Copyright Information Sites

Information about U.S. copyright law and about individuals holding copyright to unpublished manuscript material in North American and British repositories.

• CONFU: Conference on Fair Use (U.S. Patent and Trademark Office)
  Final Report to the Commissioner on the Conclusion of the Conference on Fair Use (1998).
• Copyright Advisory Network (American Library Association)
  Site intended to encourage librarians to discuss copyright concerns and seek feedback and advice from fellow librarians and copyright specialists.
• Copyright and Digital Property (Association of Research Libraries)
  Analysis of implications of the Digital Millenium Copyright Act (1998) and other recent federal law for libraries and the digital publication of materials from library collections. Information on the Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act, database proposals and legislation, and policies governing digital copying.
• Copyright & Fair Use (Stanford University)
  Statutes, judicial opinions, and other primary materials related to copyright law; current copyright legislation; Web links on copyright; and information on fair use.
• Copyright Clearance Center (CCC)
  The Copyright Clearance Center is an intermediary between copyright holders and content users, facilitating the exchange of reuse rights and royalties through a wide range of licensing services. It manages the rights to over 1.75 million works and represents more than 9,600 publishers and hundreds of thousands of authors and other creators. Includes "Copyright 101" overview.
• Copyright, Intellectual Property Rights, and Licensing Issues (Berkeley Digital Library SUNSite)
  Comprehensive site on all aspects of copyright and intellectual property in the electronic environment, with links to sites containing recent papers on digital fair use, database protection, ownership of digital works, and cyberspace law.
• Crash Course in Copyright (Georgia K. Harper, University of Texas Office of General Counsel)
  Descriptive overview of copyright, fair use, copyright in multimedia and the digital library, copyright management, licensing resources, and examples of presentations on these topics to faculty and student groups.
• LibraryLaw.com (Mary Minow)
  Comprehensive site with information on all aspects of law governing libraries, including copyright, intellectual property, licensing, photcopying, public domain, and fair use.
• UCLA Online Institute for Cyberspace Law and Policy (UCLA Graduate School of Education & Information Studies and UCLA School of Law)
  Cyberspace law bibliography, issues related to the Digital Millenium Copyright Act (1998), and law and court decisions governing all aspects of cyberspace, including intellectual property issues.
• U.S. Copyright Office (Library of Congress)
  Links to general information on U.S. copyright law and registration, including copyright basics, federal regulations, copyright information circulars, pending copyright legislation, and other Web resources.
• U.S. Copyrighted Works that have Expired into the Public Domain (Mary Minow, LibraryLaw.com)
  Table showing, for years 2002 to 2024, dates when particular types of published and unpublished material moves into the public domain.
• When Works Pass Into the Public Domain (Lolly Gasaway)
  Chart showing copyright terms for all materials under the Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act.
• When Works Pass Into the Public Domain in the United States: Copyright Term for Archivists and Librarians (Peter B. Hirtle)
  Peter B. Hirtle's consolidation and expansion of information in the Lolly Gasaway chart and other sources on copyright under the Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act.
• Writers and Their Copyright Holders (WATCH) (Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center, University of Texas at Austin)
  Database of names and addresses of copyright holders or contact persons for English-language authors whose papers are housed, in whole or in part, in libraries and archives in North America and the United Kingdom.

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