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Copyright Resources

Northwestern workshop handouts, guides and presentation slides

Copyright and your research [1]. Claire Stewart, 2012
Copyright in ten minutes or less [2]. Claire Stewart, 2011-2012
Useful sites for Copyright, Fair Use and Intellectual Property (pdf) [3] Charlotte Cubbage, Fall 2007
Fair use for nonprint, Digital Rights Management and Authors rights (pdf). [4] Claire Stewart, Fall 2007
Scholarly Communication libgude [5]: copyright, author's rights, open access, self-archiving, peer review and collaboration

Helpful copyright sites

Codes of best practice in fair use:
- Code of best practice in fair use for media literacy education [6], Center for Social Media, American University
- Documentary filmmakers' statement of best practices in fair use [7], Center for Social Media, American University
- Code of best practices in fair use for online video [8], Center for Social Media, American University
- Code of best practices in fair use for poetry [9], Center for Social Media, American University
- Code of best practices in fair use for OpenCourseWare [10]
- Code of best practices in fair use for scholarly research in communication [11], Center for Social Media, American University
- Code of best practices in fair use of dance-related materials [12], Dance Heritage Coalition
- Society for Cinema and Media Studies statement of fair use best practices for media studies publishing [13]
- Society for Cinema and Media Studies' statement of best practices in fair use in teaching for film and media educators [14]
- Code of best practices in fair use for academic and research libraries [15], Association of Research Libraries and Center for Social Media, American University
Full text of the United States Copyright Law, from the United States Copyright Office [16]
Copyright term and the public domain in the United States [17]. Chart developed by Peter Hirtle at Cornell University. Helps determine whether or not a work is still protected by copyright
Know your Copy Rights [18], resources for teaching faculty from the Association of Research Libraries
Learn more about Creative Commons [19]
[20]
Crash Course in Copyright [21]. Introduction to copyright from the University of Texas.

Source URL: http://www.library.northwestern.edu/services/faculty-graduate-students/copyright/resources

Links:
[1] http://www.slideshare.net/cscdc/copyright-your-research-2012
[2] http://www.slideshare.net/cscdc/a-quick-introduction-to-copyright
[3] http://www.library.northwestern.edu/sites/www.library.northwestern.edu/files/pdfs/cubbage-copyright-wkshp-07.pdf
[4] http://www.library.northwestern.edu/sites/www.library.northwestern.edu/files/pdfs/2E-drm-stewart-hand.pdf
[5] http://libguides.northwestern.edu/scholcomm
[6] http://www.centerforsocialmedia.org/fair-use/related-materials/codes/code-best-practices-fair-use-media-literacy-education
[7] http://centerforsocialmedia.org/fair-use/best-practices/documentary/documentary-filmmakers-statement-best-practices-fair-use
[8] http://centerforsocialmedia.org/fair-use/related-materials/codes/code-best-practices-fair-use-online-video
[9] http://centerforsocialmedia.org/fair-use/related-materials/codes/code-best-practices-fair-use-poetry
[10] http://centerforsocialmedia.org/ocw
[11] http://centerforsocialmedia.org/fair-use/related-materials/codes/code-best-practices-fair-use-scholarly-research-communication
[12] http://centerforsocialmedia.org/fair-use/related-materials/codes/best-practices-fair-use-dance-related-materials
[13] https://cmstudies.site-ym.com/resource/resmgr/docs/scmsbestpractices4fairuseinp.pdf
[14] http://www.cmstudies.org/documents/SCMSBestPracticesforFairUseinTeaching-Final.pdf
[15] http://centerforsocialmedia.org/libraries
[16] http://www.copyright.gov/title17/
[17] http://www.copyright.cornell.edu/training/Hirtle_Public_Domain.htm
[18] http://www.knowyourcopyrights.org/resourcesfac/faq/
[19] http://creativecommons.org/learnmore/
[20] http://www.library.northwestern.edu/blog/nulcopyright/
[21] http://www.utsystem.edu/OGC/IntellectualProperty/cprtindx.htm#top