Copyright Basics-

• Columbia University Libraries (Copyright basics from the Copyright Advisory Office)
• Purdue (Copyright Overview from the University Copyright Office)
• Campus Copyright Rights and Responsbilities - ACRL (PDF)

Fair Use -

• Center for Social Media - Fair Use Information
  
• Stanford's Copyright & Fair Use webpage
   

Alternatives to Copyright -
Creative Commons is a nonprofit organization working to increase the amount of creativity (cultural, educational, and scientific content) in “the commons” — the body of work that is available to the public for free and legal sharing, use, repurposing, and remixing.

View CC descriptive video "Get Creative" about the concept of "creative commons."

• Creative Commons licenses
• Creative Commons license for Education

Copyleft - GNU license information
Copyleft is a general method for making a program (or other work) free, and requiring all modified and extended versions of the program to be free as well.

Center for Social Media  - Best Practices

• Code of Best Practices in Fair Use for Online Video -AUSoC (PDF)
• Code of Best Practices in Fair Use for Media Literacy Education - AUSoC
• Society for Cinema and Media Studies' Statement of Fair Use Best Practices for Media Studies Publishing - AUSoC
• Code of Best Practices in Fair Use for Scholarly Research in Communication - AUSoC
• Code of Best Practices in Fair Use for OpenCourseWare - AUSoC

Fair Use Principles for User Generated Video Content - Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF)

Code of Best Practices in Fair Use for Media Literacy Education (PDF)

University of Maryland University College - The Educational Multimedia Guidelines

If you plan to use copyrighted work in a publication you may need/ or wish to request permission from the copyright owner.

Steps for requestion permission - Stanford U
Sample permission Letter (Word Doc)

EFF's Teaching Copyright curriculum created to help teachers present the laws surrounding digital rights in a balanced way.

Media Education Lab teaching tools - videos, readings, activities

Welcome to Copyright Advisory Network. The purpose of this site is to encourage librarians to discuss copyright concerns and seek feedback and advice from fellow librarians and copyright specialists. The Network is sponsored by the American Library Association

Media Literacy 2.x: Employing Fair Use Educationally in a Remix Era -
Great video about Fair Use and Best Practice Guidelines.

• Hints for Sharing and Downloading Music and Movies - UTS
• OU Data security policy (PDF doc)
• OU Intellectual Property Rights policy - Section 93 of AAUP contract

Fair Use Checklist (Cornell)


Public Domain Slider

Section 108 Spinner

Fair Use Evaluator



  Exceptions for Instructors eTool

Tools courtesy of the Copyright Advisory Subcommittee of the ALA Office for Information Technology Policy 

Open Access / Open Education Guide

Author's Rights