Faculty Resources
Copyright Issues

• About Copyright -- a nice set of links that are geared for professors.
• Copyright -- what and how copyright does and does not protect, fair use and more... Excellent and clearly written from Washington State U.
• Copyright and Fair Use--from the Council on Library Resources, includes relevant statutes, judicial opinions, regulations, treaties, library guidelines, articles on fair use
• Copyright and Fair Use: The Present and Future Perspective -- a keynote address by Representative Rick Boucher before the Harvard Journal of Law and Technology Symposium
• Copyright Law: An Overview
• Copyright Law in the Electronic Environment  -- from the U of Texas System, a good overview.
• Fair Use: Reserve Room and Electronic Copies/Reserves -- Guidelines for fair use in the electronic environment.
• Fair Use Illustrative Scenarios
• Free Culture: How Big Media Uses Technology and the Law to Lock Down Culture and Control Creativity -- a free full-text book by Lawrence Lessing. Book is in .pdf format.
• Intellectual Property
• Senate Judiciary Committee -- Protecting Creative works in a Digital Age. With links to related laws. 
• The “Technology, Education and Copyright Harmonization Act” (the TEACH Act). New copyright Law in distance education. 
• US Copyright Office
• What is Fair Use? -- articles, some dealing with Internet resources.