Public Policy Committee: Copyright

General Resources

• Center for Intellectual Property and Copyright in the Digital Environment
• Copyright and Art Issues. Compiled by Christine L. Sundt
• CNI-COPYRIGHT ListServ
• Legal Information Institute, Cornell Law School
  • Text of the Copyright Act
• United States Copyright Office:
  • Copyright Basics
  • Summary of the Digital Millenium Copyright Act (DMCA) of 1998
  • Analysis of the DMCA published in The Issue
  • Copyright Office Rulemaking Proceeding on Exemptions from Prohibition on Circumvention of Technological Measures that Control Access to Copyrighted Works.
• U.S. Copyright Office NewsNet

Articles & Reports

• Copyright & Fair Use: The Great Image Debate. Visual Resources XII, no. 3-4 (1997).
  • Editor's Introduction, Summary and Analysis, by Robert Baron.


• When Works Pass Into the Public Domain (A Chart) by Lolly Gasaway, University of North Carolina (2001)


• Robert A. Baron: "Papers on Copyright and Intellectual Property." Summary of NINCH Town Meeting, CAA Conference, Toronto, (1998)


• The Digital Dilemma: Intellectual Property in the Information Age. Washington, D.C.: National Academy Press, 2000.


• Henry M. Gladney. "Digital Dilemma: Intellectual Property. Synopsis and Views on the Study by the National Academies' Committee on Intellectual Property Rights and the Emerging Information Infrastructure." D-Lib Magazine 5, number 12 (December 1999).


• National Humanities Alliance. "Basic Principles for Managing Intellectual Property in the Digital Environment." March 24, 1997.


• U.S. Information Infrastructure Task Force, Working Group on Intellectual Property Rights, Bruce Lehman, Chair. Intellectual Property and the National Information Infrastructure: Report of the Working Group on Intellectual Property Rights. Washington, D.C.: U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, 1995. 238 pp.


• Mann, Charles C. "Who Will Own Your Next Good Idea?" Atlantic Monthly, September 1998. pp. 57-82.


• Oakley, Robert L. From Free Public Libraries to Pay Per View: Copyright and Access to Information in the Digital Age. Keynote Address, April 24, 1998.

Fair Use

• Campbell v. Acuff-Rose. Text of U.S. Supreme Court decision, 1994. ["Pretty Woman" parody case.]


• U.S. Copyright Office:
  • Reproduction of Copyrighted Works by Educators and Librarians. Circular 21, 1992.


• Maryly Snow, "Digital Images and Fair Use Web Sites"


• Georgia Harper, Fair Use of Copyrighted Materials. University of Texas policies and guidelines.
  • Includes the article Will We Need Fair Use in the Twenty-First Century?" (1997), a good introduction.


• Copyright Management Center. Indiana University, Purdue University


• American Association of Law Libraries. AALL Guidelines on the Fair Use of Copyrighted Works by Law Libraries (May, 1997)


• Crews, Kenneth D. "Fair Use and Higher Education: Are Guidelines the Answer?" Academe: Bulletin of the American Association of University Professors. Vol. 83, November/December 1997. pp. 38-40.


• Visual Resources Association, "Copyright, Intellectual Property Rights, Fair Use"

Originality Requirement

• Kathleen Connolly Butler. "Keeping the World Safe from Naked-Chicks-in-Art Refrigerator Magnets: The Plot to Control Art Images in the Public Domain through Copyrights in Photographic and Digital Reproductions." Hastings Communications and Entertainment Law Journal, v.21, n.1 (Fall 1998), pp.55-127. (PDF copy on file with Public Policy Committee.)

Copyright Term & the Public Domain

• Eldred v. Ashcroft:
  50-page transcript of the October 9 Supreme Court hearing of oral arguments in the Eldred v. Ashcroft


• Gasaway, Laura N. "When Works Pass Into the Public Domain." December 3, 1996.
  [One-page chart outlines the duration of copyright for works covered by U.S. copyright law.]

Rights-holders Organizations

• Association of American Publishers.
• International Publishers Association.
• Picture Agency Council of America. Copyright Commandments from PACA.
• Copyright Clearance Center
• American Intellectual Property Law Association

International Copyright

• World Intellectual Property Organization
• United States Copyright Office. International Copyright Relations of the United States
• Canadian Library Association, Copyright information page.
• Resources on Canadian copyright.

Scholarly Communication

• Special sites and organizations:
  • Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography- provides resources for scholars and librarians about electronic publishing.
  • Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition (SPARC) -- a joint effort between research institutions and publishers to provide better access to research at more affordable prices.
  • Open Access News: News from the Free Online Scholarship (FOS) Movement- contains news items and a discussion list to subscribe to.
  • Association of College & Research Libraries (ACRL): "Issues and Advocacy" page: dedicated to scholarly communication.
  • Association of Research Libraries (ARL): "Issues in Scholarly Communication" page: has information for researchers, publishers and librarians.
  • For information from the publishing side:
    
    • Professional Scholarly Publishing Bulletin published by the Scholarly Publishing Division of the Association of American Publishers.
    • Software and Information Industry Association agroup that successfully lobbied to shut down PubSCIENCE because they considered it a government resource competing with private industry.
• Legislation:
  • Electronic Government Services Act of Ohio: pending legislation that seeks to remove content from state databases that is considered in competition with commercial publishers. Other states are interested in creating similar legislation.
• Articles:
  • Houghton, John. "The crisis in scholarly communication: an economic analysis." Victorian Association for Library Automation Conference, Melbourne (February 2002).
  • Harnad, Steve. "Scholarly communication at the crossroads: a subversive proposal for electronic publishing." Association of Research Libraries. 1995.