Copyright Resources
Northwestern workshop handouts, guides and presentation slides
- Copyright and your research. Claire Stewart, 2012
- Copyright in ten minutes or less. Claire Stewart, 2011-2012
- Useful sites for Copyright, Fair Use and Intellectual Property (pdf) Charlotte Cubbage, Fall 2007
- Fair use for nonprint, Digital Rights Management and Authors rights (pdf). Claire Stewart, Fall 2007
- Scholarly Communication libgude: 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, Center for Social Media, American University
- Documentary filmmakers' statement of best practices in fair use, Center for Social Media, American University
- Code of best practices in fair use for online video, Center for Social Media, American University
- Code of best practices in fair use for poetry, Center for Social Media, American University
- Code of best practices in fair use for OpenCourseWare
- Code of best practices in fair use for scholarly research in communication, Center for Social Media, American University
- Code of best practices in fair use of dance-related materials, Dance Heritage Coalition
- Society for Cinema and Media Studies statement of fair use best practices for media studies publishing
- Society for Cinema and Media Studies' statement of best practices in fair use in teaching for film and media educators
- Code of best practices in fair use for academic and research libraries, 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
- Copyright term and the public domain in the United States. Chart developed by Peter Hirtle at Cornell University. Helps determine whether or not a work is still protected by copyright
- Know your Copy Rights, resources for teaching faculty from the Association of Research Libraries
- Learn more about Creative Commons
- Crash Course in Copyright. Introduction to copyright from the University of Texas.
