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In an age of connected learning, navigating the copyright landscape can be challenging. The following resources may help you as you attempt to answer key copyright questions about content use, re-use, distribution, creation, and more.
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- EDUCAUSE Policy Topic: Intellectual Property
Looking to find out more about copyright, Fair Use, DMCA, and other legislation in this area? This page from the EDUCAUSE Policy office provides a useful overview of IP issues facing higher education. - EDUCAUSE Library: Copyright and IP Policies
Find model campus policies in the EDUCAUSE Library. - Copyright Timeline: A History of Copyright in the United States
This timeline from the Association of Research Libraries is a comprehensive look at the legal evolution of copyright law in the United States. - Copyright Crash Course
From the University of Texas Libraries, this online interactive guide points to copyright’s role in the flow of research and teaching, and helps users understand ownership, management, and sharing of copyrights. - Know Your Copyrights
An online guide from ARL that “looks at copyright from the perspectives of all key academic stakeholders and suggests what each group can do to enhance their copyright practices and advance academic interests. - American University Center for Social Media: Codes of Best Practices in Fair Use
This site features a number of resources related to fair use, including teaching materials, codes of best practices, and other documents. Topics include OpenCourseWare, online video, academic and research libraries, and more. - Orphan Works and Mass Digitization
This Library of Congress site is a review of “the problem of orphan works under U.S. copyright law” and includes links to pertinent works. - ARL Copyright and Intellectual Property
This website provides helpful resources related to Fair Use, author rights, legislation, and international copyright and IP.
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- Copyright Act of 1976
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- DMCA FAQ(from the EDUCAUSE Campus Policy Working Group)
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- The TEACH Act amended the Copyright Act; see SEC. 13301. EDUCATIONAL USE COPYRIGHT EXEMPTION for that section of the law.
- See also the ALA website, Distance Education and the TEACH Act, for more information.
- Higher Education Opportunity Act (HEOA)
- Authors Guild, Inc., et al. v. HathiTrust et al.
- HathiTrust Copyright Case: Resources (EDUCAUSE)
- Georgia State Copyright Case: Resources(EDUCAUSE)
EDUCAUSE created a page that provides resources related to the Georgia State copyright case (Cambridge University Press et al. v. Patton et al.). This lawsuit brought by several publishers against Georgia State University involves the use of copyrighted materials in e-reserves in higher education, but the impact of the case and its potential results may be far more reaching. - UCLA Streaming Video Lawsuit
Library Items on this Topic
EDUCAUSE Library Items for Copyright
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To Maus or Not to Maus: Technically, That Is the Question
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May 6, 2013
Key Takeaways What should a Maus book owner do when he can't access the multiple copies he owns on all his various devices, including the newest, an iPad ? In …
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MOOCs and Intellectual Property: Ownership and Use Rights
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April 8, 2013
Massively Open Online Courses (MOOCs) have become the buzzword these days. Besides the interest and the hype associated with MOOCs, campuses are having serious discussions about the opportuniti…
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We Love E-Books!
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April 1, 2013
Carrie Rampp is Director of Library Services and Instructional Technology at Bucknell University, Lewisburg, Pennsylvania. True confession: I really love e-books. They are so conven…
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The Copyright Conundrum
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November 1, 2012
Joan Cheverie is a Policy Specialist for the EDUCAUSE Washington Office. "May you live in interesting times"—a saying of perhaps dubious origins—is alternately viewed …
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Fair Use in Academic and Research Libraries
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March 21, 2012
Patricia Aufderheide is University Professor and the founder-director of the Center for Social Media in the School of Communication at American University in Washington, D.C. She is the …
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The Orphan Wars
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January 23, 2012
James Grimmelmann ( james.grimmelmann@nyls.edu ) is Associate Professor at New York Law School. “Orphan books”—books that are in copyright but whose copyright owners can…
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Tracking Policy Cycles
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April 15, 2010
© 2010 G. A. Jackson. The text of this article is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 License ( http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/ )…
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Getting Our Values around Copyright Right
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April 15, 2010
© 2010 Lawrence Lessig. The text of this article is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License ( http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ ). EDUCAUSE Review, vol. 45…
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On Ensuring That Intellectual Property Public Policy Promotes Progress
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January 16, 2009
© 2009 Peter McPherson EDUCAUSE Review, vol. 44, no. 1 (January/February 2009): 4–5. On Ensuring That Intellectual Property Public Policy Promotes Progress By Peter Mc…
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Illegal File Sharing 101
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November 17, 2008
© 2008 Kent Wada. The text of this article is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 license ( http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/ ). …
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