Copyright Information for Faculty and Students: For more information

Copyright is a complex subject. We have tried in this LibGuide to provide the most immediately relevant information we can for the Goucher community without overhwelming you with detail. There are other institutions--usually large research universities--that have full-time copyright experts and/or lawyers who have created more extensive resources. We link to a few of those here, in case you want more information.

U.S. Copyright Office --the horse's mouth, so to speak

Stanford University Libraries --copyright basics, copyright exceptions and fair use, copyright for authors, copyright for students, copyright for instructors, checklist for digital content rights clearance

Columbia University Libraries --copyright basics, sharing scholarly work, fair use in teaching & in your research, protecting scholarly legacy, and resources & tools

Cornell University Library --copyright 101, licenses and open access, using copyrighted materials, copyright term and the public domain, copyright resources, IP rights & privacy, author rights resources, small claims/Copyright Claims Board/CASE Act, film on campus

University of Chicago Copyright Information Center --Understanding Copyright (copyright and the public domain, fair use and other educational uses, fair use checklist, requesting permissions, distributing copyrighted works, further information), Why Copyright Matters (liability, proecting your rights and respecting others'), and Services (permission forms, linking to licensed resources)

Audiovisual Copyright Issues

Center for Media & Social Impact at American University --provides links to codes of best practices for fair use in various ways, including many relating to audiovisual uses

Code of Best Practices in Fair Use for the Visual Arts --from the College Art Association

Digital Images Rights Computator --from the Visual Resources Association

Music Copyright Resource Center --from the Music Publishers' Association