Resources for Librarians
Copyright Issues

• 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 Multimedia Law for Webbuilders & Multimedia Authors - from U. of Texas
• Copyright, Intellectual Property Rights, and Licensing Issues
• Copyright Renewal Database -- Stanford University Libraries have helped solve the vexing problem of whether an older work is protected by copyright under US law by creating a searchable database of copyright renewal records received by the US Copyright Office between 1950 and 1993 for books published in the US between 1923 and 1963.
• Eldred v. Ashcroft -- a central repository of documents regarding the case challenging the constitutionality of the Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act
• Electronic Copies
• Family Entertainment and Copyright Act of 2005 -- Type into the search box S. 167 then hit the Enter Bill Number bullet. It is full-text.
• How To Lessen the Chance of Plagiarizing
• Law about Copyright: An Overview -- from the Legal Information Institute at Cornell Law School.
• Senate Judiciary Committee -- Competition, Innovation, and Public Policy in the Digital Age: Is the Marketplace Working to Protect Digital Creative Works?
• United States Copyright Office