AISR Guidelines for Educators AISR Policy on Reserves Guidelines for Classroom Copying Guidelines for Electronic Reserves Sample Letter to Request Permission Paying for Permission to Reproduce (Copyright Clearance Center requests) Jefferson Guidelines for Authors Depositing Your Work With NIH or the Jefferson Digital Commons Retaining Your Copyright Jefferson Policies on Copyright and Patents for Authors are included in the official University Policies: Direct access (link from a computer on the TJU campus master network) Access via Pulse - (link to Pulse, the campus portal, log in with your Campus Key, and choose the link for University Policies. Note: Search the policies for "copyright" or "patent." Using New Technologies Podcasting Legal Guide

JEFFSelects: Copyright & Fair Use

Take AISR's Copyright Workshop for Jeffersonians
An online tutorial for educators and authors.

Overviews & Interpretations

• Copyright: an Overview
  Cornell University Legal Information Institute.
• Copyright Law and Distance Learning
  University Counsel, University of North Carolina at Greensboro.
• Copyright Crash Course
  An online guide and tutorial from the University of Texas.
• Intellectual Property Law Primer for Multimedia Developers
  Timestream, Inc. ". . . based on the Multimedia Law Handbook from Ladera Press, which has been endorsed by the Interactive Multimedia Association."
• 10 Big Myths about Copyright Explained
  By Brad Templeton, Chairman of the Board of the Electronic Frontier Foundation.
• Timeline: A History of Copyright in the United States
  Association of Research Libraries.

Copyright Legislation & Government Resources

• U.S. Code, Title 17: Copyrights
  From the Cornell University Legal Information Institute.
• The Technology, Education and Copyright Harmonization (TEACH) Act
• Copyright Law of the United States
  Text of the laws in Title 17, from the U.S. Copyright Office
• Balancing Copyright Concerns: The TEACH Act of 2001(PDF)
  By Laura Gasaway, EduCause Review, Nov.-Dec. 2001
• U.S. Copyright Office, Library of Congress -- Full texts of copyright law and other related items, including links to copyright/intellectual property related organizations.

Gateways & Policies at Other Institutions

• Columbia University Copyright Advisory Office
  Extensive gateway for all topics.
• EDUCOM Code
  Software and Intellectual Rights section.
• Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  Intellectual property policy.
• University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
  Plagiarism.
• Stanford University: Copyright and Intellectual Property
  An extensive gateway for all topics.
• Stanford University Libraries: Copyright and Fair Use
  An extensive gateway for all topics.

Commercial Support Services for Authors

• Copyright Clearance Center® Online (CCC)
  The Copyright Clearance Center is a not-for-profit organization providing collective copyright licensing services.
• The Copyright Website
  ". . . endeavors to provide real world, practical and relevant copyright information of interest to infonauts, netsurfers, webspinners, content providers, musicians, appropriationists, activists, infringers, outlaws, and law abiding citizens."
• Creative Commons
  This Stanford University-based organization offers access to public-domain materials, as well as licensing and distribution if you want to make your own materials freely available to others. MIT uses the Creative Commons license for its Open Courseware.
• Official Copyright.com
  Offers compliance guidelines, rights management information, and registration assistance.
  
  

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