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Copyright and
Authors
[This article provides a (very!) brief history of copyright and its
philosophy]
http://firstmonday.org/issues/issue8_10/ewing/
Copyright Resources Online
Copyright Society of the USA (CSUSA)
[This is a nonprofit organization organized to advance the study
of copyrightlaw]
http://www.csusa.org/
Copyright Term and the Public
Domain in the US
http://www.copyright.cornell.edu/training/Hirtle_Public_Domain.htm
Copyright Workshop
http://www.cyberbee.com/copyrt.html
Copyscape
[Copyscape finds copies of your content on the Web. You can use
Copyscape to identify sites that have copied your content without
permission]
http://www.copyscape.com/
Free Expression Policy Project
[Founded in 2000, the Project has continued to provide research reports
and a host
of other valuable insights on copyright, free speech, and media
democracy issues]
http://www.fepproject.org
Primary Sources on Copyright
This is a digital archive of primary sources on copyright from the
invention of the printing press (c. 1450) to the Berne Convention
(1886) and beyond.
http://www.copyrighthistory.org/
Seeking Copyright Permissions for a Digital Age
http://www.dlib.org/dlib/february00/pritcher/02pritcher.html
Stanford Copyright & Fair Use
http://fairuse.stanford.edu/
Tales from the Public Domain
: Bound by Law ?
[Published by Duke University's Law School, "Bound by Law", is a
comic
book designed to educate people about copyright and fair use]
http://www.law.duke.edu/cspd/comics/digital.html
Ten Myths About Copyright
http://www.templetons.com/brad/copymyths.html
United States Copyright Office
http://lcweb.loc.gov/copyright/
U.S. Copyright Office-Orphan Works
[Copyrighted works whose owners are difficult or even impossible to
locate]
http://www.copyright.gov/orphan/
What is Copyright Protection?
[This page
covers the basic definitions regarding copyrights]
http://whatiscopyright.org/
Digital Millennium Copyright Act: U.S. Copyright Office Summary
http://www.loc.gov/copyright/legislation/dmca.pdf
Learning Cyberlaw in Cyberspace
http://www.cyberspacelaw.org/dogan/dogan5.html
What the Digital Millennium Copyright Act and the Copyright Term
Extension Act Mean for the Library Community
http://www.arl.org/info/frn/copy/primer.html
Copyright Piracy and H.R. 2265, The No Electronic Theft (NET) Act
http://commdocs.house.gov/committees/judiciary/hju48724.000/hju48724_0f.htm
The 'No Electronic Theft' Act
http://www.gseis.ucla.edu/iclp/hr2265.html
Center for Information Policy (CIP)-University of Maryland
http://www.cip.umd.edu
Chilling Effects Clearinghouse
[Do you know your online rights? If no, this
site is for you]
http://www.chillingeffects.org/
An Intellectual Property Law Primer For Multimedia and Web
Developers
http://www.eff.org/pub/CAF/law/multimedia-handbook
A Radical Theory of Property
http://www.templetons.com/brad/iprop.html
Intellectual Property: Database Protection and Access to
Information
http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/281/5378/786
Internet Law Library
[The Internet Law Library, authored exclusively by Martin
H. Samson features extensive summaries
of over 370 court decisions shaping the law of the web]
http://www.phillipsnizer.com/internetlib2.htm
Learning Cyberlaw In Cyberspace
[This site
provides reading materials for students studying the
law as it applies to activities in cyberspace]
http://www.cyberspacelaw.org/
Copyright Clearance Center
[Providing the most complete and convenient access to copyright
permission for millions of publications worldwide]
http://www.copyright.com/
Intellectual Property and
Traditional Knowledge
[Indigenous and local communities cherish traditional knowledge
(TK) as apart of their cultural identities.
The work of the WIPO Intergovernmental committee on intellectual
property and genetic resources, traditional
knowledge and folklore ("IGC") ranges from the international dimension
of TKand c
ooperation with other international agencies, to capacity building and
the pooling of practical experience in this complex area. This booklet
gives
an overview of this work, discusses some key concepts and describes
various
national approaches to protecting TK against misuse or
misappropriation.]
http://www.wipo.int/export/sites/www/freepublications/en/tk/920/wipo_pub_920.pdf
IP Frontline: your
intellectual property news
[is a free service open to both registered and anonymous users for
their research and postings on IP related issues]
http://www.ip.com/ipFrontline/
The Intellectual Property and
Technology Forum-Boston College Law School
http://www.bc.edu/bc_org/avp/law/st_org/iptf/
American Physical Society's Guidelines for Professional Conduct
http://ei.cs.vt.edu/~cs3604/lib/WorldCodes/APS.html
Ethical Guidelines of the American Mathematical Society
http://www.ams.org/secretary/ethics.html
Ethical Issues in Physics Workshop Proceedings
http://www.physics.emich.edu/mthomsen/ethtaboc.htm
On Being A Scientist: Responsible Conduct In Research
http://books.nap.edu/html/obas/
Fair Use: Overview and Meaning for Higher Education
http://www.cetus.org/fair5.html
TEACH Act Toolkit-Online Resource
for Understanding Copyright and Distance Education
http://www.lib.ncsu.edu/scc/legislative/teachkit/
Regents Guide to Understanding Copyright and Educational Fair Use
[The guide provides illustrative examples of Fair Use and the legal
background of copyright law]
http://www.peachnet.edu/admin/legal/copyright/copy.html
A Visit to Copyright Bay
[Is intended
only to
inform and entertain educators about copyright issues in a non-profit
setting]
http://www.stfrancis.edu/cid/copyrightbay/
Making a video and hoping not to get sued?
Check out American University's Center for Social Media
Code
of
Best
Practices
in
Fair
Use
for Online Video
When Copying is 'OK'- The Fair Use Rule
http://www.nolo.com/encyclopedia/articles/pct/nn75.html
Avoiding Plagiarism: Mastering the Art of Scholarship
http://sja.ucdavis.edu/sja/plagiarism.html
Cut and Paste Plagiarism: Preventing, Detecting and Tracking
Online Plagiarism
http://alexia.lis.uiuc.edu/~janicke/plagiary.htm
How to Recognize Plagiarism
[School of Education-Indiana University]
http://www.indiana.edu/~istd/plagiarism_test.html
Plagiarism.org
[The online resource for people concerned with
the growing problem of Internet plagiarism]
http://plagiarism.org/
Plagiarism and Anti plagiarism
http://newark.rutgers.edu/~ehrlich/plagiarism598.html
Plagiarism Theme Page
[This "Theme Page" has links to information about Plagiarism]
http://www.cln.org/themes/plagiarism.html
Plagiarism: What It is and How to Recognize It and Avoid It
http://www.indiana.edu/~wts/pamphlets.shtml
Citation Styles Online
http://www.bedfordstmartins.com/online/citex.html
Citing Electronic Sources in Research Papers and Bibliographies
http://www.library.wisc.edu/libraries/Memorial/citing.htm
Copying Images, JPEGs, GIFs or BMPs
[This page outlines some legal traps involving copyright notice,
modifying & displaying images, public domain images, and fair use]
http://www.pdimages.com/law/03.html-ssi
Finding Images on the Internet
http://www.philb.com/findimages.htm
The Photographer's Rights
http://www.krages.com/ThePhotographersRight.pdf