LIBRARY GUIDE TO Copyright Resources for Faculty

Copyright Basics-

• Copyright Overview from the University Copyright Office - Purdue
• Copyright Basics - Wayne State U Libraries. 

FAQ's

• Enabling and Developing Teaching Tools - Columbia University Libraries Copyright Advisory Office
• Copyright.gov- FAQ's - United States Copyright Office
• Copyright FAQ- U Pittsburgh Libraries

Fair Use 

• Stanford's Fair Use webpage
• Copyright of Charts, Tables and Graphs
   

Alternatives to Copyright -
Creative Commons licenses are copyright licenses that creators and other rights holders can use to offer certain usage rights to the public, while reserving other right. The nonprofit Creative Commons organization works 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.

• Learn about 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.

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 Duke U (Word Doc)
   
• Copyright Clearance Center - Global rights broker for the books, journals, blogs, movies and more.  Search for and obtain permission to use and share content. 

• 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

Open Access Guide

Author's Rights for Scholars & Researchers

Code of best practices have been developed through professional consensus in each of the fields with a related code. These codes do not dictate the limits of fair use rights. Instead, they describes how those rights should apply in certain recurrent situations.  A code of best practices helps creators, online providers, copyright holders, and others interested in the making use of copyrighted content to interpret the copyright doctrine of fair use.
CODES (published by Center for Media and Social Impact - list):

• Documentary Filmmakers’ Statement of Best Practices in Fair Use (Assoc. of Independent Video and Filmmakers)
• Set of Principles in Fair Use for Journalism (Society of Professional Journalists)
• Code of Best Practices in Fair Use for Online Video -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 Poetry (The Poetry Foundation)
• Statement of Best Practices in Fair Use of Dance-Related Materials (Dance Heritage Coalition)
• Fair Use Principles for User Generated Video Content - Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) 
• Code of Best Practices in the Visual Arts -  (College Arts Assoc.)

Codes for Teaching/ Education

• Code of Best Practices in Fair Use for OpenCourseWare - AUSoC
• Society for Cinema and Media Studies’ Statement of Best Practices in Fair Use in Teaching for Film and Media Educators - AUSoC
• Code of Best Practices in Fair Use for Media Literacy Education (National Association for Media Literacy Education)
• Statement on the Fair Use of Images for Teaching, Research, and Study (Visual Resource Assoc.)
• Code of Best Practices in Fair Use for Academic and Research Libraries (Assoc. of Research Libraries )

OTHERS:
University of Maryland University College - The Educational Multimedia Guidelines

Use these tools when making a fair use evaluation.

• Fair Use Checklist (Columbia U Libraries)
• Fair Use Desicion Tree tool (Wayne State) 

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 

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

Teaching Tools Fair Use assignements, syllabus statements etc. from Center of Media and Social Impact  (CMSI)
 

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

Workshops and instructional sessions can be scheduled for your class/department or group on campus.

Topics:

• Basics of copyright
• Fair-Use
• Creative Commons licenses
• Author Rights