Copyright Information 

IPFW, IU, and Purdue Statements on Copyright

• Indiana University Policies
• Purdue University Policy
• see also Purdue's University Copyright Office

General Introduction to Copyright

• Copyright Basics from the U.S. Copyright Office
• Copyright FAQ
• When Works pass into the Public Domain by Lolly Gawaway

Copyright for Authors

Statement on Publication Agreements (Committee on Institutional Cooperation (CIC))

The CIC, a consortium of 12 research institutions, including IU and Purdue, endorses the use of contract language that ensures that academic authors retain certain rights that facilitate archiving, instructional use, and sharing with colleagues to advance discourse and discovery.

Addendum to Publication Agreements for CIC Authors

A model CIC publishing addendum that affirms the rights of authors to share their work in a variety of circumstances, including posting versions of the work in institutional or disciplinary repositories.

SHERPA/RoMEO Directory of publisher's policies on allowing authors to make their research available online.

Copyright Laws and Legislation

• Title 17 - Copyrights
• 17 USC sec. 106 - Exclusive Rights in Copyrighted Works
• 17 USC sec. 107 - Limitations on exclusive rights: Fair Use
• 17 USC sec. 108 - Limitations on exclusive rights: Reproduction by Libraries and Archives
• 17 USC sec. 110 - Limitations on exclusive rights: Exemption of Certain Performances and Displays
• 17 USC sec. 504 - Remedies for Infringement: Damages and Profits
• Digital Millennium Copyright Act of 1998
• TEACH Act (Public Law 107-273, subsection 13301)

Copyright Guidelines

• Agreement on Guidelines for Classroom Copying in Not-For-Profit Educational Institutions with Respect to Books and Periodicals, 1976
• ALA Model Policy Concerning College and University Photocopying for Classroom, Research and Library Reserve Use, March 1982.
• Guidelines For Educational Uses of Music, 1976
• Guidelines for Off-Air Recordings of Broadcast Programming for Educational Purposes
• CONTU guidelines on photocopying and interlibrary arrangements, 1976
• A Proposal For Educational Fair Use Guidelines For Digital Images, 1996
• Fair Use Guidelines For Educational Multimedia, 1996
• Fair Use Guidelines for Electronic Reserve Systems, 1996

Copyright News

• Speeches & testimony of the Register of Copyright
• U.S. Copyright Office Online NewsNet

Copyright Permissions

• Copyright Clearance Center (CCC)
  The Copyright Clearance Center, a not-for-profit organization providing collective copyright licensing services, maintains a WWW server with information on licensing services offered to its clients.
• Copyright Renewal Database (Stanford University)
  The period from 1923-1963 is of special interest for US copyrights, because between those dates, a renewal registration was required to prevent the expiration of copyright. This database makes searchable the copyright renewal records received by the US Copyright Office between 1950 and 1993 for books published in the US between 1923 and 1963. This database makes it easier to determine, efficiently and with some certainty, whether a work is still under copyright or now within the public domain.
• Getting Permission (University of Texas) provides suggestions for locating copyright owners for images, freelance writers, music performances, plays, news, movies, and other published works.
• IPFW Media Waiver Form (PDF) - Permission to create images which may be used in the presentation of live and/or recorded media including print, broadcast, multimedia, Internet, and/or any other form of publication or recording by Indiana University-Purdue University Fort Wayne.
• ReservesEXpress Copyright FAQ includes IPFW information on determining the copyright owner, obtaining permission, and permission requirements for electronic reserves.
• Sample Letter Requesting Permission (University of Texas) provides a template letter that can be adapted to a variety of permission requests.
• The WorldCat Copyright Evidence Registry (CER) is a community of people, libraries, and other organizations working together to discover and share information about the copyright status of books. The Copyright Evidence Registry is based on WorldCat, which contains more than 100 million bibliographic records describing items held in thousands of libraries worldwide. In addition to the WorldCat metadata, the Copyright Evidence Registry uses data contributed by libraries and other organizations. You can search the Copyright Evidence Registry to find information about a book, learn what others have said about its copyright status, and share what you know.  Evidence Registry uses the WorldCat database of more than 100 million bibliographic records and information that libraries and other organizations have discovered about the copyright status of specific works. The Copyright Evidence Registry does not provide conclusions or assertions about the copyright status of a book. Instead, it provides the information, tools, and community to help you conduct your copyright status investigation and form your own conclusions.

Distance Education and the TEACH Act

• Distance Education and the TEACH Act (American Library Association)
• The TEACH Toolkit (North Carolina State University)

Electronic Reserves and Copyright

• Copyright Law and Electronic Reserves
• IPFW ReservesEXpress Copyright FAQ
• UW-Madison Library Policy for Electronic Reserve Access to Published Copyrighted Materials (1996)

Fair Use and Copyrighted Materials

• Checklist for Fair Use (Indiana-Purdue University Indianapolis)
• Copyright and Fair Use (Stanford University Libraries)
• Fair use of copyrighted material (University of Texas Copyright Management Center)
• ReservesEXpress Copyright FAQ
• Using the Four Factor Fair Use Test (University of Texas Copyright Management Center)

International Copyright

• International Federation of Library Associations (IFLA) Committee on Copyright and other Legal Matters (CLM)
• World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO)

Other Copyright Information Resources

• Copyright Management Center (University of Texas)
  University of Texas Office of General Counsel's Copyright Management Center's site is an especially rich resource. The Center provides guidance and information to faculty, staff and students concerning applicable law and the alternatives available to help accomplish educational objectives.
• Copyright Office (Purdue University)
• Electronic Frontier Foundation's Patent, Trademark, and Copyright Archive
  A collection of documents relating to intellectual property, particularly in relation to electronic publishing.
• Teaching Copyright Provides an honest, accurate and balanced curriculum that will help students understand and exercise their digital rights and responsibilities.
• U. S. Copyright Office