COPYRIGHT RESOURCES
The resources listed below are worth going through if you need to get familiar with the big picture - and it's big. Copyright is a very important issue in the current world and there are valuable resources regarding copyright on the Educational CyberPlayGround .
Educational CyberPlayGround COPYRIGHT
- K-12 PRIMER - Copyright law what is ok in the classroom? WHO OWNS IT the teacher or employer? Podcasting Legal Guide: Rules for the Revolution, a general roadmap of some of the legal issues specific to podcasting."
- COMIC BOOK ON COPYRIGHT LAW
Duke University Law School's Center for the Study of the Public Domain has published a comic book to teach users copyright law basics, including the distinctions between fair use and copyright infringement. The book's format and content are especially relevant to college students who are using and creating multimedia works. TALES FROM THE
PUBLIC DOMAIN: BOUND BY LAW? can be downloaded for free. - What a K12 Teacher or Administrator Needs To Know
- COPYRIGHT PERMISSION FORM LETTER
- The Copyright Clearance Center, a nonprofit group manages licenses for the reuse of published material, has created an annual copyright license for colleges. The license will let institutions pay a blanket fee to use copyrighted material instead of having to secure the rights to such content on a case-by-case basis.
E- RESERVE:The blanket fee will make it easier for professors and librarians to place articles and book excerpts in course packets, in electronic reserves, and on course Web sites, officials at the copyright center said.
Is it in the Public Domain?
- CopyRight --
Orphaned works and How to find out.
Stanford has Copyright Renewal Database
Books published from 1923 to 1963 fall into an interesting period in U.S. copyright history because from 1964 on, copyright renewals were automatic under the 1976 change in the copyright laws. Also, the Copyright Office only put into its online database renewals received after 1977. Building on earlier work by Project Gutenberg Stanford has put online the renewal forms, though only for books. Still, someone might find it useful, and it's free.
Firms Out of Business (FOB), an online database containing the names and addresses of copyright holders or contact persons for out-of-business printing and publishing firms, magazines, literary agencies and similar organizations that have archives housed in libraries and archives in North America and the United Kingdom.
Writers, Artists and Their Copyright Holders (WATCH), an online database containing the names and addresses of copyright holders or contact persons for authors and artists. FOB is a companion project to FOB. The objective of both projects is to provide information to scholars and researchers about whom to contact for permission to publish text and images that have copyright protection.
ARTS
- MUSIC AND COPYRIGHT LAW
- GUIDELINES FOR MUSIC COPYRIGHT Guidelines have been developed and approved by the Music Publishers' Association of the United States, Inc., the National Music Publishers' Association, Inc., the Music Teachers National Association, the Music Educators National Conference, the National Association of Schools of Music, and the Ad Hoc Committee on Copyright Law Revision.
- U.S. Copyright Office - Identifies who owns movies, books and other works
- Issues relating to audio, visual, digital and paper based materials mostly deals with US copyright laws but is a useful guide.
- Copyright Images and Graphics and Theft
- COPYRIGHT FREE -- buttons, backgrounds, animations, graphics
COPYRIGHT RESOURCES
- Dave Farber's review of a book by Lawrence Lessig entitled "Code : and other laws of cyberspace".
- SECURITY AND COPYRIGHT
- Bad Software: What To Do When Software Fails
- Hundreds of Net Disputes in International Mediation
- COPYRIGHT CLEARANCE CENTER
- CYBERSPACE LAW
- SOFTWARE PUBLISHERS ASSOC.
- COPYRIGHT WIZARD
- Search CopyRight
- Copyright Registrations Procedures
- LOC downloadable copyright forms and complete instructions for filing for your copyright, fegistration fee is only $30
- Online Copyright Forms
Request Copyright Office circulars and application forms, write to:
Library of Congress
Copyright Office
Publications Section, LM-455
101 Independence Avenue, S.E.
Washington, D.C. 20559-6000
Or, if you know which forms and circulars you want, request them 24 hours a day from the Forms and Publications Hotline at (202) 707-9100. Leave a recorded message. - Copyright Protection Not Available for Names, Titles, or Short Phrases
- For questions on trademarks or for information on registering a federal trademark www.uspto.gov
Write to:
Commissioner of Patents and Trademarks
Washington, D.C. 20231
Or call the
Patent and Trademark help line at (800) PTO9199 or (703) 308-HELP (TTY: (703) 305-7785).
Trademark Assistance Center, call (703) 308-9000.
Indemnification Clauses
Many indemnification clauses are triggered by warranty clauses - promises you make to the publisher. It is cleaner to keep a contractual distance from anything that you can't control. Suggest you make warranties only "to the writer's knowledge." Warranty clauses typically cover a range of conditions - copyright infringement, infringing any third party's rights (including those publicity and privacy), or writing something that would be libelous. Sometimes, editors will add things without telling the author. What happens when an editor makes up a quote out of nothing? If that quote puts the source in a bad light, you could be talking about a law suit. Or what if someone at the publication adds some "information" that is somehow judged to be an infringement of a company's intellectual property? It's hard to imagine a court would agree to an indemnification predicated on something that writer hadn't written.
