What about the U. S. Copyright Law?

The library staff monitors compliance with the U. S. Copyright Law. If we determine that posting a reading exceeds the guidelines for fair use, the library will attempt to obtain permission from the copyright holder (usually the publisher) to use an article. Currently, the library is paying any royalties charged. We reserve the right to refuse exorbitant charges. We use the Copyright Clearance Center and direct contact to publishers to obtain these permissions. Examples of cases in which fair use is exceeded are:

Using an article for more than one term. The first use is considered in fair use. For subsequent semesters, permission must be obtained.Using more than one article from a single issue of a journal

Using more than one chapter (or a "substantial" portion) of a book

REGULATORY AGENCIES:

U.S. Copyright Office.
http://lcweb.loc.gov/copyright

World Trade Organization Intellectual Property Gateway.
http://www.wto.org/english/tratop_e/trips_e/trips_e.htm

World Intellectual Property Organization.
http://www.wipo.org/

TUTORIALS & GENERAL INFORMATION:

North Carolina State University. Scholarly Communication Center.http://www.lib.ncsu.edu/scc/

Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis. Copyright Management Center. http://copyright.iupui.edu

University of California, Los Angeles. Bruin Success with Less Stress.
http://www.library.ucla.edu/bruinsuccess/

University of Texas. Copyright Crash Course. http://www.utsystem.edu/ogc/intellectualproperty/cprtindx.htm

University of Maryland. University College Center for Intellectual Property.
http://www.umuc.edu/distance/odell/cip/

American Library Association. Washington Office; Copyright. http://www.ala.org/washoff/copyright.html

Association of Research Libraries. Copyright and Intellectual Property Table of Contents. http://www.arl.org/info/frn/copy/copytoc.html

Council on Library and Information Resources. Copyright Issues Relevant to the Creation of a Digital Archive: A Preliminary Assessment. http://www.clir.org/pubs/abstract/pub112abst.html

FindLaw: Intellectual Property Law: Copyright. http://findlaw.com/01topics/23intellectprop/01copyright/

Templeton, Brad.10 Big Myths about Copyright Explained.
http://www.templetons.com/brad/copymyths.html

Visual Resources Association.Image Collection Guidelines:The Acquisition and Use of Images in Non-Profit
Educational Visual Resources Collections. http://www.vraweb.org/copyright/guidelines2.html

DURATION OF COPYRIGHT:

Cornell Copyright Information Center. "Copyright Term and the Public Domain in the United States."
http://www.copyright.cornell.edu/training/Hirtle_Public_Domain.htm

Gassaway, Lolly."When Works Pass Into the Public Domain." http://www.unc.edu/~unclng/public-d.htm

Copyright Renewals Database. Stanford University developed this database showing books published between 1923-1963 to help determing the copyright status of U. S. published works. http://collections.stanford.edu/copyrightrenewals/

FAIR USE (General):

Consortium for Educational Technology in University Systems (CETUS). "Fair Use of Copyrighted Works: A Crucial Element in Educating America."http://www.cetus.org/fairindex.html

Stanford University Libraries.Copyright & Fair Use.http://fairuse.stanford.edu/
Protect Fair Use.org http://www.protectfairuse.org/index.html

PERMISSIONS:

Copyright Clearance Center. http://www.copyright.com/CCC serves as a permissions agent for hundreds of book and periodical publishers.

AcqWeb's Directory of Publishers and Vendors. http://acqweb.library.vanderbilt.edu/acqweb/pubr.html This site provides contact information for book publishers.

Serials Directory.This database, accessible through EbscoHost, provides contact information for periodical publishers.

RELATED ISSUES:

ELECTRONIC PUBLISHING:
Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography, by Charles W. Bailey, Jr. http://info.lib.uh.edu/sepb/sepb.html

ELECTRONIC RESERVE:
Rosedale, Jeff."Electronic Reserves Clearinghouse: Links and Materials on the Web."
http://www.cc.columbia.edu/~rosedale/

OPEN ACCESS JOURNAL MOVEMENT:

SPARC: http://www.arl.org/sparc

Directory of Open Access Journals:http://www.doaj.org

Last Update: July 23,2007

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