A better option would be to go to the sites through our annotated
lists as the information is sometimes difficult to find. The annotated
lists make it easier to locate the information pertinent to your needs.
There are some additional resources added at the end of this document.
These include a description of the process of preparing
this page and the annotations, as well as five messages
sent to the ILS 604 class in Fall 1995 regarding current issues of
copyright.
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CETUS: Consortium for Educational
Technology in University Systems (California State University, City
University of New York, State University of New York)
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Cornell Law
School
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Dalhousie University
(Halifax, Nova Scotia)
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Dartmouth College Copyright
Ownership Policy
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Harvard
University: Statement of Policy in Regard to Inventions, Patents, and Copyrights
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Massachusetts Institute
of Technology
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Queen's University
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Stanford University
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Triangle Research Libraries
Network
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University
of Alberta: Proposed Intellectual Property Policy draft (Oct. 1998)
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University of Arizona
Intellectual Property Policy, August 31, 1993
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University of California:
Policy
on Copyright Ownership 19 August 1992
Policy and
Guidelines on the Reproduction of Copyrighted Materials for Teaching and
Research April 1986
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University
of Colorado: Technology Transfer and Industry Outreach: copyright primer
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University of
Georgia Libraries Copyright Policy
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University of
Georgia Regents Guide to Understanding Copyright and Educational Fair Use
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University
of Minnesota
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University of
North Carolina
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University of Tennessee
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University
of Texas
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Washington
State University
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Yale University
Copyright Policy
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NON-UNIVERSITY INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RESOURCES
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ANNOTATED UNIVERSITY COPYRIGHT RESOURCES
Brigham Young University
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The BUY Intellectual Property
Policy
CETUS: Consortium for Educational Technology in University Systems
The CETUS home page contains the electronic version of Fair
Use of Copyrighted Works, put together by the Working Group on Ownership,
Legal Rights of Use and Fair Use of the CSU-SUNY-CUNY Joint Committee.
It also contains links to fair-use guidelines and other resources that
are intended to promote a fuller understanding and appreciation of copyright
laws. CETUS partners include SUNY (the State University System of New York,
which is composed of 64 campuses enrolling close to 400,000 students),
California State University System (the 21 campuses of the California State
University System enrolled 325,963 students in fall, 1995), and CUNY (the
City University of New York, the nation's leading public urban university,
enrolling 213,000 students, 45 percent of them over 25 years of age).
Columbia University
CIE: Columbia Innovation
Enterprise. Statement of Policy on Proprietary Rights in the Intellectual
Products of Faculty Activity
CREDO:
Copyright Resources for Education Online; the ILT guide to Copyright.
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Cornell Law School
This WWW site is maintained by the Legal Information Institute at Cornell
Law School. The site provides links to important primary legal sources,
including the links shown below. It is a rich web site providing many additional
links to primary and interpretative documents.
Dalhousie University (Halifax, Nova Scotia)
This document is the text of several sections of the Dalhousie
Faculty Association Collective Agreement which retain broad rights
for faculty who produce a work of art or authorship, including software.
The terms of this agreement contrast markedly with terms typically put
forward by U.S. colleges and universities. This excerpt is dated 1995.
Queen's University
The Queen's University
Copyright Policy was prepared for the university by the Association
of Universities and Colleges of Canada and the Canadian Association of
Research Libraries. It is a simple guide for Canada's universities to the
complex world of copyright, fair dealing and collective licensing. The
document provides a brief review of Canada's copyright law, defines "fair
dealing" and discusses what steps should be taken if copying needs fall
outside the limits of fair dealing. An explanation of the provisions of
the CANCOPY license is also included. The document is dated May 1995.
Stanford University
The Stanford University Copyright Page provides links to many other sources
some having general applicability and some specific to the Stanford University
environment.
"Copyright
Materials at Stanford" provides access to a wide variety of documents
(gopher files) ranging from the text of the Audio Home Recording Act of
1992, to several policies and guides created by the Stanford University
Copyright Office, to scholarly papers on copyright issues, to the text
of the U.S. Copyright Act and sections of the Berne Convention.
