Copyright and Fair Use

American Library Association. Copyright and Intellectual Property.
Highlights issues, legislation, and government policy on intellectual property in areas of particular interest to libraries.

Consortium for Educational Technology for University Systems.  Fair Use of Copyrighted Works: A Critical Element in Educating America.
Representing the work of a consortium of three major university systems, California State University, State University of New York and City University of New York, this document addresses copyright and fair use issues for higher education.  Test your understanding of fair use by grappling with their Illustrative Scenarios.

Copyright Management Center, Indiana University
Directed to Indiana University's faculty and researchers, this site includes the copyright policy for that university as well as several useful articles by experts which interpret copyright issues for the educational setting. Their “Fair Use Checklist” is particularly helpful.

Fair Use, Center for Intellectual Property, University of Maryland University College 
Provides information on fair use issues in higher education and links to recommendations for fair use in educational materials.

Fair Use Guidelines for Educational Multimedia.  Nonlegislative Report of the Subcommittee on Courts and Intellectual Property, Committee on the Judiciary, U.S. House of Representatives.  September 27, 1996.
Reproduces the full text of the guidelines.

Stanford University copyright and fair use site
Provides links to primary and secondary materials and other sites dealing with fair use and copyright for print and electronic resources.

U.S. Copyright Office
A good starting point, this site includes an overview of the law, updates on recent legislation and access to information ACirculars@ on various copyright issues.

University of Texas.  Copyright Management Center
Like Indiana's site, this one is directed to faculty.  An especially useful feature is the tutorial, Copyright Crash Course.

Yahoo's intellectual property site
This search engine's index leads to a broad range of resources on all aspects of copyright.

"When Works Pass into Public Domain" by Lolly Gasaway, University of North Carolina UNC. Provides a useful chart calculating when works pass into public domain.