By Katherine Baer
Maryland Collections & Reference LibrarianMaryland State Law Library
There was one session at AALL that gave some real nuts & bolts information on copyright called “Copyright Hell: Sites to Get You Out of the Inferno.” This talk was delivered by George Pike, Director of the Barco Law Library at the University of Pittsburgh School of Law and Steven Melmut, Informational Technology Services Librarian at the University of North Carolina School of Law. They gave a nice introduction to copyright and then went into the finer points of fair use, researching copyright, and licensing.
Here are a few of the sites they recommended:
The Basics
US Copyright Office: www.copyright.gov
Copyright Laws: www.copyrightlaws.com
Fair Use
Stanford Copyright & Fair Use Center: fairuse.stanford.edu
Electronic Frontier Foundation: www.eff.org
Columbia University Copyright Advisory Office: copyright.columbia.edu/copyright
Research
Stanford Copyright Renewal Database: collections.stanford.edu/copyrightrenewals
US Copyright Office Online Records Search: www.copyright.gov/records
Licensing
Creative Commons: www.creativecommons.org
Copyright Clearance Center: www.copyright.com
Copyright Tutorials
Copyright Information Center: www.copyright.cornell.edu
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