Intellectual Property/Copyright
Official Sites | Copyright Tutorials
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Intellectual Property |
Ky Institutions' IP Policies | Distance
Learning | Fair Use | Public Domain
| Organizations | Educational Institutions
| UCITA
The Official Sites:
- Title 17 - Copyright
Law -- US Code, Legal Information Institute, Cornell Law School
- This is the law.
- The Digital
Millennium Copyright Act US Copyright Office Summary -- US Copyright Office
- The DMCA is now a part of the law.
- US Copyright Office -- US Copyright
Office
- This is the official US copyright and intellectual property agency.
Copyright Tutorials: Sites to see first if you are just learning about copyright:
- Copyright
Crash Course -- University of Texas Austin
- Highly recommended for those wanting to learn about the intellectual property
issues. Created by UT Austin.
- Copyright Tutorial
-- University of Texas Austin
- Also created by UT Austin for their faculty who are teaching distance learning
courses. It makes use of the Copyright crash course above plus some additional
material. You have your choice of versions based on the speed of your connection.
It is UT Austin specific in context.
- Citing and Copyright Tutorial
-- Kentucky Virtual Library
- Created by the librarians of the Kentucky Virtual Library.
- Brief Introduction
to Copyright -- Brad Templeton
- By the author of "10 Big Myths About Copyright Explained" (linked below).
The author is on the board of directors of the Electronic
Frontier Foundation.
- 10 Big Myths About
Copyright Explained -- Brad Templeton
- Explanations of common misconceptions about copyright.
- Copyright Website -- Benedict O'Mahoney
- A good site put together by a lawyer.
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IP presentations at Ky. Faculty Development Conferences
- Intellectual Property Policy Development at a Non-Research Intensive Institution -- Dr. Phil Myers
- Presentation for Kentucky Conference - Building a Scholarly Sturcture for Teaching and and Learning, May 20 - 22, 2001.
- Intellectual Property: Your Next Frontier - Building a Scholarly Structure
for Teaching and Learning -- Dave King
- Presentation for Kentucky Conference - Building a Scholarly Sturcture for Teaching and and Learning, May 20 - 22, 2001.
Permission is granted to use these slides for non-profit educational purposes provided the source is appropriately cited.
- Intellectual
Property: A Brave New Virtual World -- Dave King, Katherine Adams, Sara
Sidebottom
- Presentation for Kentucky Conference on the Scholarship of Teaching
and Learning, May 22-23, 2000.
Intellectual Property
- CAMBIA Intellectual Property Resource
- This site allows free full-text searching of agricultural biotechnology patents and applications from the European Patent Office and the World Intellectual Property Office.
- Copyright Search
- Search copyright information from the U.S. Copyright Office by selecting one of the three databases-Books, Music, Etc.; Serials; Documents, which contain records of registrations and ownership since 1978.
- Department of Agriculture Biotechnology Patent Databases
- This site has a keyword searchable database of biotechnology patent materials.
- Department of Energy Patent Databases
- This site has two databases of patents and patent applications owned by the U.S. Department of Energy, its contractors or assignees.
- U.S. Patent and Trademark Office
- This site offers free access to two searchable patent databases. The Patent Grants database contains full-page images of U.S. patents issued since 1790 and the full-text of all patents issued since 1976. The second database contains the full text and full-pages images of all patent applications published since March 15, 2001.
- WIPO Guide to Intellectual Property Worldwide
- This guide provides essential information on intellectual property by means of individual country profiles on WIPO Member States. Country profiles include basic legislation, membership of international treaties, administrative structures, governmental and non-governmental bodies for information and enforcement, educational institutions and industrial property statistics.
Kentucky Institutions' Intellectual Property Policies:
- Kentucky Community and Technical College System
- The IP policy can be found in section 3.3.5.
- Northern Kentucky University
- University of Kentucky
- University of Louisville
- Western Kentucky University
- and its Report
on Intellectual Property and Distance Learning
Distance Learning:
- Distance Education
-- Copyright Management Center, IUPUI
- A list or resources and articles collected and created by the Copyright
Management Center at IUPUI
- UNCG
Forum on Copyright and Distance Learning
- Distance Education
-- American Library Association
- Information provided by ALA about copyright, distance education, and legislation.
