Copyright Basics-
FAQ's
Fair Use
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."
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.
- Copyright Overview from the University Copyright Office - Purdue
- Copyright Basics - Wayne State U Libraries.
- Campus Copyright Rights and Responsbilities - ACRL (PDF)
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
- Center for Social Media - Fair Use Information
- Stanford's Copyright & Fair Use webpage
- Copyright of Charts, Tables and Graphs
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."
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 Practice codes
- 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.)
- 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 )
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)
Copyright Clearance Center - global rights broker for the books, journals, blogs, movies and more.
Steps for requestion permission - Stanford U
Sample permission Letter (Word Doc)
Copyright Clearance Center - global rights broker for the books, journals, blogs, movies and more.
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 Education Lab teaching tools - videos, readings, activities
Teaching Tools Fair Use assignements, syllabus statements etc. from Center of Media and Social Impact (CMSI)
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.
Great video about Fair Use and Best Practice Guidelines.
Julia Rodriguez
Associate Professor / Nursing, Health Sciences & Scholarly Communications Librarian
juliar@oakland.edu
Schedule a research consultation (Fall & Winter only)
- 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
Use these tools when making a fair use evaluation.
Public Domain Slider
Fair Use Evaluator
Exceptions for Instructors eTool
- Fair Use Checklist (Columbia U Libraries)
- Fair Use Desicion Tree tool (Wayne State)
Public Domain Slider
Fair Use Evaluator
Exceptions for Instructors eTool
Tools courtesy of the Copyright Advisory Subcommittee of the ALA Office for Information Technology Policy