Copyright Information

useful plain language explanations from Brad Templeton, an Electronic Frontier Foundation board member

Duke Univ. graphic novel explanation of copyright and fair use, especially pertaining to media

Companion website for a PBS film on the creative and legal issues surrounding sampling sounds and recordings.

report from the National Academies

from the U.S. Copyright Office

from Stanford's Copyright and Fair Use website

paper in the Electronic Journal of Academic and Special Librarianship

a clever video outlining fair use principles

1998 report of the U.S. Copyright Office

a 2001 draft report from MIT comparing the policies of the Univ. of Chicago, Columbia, Duke, Harvard and Stanford

insightful article by Janis Ian

explanatory paper from the American Library Association

digital archive from Arts & Humanities Research Council in the UK

"Not everything is 'fair use' in copying all or part of protected works," 2003 Pittsburgh Post-Gazette article

1999 U.S. Copyright Office report

essay and cautionary fable by Richard Stallman

Electronic Frontier Foundation white paper

Movie Licensing USA provides information regarding the public showing of films

National Center for Academic Transformation resource, including sample cases

Journal of Electronic Publishing review article edited by Lorrie Lejeune

legislative histories, treatises, documents, and more relating to copyrights, patents, and trademark