Copyright Resources On The Web

Advisory Sites

• Agreement on Guidelines for Classroom Copying in Not-for-Profit Educational Institutions With Respect To Books and Periodicals (Coalition for Networked Information)
• Best Practices (American University Center for Social Media)
• Copyright & Intellectual Property Policies (Association of Research Libraries)
• Copyright for Music Librarians (Music Library Association)  
• Copyright Issues and Advocacy (American Library Association)
• Copyrights and Wrongs (American Association of University Professors)
• Model Policy Concerning College and University Photocopying for Classroom, Research and Library Reserve (Coalition for Networked Information)
• Music Production Schools 
• Primer on the Digital Millennium (Association of Research Libraries)
• Video and Copyright (American Library Association)

Compliance tools (American Library Association)

• Exceptions for an Instructor (A tool leading instructors through a series of questions regarding their intended use of materials for display or performance and assessing its fair use. Instructors may then print a time-stamped PDF document indicating their good faith effort to comply.)
• Fair Use Evaluator (A tool leading instructors through a series of questions where they rate their perception of fairness on a sliding scale. The tool provides an average rating of your own evaluations four factors. It does not mean that your intended use is actually "fair". The tool can also provide a time-stamped PDF document showing the results.)
• Public Domain Slider (a tool showing a work's copyright status by its original date of publication)
• Section 108 Spinner (a tool showing what materials a library or archives may legitimately copy for their users, for replacement, or for preservation)

Legal sites

• United States Copyright Office
• Copyright Law of the United States of America Title 17 of the United State Code, Revised to April 2000: http://www.loc.gov/copyright/title17

Other institutional sites

• Cornell University: Copyright Term and the Public Domain in the United States
• Stanford University: Copyright and Fair Use
• University of Minnesota: A Map of Use Issues
• University of Texas: Copyright Crash Course