| Patents.com
Patent, Trademark, and/or Copyright offices of many other countries. |
Their parent page has answers to just about any Intellectual Property question you might have - very helpful resource. Ziff Davis Publishing recommends this page for "Extensive background information on copyrights, patent law, trademarks, and so forth." They also have a Web page that lists links to the Patent, Trademark, and/or Copyright offices of many other countries. |
| Fair Use Guidelines | Guidelines for educators using multimedia for classroom instruction.
Includes The Multimedia Fair Use Document including: the Non-Legislative
report, and letters of support from: Bruce Lehman, Commissioner of Patents
and Trademarks, and Marybeth Peters, Register of Copyrights at the Library
of Congress; Background and Sumary of the guidelines written By: Chris
Dalziel, Executive Director of the
Instructional Telecomunications Council; THE CONFERENCE ON FAIR USE, (CONFU) - AN INTERIM REPORT TO THE COMMISSIONER --DECEMBER 1996 Text of the report including the guideline documents for Distance Education and Educational Use of Digital Images. |
| Northwestern University Electronic
Reserve System (ERS)
About the ERS Guidelines for faculty wishing to use the ERS ERS and copyright |
Northwestern has an extensive electronic reserve system. This is something that many Colleges and Universities are trying in one form or another. You will want to look at these links to investigate what problems and concerns are raised by this technology, and how one University handles these issues. |
| AusWeb 95 | This is an Australian site that has a good discussion of the history of copyright. US, Canadian and Australian Copyright laws are very similar. |
| Sonoma State Library Copyright Resources | A very comprehensive list of sites on Intellectual Property and copyright at Sonoma State University. |
| The Copyright Webpage | A good source of current copyright information, including links to sound clips and other media that help illustrate legal cases. |
| 10 copyright
myths explained
A brief intro to copyright Linking rights Brad's main page |
Brad Templeton, founder of the ClariNet network, has written a few articles that are great for explaining legalese the average person. |
| U Michigan
Copyright page
U Michigan
Library - Patents Explained
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University of Michigan (Law Library, I think, thought it may be the undergrad library - the UGLI to those of us who spent time there :) has an excellent site on Copyright and Patent and Trademark (I really needed this to get a handle on what the difference is between the three) |
| Citing Electronic Resources | The Internet Public Library offers a Citing Electronic Resources page which includes links to a number of helpful guides to citing electronic information. |
| Publisher Liability in Cyberspace | "Publisher Liability in Cyberspace," a report by the Subcommittee of Interactive Services, of the Committee of Law and Commerce in Cyberspace, of the American Bar Association Business Law Section. This particularly addresses who is responsible for content published on-line, the service or the user. |