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Triangle Research Libraries Network
The Triangle Research
Libraries Network Model University Copyright Policy site contains a
model university copyright policy drafted by a joint committee of faculty,
librarians and university press editors from Duke University, North Carolina
State University, and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
The document provides background for and a review of copyright issues in
general and particularly those surrounding faculty publication in scientific
and technical scholarly journals. The effort to create this model policy
is part of a larger effort to develop strategies and plans for cooperative
information resources development in the sciences and engineering. The
document is dated July 1993.
University of Alberta
The University of Alberta provides links to a number of documents relating
to Canadian copyright law. Included are:
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"Copying
Right" is a simple guide for Canada's universities to the complex world
of copyright, fair dealing, and collective licensing. This document is
dated September 1994.
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"A
Guide to Copying at the University of Alberta under the CANCOPY License"
was prepared by the Director of Libraries, University of Alberta. The document
provides a useful quick "checklist" for copying questions and also more
detailed guidance. This document is dated October 1995.
University of California
The UC system has several documents offering policy and guidance on copyright
issues.
University of Colorado
The University of Colorado's site contains two documents. The first, "Policy
on Intellectual Property," is a statement clarifying the ownership
of intellectual property created by individuals affiliated with the University.
"In keeping with long-standing tradition and consistent with academic freedom,
the University does not claim rights to textbooks by faculty authors."
The document includes a link to the University's "Patent Primer" and provides
guidelines on several patent-related questions. This policy statement is
not dated.
The second document at this site is a short policy statement on
"Software
as Intellectual Property at CU Boulder" which states that "[c]omputer
programs and other software written by CU faculty, students, or staff,
are treated like inventions. Rights to such software are owned by the University.
So, software is treated differently than textbooks written by University
faculty, the rights to which belong to the faculty author." This policy
statement is not dated.
University of Georgia
The University
of Georgia Libraries Copyright Policy is lengthy document produced
by the University of Georgia Libraries. It begins with an introduction
to the intent of copyright and continues with a general outline of the
law's stipulations about public domain, copyright duration, fair use and
library employee liability. The policy statements cover copy services,
reserves, document delivery, interlibrary loan, government publications,
preservation, photographic services, rare books and manuscripts, nonbook
materials, and license agreements. A list of references is also included.
This statement is dated July 1994.
University of Georgia Regents Guide to Understanding Copyright and Educational
Fair Use
The University System of Georgia has developed the "Regents
Guide to Understanding Copyright and Educational Fair Use." The "Guide",
developed by the University System Committee on Copyright, provides examples
of fair use and a summary of copyright law. The examples include research
and writing, printed material, video and sound recordings, multimedia projects,
distance education, and electronic course reserves. Miriam Drake, Director
of Libraries, Georgia Institute of Technology and William Potter, Director,
University of Georgia Libraries, are members of the Committee.
University of Minnesota
This extensive document, "Interim
Guidelines for the Use of Copyrighted Works," was written by Erika
Brant, Copyright Administrator at the University of Minnesota. It includes
a general introduction to the purpose of copyright. The document also provides
guidelines for what kind of use or copying is permitted to teachers for
classroom instruction, to librarians for library purposes, and others for
various purposes. The categories of materials covered include video and
other media, music, computer software, and materials held by the University
Library and Archives. This statement is dated June 30, 1995.
University of North Carolina
This document, entitled, "Copyright
Guidelines," includes an extensive explanation of the guidelines for
making multiple copies for classroom use of both print and video sources.
The explanation focuses on higher education and notes the areas where the
"Classroom Guidelines" do not fit well with the needs of postsecondary
education. The policy guidelines regarding software based on sections 109(b)(2)(A)
and 117 of the 1976 Copyright Act. A sample letter for seeking permission
to use a copyrighted work is included in the policy appendix. The document
is dated August 1993.
