ARLIS/NA | Public Policy Committee

Copyright

    General resources
    General articles and reports
    Fair Use
    Originality requirement (Bridgeman decision)
    Copyright Term and the Public Domain
    Rights-holders Organizations
    International Copyright
    Scholarly Communication

General resources

Center for Intellectual Property and Copyright in the Digital Environment

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

General articles and reports

Copyright & Fair Use: The Great Image Debate. Visual Resources XII, no. 3-4 (1997).
Table of Contents.
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.

Hardy, I. Trotter. Project Looking Forward: Sketching the Future of Copyright in a Networked World-Final Report. Washington, DC: U.S. Copyright Office, May 1998. 304 pp.

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

Chaddock, Gail Russell, “When Is Art Free?” Christian Science Monitor online (June 11, 1998).

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.]

The Conference on Fair Use (CONFU), U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (1998)
Proposal for Educational Fair Use for Digital Images

U.S. Copyright Office:
Fair Use, FL 102 (form letter), December 1994. [One-page form letter on summarizing basic fair use principles.]
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.

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.

Consortium for Educational Technology for University Systems. Fair Use of Copyrighted Works: A Crucial Element in Educating America. Seal Beach, CA: CSU Chancellor's Office, 1995. 34 pp. [California State University, State University of New York, City University of New York.]

Visual Resources Association, “Copyright – Intellectual Property Rights – Fair Use”

Originality requirement

Bridgeman v. Corel. Text of federal court decision, Southern District of New York, 1999.

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 and the Public Domain

Eldred v. Ashcroft:
The 50-page transcript of the October 9 Supreme Court hearing of oral arguments in the Eldred v. Ashcroft case is now available at: http://www.supremecourtus.gov/oral_arguments/argument_transcripts/01-618.pdf

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.

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. http://info.lib.uh.edu/sepb/sepb.html

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.
http://www.arl.org/sparc/core/index.asp?page=h16

FOS News: News from the Free Online Scholarship (FOS) Movement- contains news items and a discussion list to subscribe to. http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/fosblog.html

Association of College & Research Libraries (ACRL)- has an "Issues and Advocacy" page dedicated to scholarly communication.
http://www.ala.org/Content/NavigationMenu/ACRL/Issues_and_Advocacy1/Scholarly_Communication/Scholarly_Communication.htm
Association of Research Libraries (ARL)- has an "Issues in Scholarly Communication" page that has information for researchers, publishers and librarians. http://www.arl.org/scomm/index.html

For information from the publishing side:

Professional Scholarly Publishing Bulletin- published by the Scholarly Publishing Division of the Association of American Publishers. http://www.pspcentral.org/bulletins/current_bulletin.pdf

Software and Information Industry Association- group that successfully lobbied to shut down PubSCIENCE because they considered it a government resource competing with private industry. http://www.siia.net/

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. http://www.legislature.state.oh.us/bills.cfm?ID=125_HB_145

Articles:

Houghton, John. "The crisis in scholarly communication: an economic analysis."
Victorian Association for Library Automation Conference, Melbourne (February
2002). Available at http://www.vala.org.au/vala2002/2002pdf/16Houton.pdf

Harnad, Steve. "Scholarly communication at the crossroads: a subversive proposal for electronic publishing." Association of Research Libraries. 1995. Available at http://www.vala.org.au/vala2002/2002pdf/16Houton.pdf

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