crash Course (University of Texas Libraries)
• How to Investigate the Copyright Status of a Work — Circular 22 (pdf) (U.S. Copyright Office)
• New Media, New Rights, and Your New Dissertation (Kenneth D. Crews, ProQuest: UMI)
• 10 Big Myths About Copyright Explained (Brad Templeton, e-newspaper publisher)
• Timeline: A History of Copyright Law in the U.S. (Association of Research Libraries)

Guidelines, Opinions, and Procedures

• CONTU (National Commission on New Technological Uses of Copyright Works)
• Copyright Registration for Multimedia Works (PDF Document)
• Copyright Registration Procedures (U.S. Copyright Office)
• Educational Fair Use Guidelines for Distance Learning (University of Texas)
• Fair Use Guidelines for Electronic Reserve Systems (University of Texas)
• Guidelines for Classroom Copying of Books and Journals (University of Texas)
• Guidelines for Off-Air Taping for Educational Purposes (Univ. California-Berkeley Libraries)
• How to Investigate the Copyright Status of a Work — Circular 22 (pdf) (U.S. Copyright Office)
• Linking and Liability (BitLaw)
• New Media, New Rights, and Your New Dissertation (Kenneth D. Crews, ProQuest: UMI)
• Off-Air Recordings for Educational Purposes
• A Proposal for Educational Fair Use Guidelines for Digital Images (University of Texas)
• U.S. Copyright Office Forms
• Using Software A Guide to the Ethical and Legal Use of Software for Members of the Academic Community (EDUCOM)
• Web Site Legal Issues
• When Works Pass Into the Public Domain (Chart prepared by Lolly Gasaway, UNC Task Force on Intellectual Property)

Laws, Treaties, and Acts

• New/Pending Legislation (U.S. Copyright Office)
• Timeline: A History of Copyright Law in the U.S. (Association of Research Libraries)
• Berne Convention for the Protection of Literary and Artistic Works (Paris Text 1971)
• Copyright Law in the United States (BitLaw)
• Copyright Law of the United States of America
• Digital Millenium Copyright Act
• European Copyright Directive
• Federal Register: Text of Digital Copyright Ruling
• No Electronic Theft (Net) Act (Amends Title 17 Section 101 of the U.S. Code)
• Patent Cooperation Treaty (1970)
• Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act (PDF)
• Title 17 of the U.S. Code, Copyrights (searchable) (Incl. Section 107 on Fair Use and Section 108 on Library Copying)
• Uniform Computer Information Transactions Act (UCITA)
• Universal Copyright Convention (1971)
• WIPO Copyright Treaties (World Intellectual Property Organization)

Organizations

• AFFECT — Americans for Fair Electronic Commerce Transactions
• Association of American Publishers
• Coalition for Networked Information Copyright Mailing List Archive (CNI-Copyright)
• Consortium for Educational Technology in University Systems
• Digital Future Coalition
• Electronic Frontier Foundation
• FA©E (Friends of Active Copyright Education)
• The Institute for Learning Technologies
• Intellectual Property Owners (IPO)
• International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA)
• International Federation of Reproduction Rights Organisations (IFRRO)
• International Intellectual Property Alliance
• The National Federation of Abstracting and Information Services
• U.S. Copyright Office
• U.S. Patent and Trademark Office
• WIPO (World Intellectual Property Office)

Sites and Guides

• Access — Intellectual Property Law Server
• Author Rights (Association of Research Libraries)
• Chilling Effects Clearinghouse
• Compleat World Copyright Website (Compiler Press)
• Copyright Law (www.nolo.com)
• Copyright and Fair Use (Stanford University Libraries)
• Copyright at the University of Michigan (University of Michigan Library)
• Copyright, Intellectual Property Rights, and Licensing Issues (Univ. California-Berkeley)
• Copyright Resources Online (Ann Okerson, Yale University Library)
• The Copyright Web Site (Benedict O’Mahoney, Attorney)
• Copyright Web Sites (Special Libraries Association)
• CyberSpace Law for Non-Lawyers (Social Science Research Network)
• Digital Object Identifier System
• The Fair Use Network (Brennan Center for Justice, NYU School of Law)
• GigaLaw: Legal Information for Internet Professionals
• IP Mall (University of New Hampshire School of Law)