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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. A large number of
materials are accessible through the Web site, organized by topic. Some
important documents stored directly on the Web server. These are listed
below. Extensive links to external sites are also provided.
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The well organized homepage
of the University of Texas Office of General Counsel's Copyright Management
Center is designed to provide guidance in the following areas: ownership;
registration; software (creation, use, copying and licensing); exemptions
from liability for infringement; electronic creation, distribution and
use; scholarly publication; and frequently asked questions. Many links
to externals sites are also provided.
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The University
of Texas System Intellectual Property Policy from The University of
Texas System Regents Rules and Regulations. This policy is not dated.
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"Copy
right in the University Community," is a collection of articles written
by Georgia Harper, attorney for the University of Texas system. The articles
deal primarily with academic fair use.
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Notes on copyright in a number of University-related contexts, including
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NON-UNIVERSITY INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RESOURCES
Association of Research Libraries
The Association of Research Libraries
has information available on its World
Wide Web server. These contain a number of relevant documents, including:
The ARL's general copyright
page also includes links to information at other locations.
CANCOPY
CANCOPY, the Canadian copyright licensing
agency, acts on behalf of writers and publishers to grant permission to
copy, either on an individual basis with a one-time transactional license,
or with comprehensive licenses for high-volume users, such as schools,
universities, and governments. This site is useful as a resource on Canadian
copyright, helpful in making comparisons with U.S. copyright law.
The material at CANCOPY's Web site is currently only descriptive.
General information on Canadian
Copyright and the CANCOPY organization are included, as are details
on
Post-Secondary Licensing
and School Licensing.
Coalition for Networked Information
The Coalition for Networked Information (CNI) has a homepage from which
you can access both World
Wide Web and Gopher materials,
with some overlap between the two sources.
CNI maintains several high quality e-mail
forums, including one on copyright and intellectual property, CNI-COPYR
IGHT.
The archives
of the e-mail forum are available on the CNI Gopher server. These are organized
in folders by month, starting with August 1992 and continuing through the
current month.
The CNI Gopher server also contains a number of miscell
aneous documents on copyright, including Terry Carroll's six-part "Frequently
Asked Questions About Copyright," which was last updated in January 1994,
and
"Information
Policies: A compilation of position statements, principles, statutes,
and other pertinent statements" (compiled November 1991). This starts with
an introduction from which you can continue through all of the collected
documents via arrows at the bottom of each piece. An index button is placed
between the forward and backward buttons so you can skip around. These
documents are also available at
the gopher site.
CNI's
READI Guide (Rights for Electronic Access to and Delivery of Information)
provides a paragraph-by-paragraph analysis of contractual language in the
networked environment. It is designed to assist network vendors, suppliers,
publishers, and buyers of networked information in their efforts to negotiate
effective agreements.
Copyright Clearance Center
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. You must register with the CCC to use their services,
and this does include an annual fee. There is additional information on
the organization as well as demonstrations of the different online permission
services.
The Academic Permissions
Service gives permissions to make academic coursepacks or classroom
handouts.
The Transactional
Reporting Service is designed for use by small corporations, individuals,
and governments. This reporting service provides immediate authorization
to photocopy from over 1.75 million publications.
The Digital
Licensing section is not yet functional. Information on this service
is provided.
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The Copyright Website
The Copyright Website provides information
on the fundamentals
of copyright and how copyright law applies to multimedia and to the World
Wide Web. It includes examples of some more famous audio and visual
copyright infringements,
such as outtakes from 2-Live Crew's "Pretty Woman." Fair use examples also
take the form of audio materials. Cutting
edge issues of Internet hyperlinks, WWW publishing, and the NII are
also addressed.
Corporation for National Research Initiatives
The Corporation
for National Research Initiatives (CNRI) is a non-profit research and
development organization working in conjunction with the Library of Congress
to develop a testbed for registration of copyright material in a computer
network environment. This will permit electronic submission of copyright
registration and notification of registration in an interactive network.
