U.S. Copyright Office complete web site- Copyright Basics brochure from the U.S. Copyright Office (pdf)
- Text of the U.S. Copyright Act from the U.S. Copyright Office
- U.S. Copyright Term Lengths from Cornell University
- Foreign Copyright Term Lengths from Wikipedia
- Government Publications and Copyright from CENDI (Commerce, Energy, NASA, Defense Information)
- World Intellectual Property Organization's texts of foreign nations' copyright laws.
Copyright
The home page of Indiana University Libraries' guide to copyright law.
Head of the Copyright Program
Naz Pantaloni
Contact:
Indiana University Libraries
Herman B Wells Library
Room 241B
1320 East 10th Street
Bloomington, Indiana 47405-3907
Herman B Wells Library
Room 241B
1320 East 10th Street
Bloomington, Indiana 47405-3907
812-855-7028
General Copyright Links
U.S. Copyright OfficeCopyright Tutorial
IU Resources
Copyright at Indiana University Home Page- IU Intellectual Property Policy
- IUScholarWorks, a service offered by the IU Libraries to preserve and share IU research
Copyright at Indiana UniversityAuthors' Rights
- SPARC, the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition
- SPARC Addendum, the author addendum to publishing agreements, drafted by the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition
- Creative Commons Licenses
- Authors Alliance
- Columbia University Law School's Keep Your Copyrights.
Fair Use Resources
Fair Use Checklist (from Columbia University Libraries)- University of Texas Libraries' Crash Course on Copyright Fair Use of Copyrighted Materials
- Copyright and Fair Use from Stanford University Libraries
- American Library Association's interactive fair use online evaluator
- U.S. Copyright Office's index of fair use cases with summaries
- Remix Culture: Fair Use is Your Friend from American University's Center for Social Media
- American University's Center for Social Media has a series of guides to best practices for many kinds of uses:
Open Access
- The National Institutes of Health Public Access policy
- Bethesda Statement on Open Access Publishing
- Berlin Declaration on Open Access to Knowledge in the Sciences and Humanities
- Budapest Open Access Initiative
- Durham Statement on Open Access to Legal Scholarship
- The Case for Open Access at Public Library of Science
Public Domain
- Cornell University's chart showing copyright terms for works first published in the United States
- Copyright Office's brochure on restored copyrights removed from the public domain (pdf)
- UC Berkeley Public Domain Handbook (pdf)
For Artists
Columbia University's Copyright Advisory Office information on art.- A professor at Harvard Law School's collection of links on art law.
Columbia University's Copyright Advisory Office For Musicians
- Copyright information from the Music Library Association
- Information on public domain music
- Copyright search for songs from the Music Publishers Association