Fair Use and Copyright Guidelines and Policies Know Your Copy Rights — What You Can Do – A 2007 brochure aimed at faculty and teaching assistants from the Association of Research Libraries Applying Fair Use in the Development of Electronic Reserves Systems, November 2003 – Statement from the Association of Research Libraries seeks to articulate […]
Albany Law Journal of Science and Technology AIPLA Quarterly Journal From the American Intellectual Property Law Association Articles for Web Site Designers and Site Owners From Ivan Hoffman Association of College Research Libraries Intellectual Property Materials & Resources A History of Copyright in the United States Berkeley Technology Law Journal (University of California) BNA World […]
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While it’s true that no strings are attached to using public domain materials, you should be aware of certain potholes on the public domain highway, as described below. Multilayered Works Works such as movies or sound recordings may contain many underlying works, such as musical sound tracks, painted illustrations, or other works. There has been […]
The term “public domain” refers to creative materials that are not protected by intellectual property laws such as copyright, trademark, or patent laws. The public owns these works, not an individual author or artist. Anyone can use a public domain work without obtaining permission, but no one can ever own it. An important wrinkle […]
An academic coursepack is a collection of materials used in the classroom, distributed either in digital file format (“eReserves”) or photocopied in book format or as class handouts. Coursepacks are commonly offered for sale in campus bookstores, although professors may arrange to sell them in class. Most publishers grant “clearances” for coursepacks—that is, for a […]
Even very popular government mandates have opponents, and the National Institutes of Health’s (NIH) Public Access Policy certainly has its critics. According to the agency, “The NIH Public Access Policy implements Division G, Title II, Section 218 of PL 110-161 (Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2008). The law states:” The Director of the National Institutes of Health […]
Mary Minow: Good morning. I understand that international treaty discussions concerning libraries, archives and copyright are scheduled in Geneva in November 2011. How did that come to be? Winston Tabb: Really, where we began was at the International Federation of Library Associations and Instititutions (IFLA) World Congress in Oslo in 2005. We didn’t start with […]
Part I of Open Access Scholarship was an interview of Michelle Pearse, conducted by Executive Editor Mary Minow. As promised, here is part II, which will specifically address law reviews and legal scholarship. Eli Edwards: Nearly two years ago, a group of academic law library directors promulgated the Durham Statement on Open Access to Legal […]
Michael Geist offers us a useful background on the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) talks happening now in Mexico in The ACTA Guide, Part One: The Talks To-Date He includes a chronology going back to 2004 on origins of the anti counterfeiting trade agreement. He also provides a summary of the leaked U.S. proposal from last […]