The page includes a description of the project as well as charts
showing the major subsystems in relation to existing U.S. Copyright Office
systems.
The E-Law Page
The E-Law Page was compiled
by lawyer David J. Loundy. It includes the text of his published works,
including the following two documents:
The Electronic Frontier Foundation
The Electronic Frontier Foundation is
a San Francisco-based group dedicated to helping civilize the electronic
frontier and make it useful and beneficial to all, not just the technological
elite. The EFF's intellectual property resources are available both through
the World Wide
Web and Gopher.
In particular, there are a large number of materials related to intellectual
property and the NII, and to intellectual property laws and software. This
is the place to find more radical interpretations of copyright law and
practice, such as articles on 'is
copyright dead'. Several other documents are highlighted below.
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Prepared in response to a request from state legislators.
International Federation of Library Associations
The International Federation
of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA) is maintaining a page
of links to selected documents, organizations and national and international
laws dealing with intellectual property law, primarily copyright, on their
Copyright
and Intellectual Property Resources page. The selection of document
links is particularly strong, including the following three widely-cited
articles, all of which have been published in WIRED magazine:
Other information at this site includes a Summer 1994 document from the
Nolo Press' "Nolo News." Steve Elias' "Cop
yrights in Cyberspace," 1994. This is a short, clearly written introduction
to important aspects of copyright in the Internet environment. Elias is
the editor of Nolo's The Copyright Handbook, written by Steve Fishman.
This site also has extensive resource lists for Japan, Canada,
Europe, and Australia. An important document included from Canada is the
"Final
SubCommittee Report on Copyright and the Information Highway." The
document was prepared by the Copyright SubCommittee of the Working Group
on Canadian Content and Culture, itself a part of the Advisory Council
on the Information Highway. The recommendations were developed between
August and December 1994, with the final report released in May 1995.
Princeton University Press et al. v. Michigan Document Services
The Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled on 12 February 1996 in favor of
Michigan Document Services, an Ann Arbor copy shop which had been sued
for its practices involving coursepacks. The text of the court's
decision (by a 2-1 vote) is available, along with the dissenting
opinion of one justice and a statement by the Association
of American Publishers on the case.
Thomas
The United States Congress' Thomas
Web site provides speedy access to the bills introduced in the House and
Senate. A useful function of Thomas is the ability to search
the text of bills introduced in the 104th Congress for terms such as
'copyright.'
Another place to look on Thomas is in the subject
index to the Congressional Record Index for the word 'copyright' as
mentioned in the 104th Congress. This index is both browsable with 'copyright'
as a subject listing, and searchable with 'copyright' as a keyword.
United States Copyright Office
The Copyright Office at the Library of Congress has both a World
Wide Web site and a Gopher
site. A number of relevant materials are available here as ASCII gopher
files, including:
The U.S. Copyright Office has a World
Wide Web presence through the Library of Congress. Documents that are
available through the gopher site are cross-listed here. Additional materials
include a how-to page for searching
Copyright Office Records through LOCIS. These records date from 1978
and include registration information and recorded documents. The Copyright
Office Electronic Registration, Recordation and Deposit System (CORDS),
developed in late 1995, is still in the testing stage. Full implementation
of the system is planned for 1996, depending on fund availability.
United States Working Group on Intellectual Property
NII "White Paper" Final Report-- Intellectual Property and the National
Information Infrastructure
The Final Report of the Working
Group on Intellectual Property, a subgroup of the Information Infrastructure
Task Force, was released on September 5, 1995. The directory includes the
complete document, an executive summary, and the statements of Assistant
Secretary and Commissioner of Patents and Trademarks Bruce A. Lehman. In
addition, media advisories and press releases are available.
The preliminary draft of this report, commonly called the "Green
Paper," was released in July 1994. It is also available in several
formats to view or download from the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office's
WWW Server. Documents are located at the U.S.
Patent and Trademark Office.
Additional Resources
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