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
- List of countries' copyright durations from Wikipedia
- WIPO Lex: World Intellectual Property Organization's database of treaties, judgments and foreign nations' copyright laws
Head of the Copyright Program
Naz Pantaloni
Contact:
Indiana University Libraries
Herman B Wells Library
Room 241G
1320 East 10th Street
Bloomington, Indiana 47405-3907
Herman B Wells Library
Room 241G
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
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:
- Academic and Research Libraries
- Communications Studies
- Dance
- Documentary Filmmakers
- Film and Media Educators
- Images for Use in Teaching, Study, and Research
- Journalism
- Media Literacy Education
- Media Studies Publishing
- Online Video
- Open Courseware
- Open Educational Resources
- Orphan Works
- Poetry
- Software Preservation
- Sustainable Filmmaking
- Visual Arts
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 Musicians
- Copyright information from the Music Library Association
- Information on public domain music
- Copyright search for songs from the Music Publishers Association