Copyright & Publishing: Copyright

Copyright Law - Courses & Presentations

Copyright for Educations and Librarians (MOOC)
A Coursera MOOC taught by Kevin Smith, Lisa Macklin, and Anne Gilliland providing an overview of U.S. copyright and various rights and exceptions.
Copyright Crash Course (Univ. of Texas LibGuide)
New version of the fantastic guide to copyright created by Georgia Harper. Covers copyright basics, fair use, TEACH Act, and more.
CopyrightX (Harvard MOOC)
12 week free MOOC on copyright law offered through Harvard Law School.
Copyright in Higher Education Elements Resources (CHEER)
This repository, hosted by Clemson University, provides the building blocks that anyone can use to develop copyright education and awareness programming at their institution. Elements range from images and text to full presentations. Licensed for re-use, you can customize elements to best fit the copyright needs of your situation and audience.
Copyright in the Classroom
From the Ohio State University Copyright Resource Center a series of podcast lectures on copyright law.
CopyTalk Webinars
Series of webinars on a variety of copyright topics presented by the American Library Association Office of Information Technology Policy.

Copyright Term and the Public Domain in the United States Public domain chart created and maintained by Cornell University
State Copyright Resource Center A guide, developed at Harvard, to determining the copyright status of state government works.
Is it in the Public Domain? A handbook for evaluating the public domain status of works created in the United States. Produced by the Samuelson Law, Technology and Public Policy Clinic at Berkeley Law School
Finding the Public Domain: Copyright Review Management System Toolkit Toolkit for libraries, developed by the University of Michigan team who designed the Copyright Review Management System, to assist in developing a workflow for making copyright status determinations of books.
Tales from the Public Domain A comic, developed by Duke University's Center for the Public Domain, that explains not only the public domain but also fair use.
Public Domain Sherpa A general resource with information about public domain in the United states with guides to locating books, photos, movies, and other media in the public domain.
Stanford Copyright Renewal Database Searchable database of copyright renewal records received by the U.S. Copyright Office between 1950 and 1992 for books published in the U.S. between 1923 and 1963.
Out of Copyright A calculator for determining the copyright status of works created in select countries

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Copyright Act of 1976 Full text of the Copyright Act, enacted in 1976, which is the primary copyright law in the United States.
Copyright Advisory Network A forum for asking questions about copyright issues in libraries, as well as several online tools for evaluating copyright status of works.
Copyright Navigator A digital annotated concept map of the fundamentals of U.S. Copyright Law
Copyright Slider Digital tool for determining whether a work first created or published in the United States is still protected by copyright and permission needed for reuse.
ARL Copyright Timeline A history of copyright legislation and judicial decisions in the United States
IP Policies for Universities and Institutions (WIPO) Searchable database of policies, manuals and model agreements from universities and institutions around the world.

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