- The Power of
the Internet for Learning: Moving from Promise to Practice -- Web Based
Education Commission
- This is the report from the Web Based Education Commission cahired by Senator
Bob Kerrey of Nebraska.
Fair Use:
- Title 17, Section
107 of the US Code - Limitations on exclusive rights: Fair use -- US Code,
Legal Information Institute, Cornell Law School
- These are the four statutory factors of fair use and the questions
you should ask yourself about a work to help determine whether or not it falls
under fair use.
- CETUS: Fair Use of Copyrighted
Works, A Crucial Element in Educating America -- CETUS
- From their own page: "This home page contains the electronic version of
Fair Use of Copyrighted Works, a pamphlet published by CETUS. It was 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."
- CONFU: The Conference
On Fair Use -- CONFU
- CONFU took place in 1998 to try to hammer out some of the issues on fair
use in the digital environment. Read the final report and other papers associated
with the conference here.
- Fair Use: Overview
and Meaning for Higher Education -- Kenneth Crews, IUPUI
- A Fair-Use Case
Study: Using Copyrighted Materials On The World Wide Web -- Dwayne K.
Butler, IUPUI
- Fair Use For Teaching
and Research -- Copyright Management Center, IUPUI
Public Domain:
- When Works Pass Into
Public Domain -- Lolly Gasaway, University of North Carolina
- This is an easy to use chart showing the timeline for works passing into the public domain
- When Works Pass Into the Public Domain: Copyright Term for Archivist -- Peter Hirtle, Cornell University
- A chart to help determine when a work passes into the public domain.
Organizations:
- Association of Research
Libraries: Copyright and Intellectual Property
- A list of resources and information on the issues from ARL. If you only
go to one site on this page this is the one to pick. You will become more
familiar with the issues surrounding copyright in the electronic environment.
- ALA, Office for Information
Technology Policy, Intellectual Property and Technology.
- This is the site put together by the American Library Association. Also
be sure to look at Copyright,
Libraries and the Public which gives a good introduction to copyright.
- Digital Future Coalition
- From their web site: "The Digital Future Coalition (DFC) is committed to
striking an appropriate balance in law and public policy between protecting
intellectual property and affording public access to it. The DFC is the result
of a unique collaboration of many of the nation's leading nonprofit educational,
scholarly, library, and consumer groups, together with major commercial trade
associations representing leaders in the consumer electronics, telecommunications,
computer, and network access industries."
- Electronic Frontier Foundation
- From their Web page: "EFF, the Electronic Frontier Foundation, is a nonprofit,
nonpartisan organization working in the public interest to protect fundamental
civil liberties, including privacy and freedom of expression, in the arena
of computers and the Internet."
- Copyright Clearance Center
- "CCC is a not-for-profit organization created at the suggestion of
Congress to help organizations like yours comply with US copyright law."
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- WIPO- World Intellectual Property Organization
- WIPO is one of 16 specialized agencies of the United Nations system of organizations. It administers 21 international treaties dealing with different aspects of intellectual property protection.
Educational Institutions:
- CopyOwn
- This site provides a collection of policies from AAU/AAL member institutions.
- Copyright Management
Center
- from IUPUI.
Uniform Computer Information Transactions Act (UCITA)
- The UCITA Index
-- Association of Research Libraries
- This is the most comprehensive site for UCITA - laws, testimonials, resources.
- UCITA in Maryland --
University of Maryland
- This is a site for statewide dialogs on implications of the UCITA implementation in Maryland.
- AFFECT
- AFFECT is an organization dedicated to lobbying
against UCITA.
- UCITA: A Guide to Understanding and Action: A Satellite Teleconference
- This conference takes place December 13, 2000, 1:00-4:00 p.m.EST. There are
links to required and additional readings, as well as information on panelists, audience, and schedule.
Last updated: Friday, 02-May-2003 16:25:40 EDT
