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• Copyright from UIUC Library Information Literacy Services and Instruction
  Copyright from University Library Online Reference Collection

• Copyright and Scholarly Communication from University Library LEARN

• UIUC Copyright Compliance Statement [pdf]

• Copyright Information and Copyright Compliance Statement from the UIUC Office of the Chief Information Officer (CIO)  
  Covers general, personal, and classroom use of copyrighted materials.  Plus links to lots of other University of Illinois information on copyright and fair use, including electronic reserves, Internet/computer technologies, etc.

Other Resources

• Center for Intellectual Property and Copyright in olicies/copthe Digital Environment

• Copyright Basics  from the Library of Congress U.S. Copyright Office

• Copyright Clearance Center (CCC) is the world's premier provider of copyright licensing and compliance solutions for the information content industry ...... [an] intermediary between copyright holders and content users, facilitating the exchange of reuse rights and royalties through a wide range of licensing services"   (From Corporate Overview http://www.copyright.com/ccc/do/viewPage?pageCode=au1.    See their publications  " Campus Guide to Copyright Compliance for Academic Institutions" (guidelines and resources concerning copyright for campus institutions) and " Using Electronic Reserves: Guidelines and Best Practices for Copyright Compliance."  

• Copyright Clearance Center (CCC):  News Press releases and articles about CCC, including CCC  copyright infringement lawsuits

• Copyright Term and the Public Domain in the United States, 1 January, 2006  provided by Cornell's Copyright Training Center. 

Chart was first published in published in Peter B. Hirtle  [Intellectual Property Officer, Cornel University Library], "Recent Changes To The Copyright Law: Copyright Term Extension," Archival Outlook, January/February 1999.  This version is current as of 6 July 2004. The most recent version is found at http://www.copyright.cornell.edu/training/Hirtle_Public_Domain.htm.  The chart is based in part on Laura N. Gasaway's chart, "When Works Pass Into the Public Domain," at http://www.unc.edu/~unclng/public-d.htm, and similar charts found in Marie C. Malaro, A Legal Primer On Managing Museum Collections (Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1998): 155-156.  A useful copyright duration chart by Mary Minow, organized by year, is found at http://www.librarylaw.com/DigitizationTable.htm.  See also Library of Congress Copyright Office. Circular 15a, Duration of Copyright: Provisions of the Law Dealing with the Length of Copyright Protection (Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, 2004) http://www.copyright.gov/circs/circ15a.pdf"

• Library of Congress Copyright Office

• Title 17, Section 107 of the US Code - Limitations on exclusive rights: Fair use from the Legal Information Institute, Cornell Law School

Other University Library Policies

• Copyright & Fair Use from the Stanford University Libraries

• Copyright – An Overview from the Cornell University Law School Legal Information Institute (LII) 

• Copyright Training Center from the Cornell Copyright Information Center - a collaboration of the Cornell University Library, Cornell Information Technologies, Office of Technologies, Office of University Counsel, and The Cornell Store.

• Copyright News and Pending Legislation  from the Cornell Copyright Information Center - a collaboration of the Cornell University Library, Cornell Information Technologies, Office of Technologies, Office of University Counsel, and The Cornell Store.

• Fair Use of Copyrighted Materials from the University of Texas System, which includes a crash course.  

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