Intellectual Property Working Group
Selected Copyright Resources for Archivists and Librarians
Peter B. Hirtle
Best overall introduction to copyright:
Carrie Russell, Complete Copyright: An Everyday Guide for Librarians, American Library Association, 2004.
Best overall introductions to copyright for archivists:
Kenneth D. Crews, "Unpublished Manuscripts and the Right of Fair Use: Copyright Law and the Strategic Management of Information Resources," 5:2 Rare Books and Manuscripts Libraianship (1990)
Scott Burnham, "Copyright in Library-Held Materials: A Decision Tree for Librarians." Law Library Journal (Law Libr J) v. 96 no3 (Summer 2004) p. 425-48. http://www.aallnet.org/products/2004-26.pdf. (see Peter Hirtle's comments at http://blog.librarylaw.com/librarylaw/2004/08/copyright_advic.html ).
Gary M. Peterson & Trudy Huskamp
Peterson, Archives & Manuscripts: Law, Society of American Archivists, 1985.
Copyright Law:
The Copyright Law: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/
The Copyright Office: http://www.copyright.gov
Public Domain Resources:
Stephen Fishman, The Public Domain : How to Find and Use Copyright-Free Writings, Music, Art & More 2nd Edition. Nolo Press, 2004
Scanned renewal volumes of the Catalog of Copyright Entries: http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/renewals.html
The Stanford database of searchable renewals:
http://collections.stanford.edu/copyrightrenewals/
“Copyright Term and the Public Domain in the United States” (chart)
http://www.copyright.cornell.edu/training/Hirtle_Public_Domain.htm
On Section 108:
D. Buttler and K. Crews, “Copyright Protection and Technological Reform of Library Services” in Tomas Lipinski and Mary Minow, eds., Libraries, Museums, and Archives (2002)
On Digitization:
Mary Minow, “Library Digitization Projects and Copyright” (28 June 2002): http://www.llrx.com/features/digitization.htm
On the TEACH Act:
The TEACH Toolkit at North Carolina State University
http://www.lib.ncsu.edu/scc/legislative/teachkit/index.html
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