Sources for Copyright-Related Information

For basic copyright information, the U.S. Copyright Office makes available the full text of its Circular #1 at:

http://www.loc.gov/copyright/circs/circ1.html

The Copyright Office publication that deals most directly with fair use - that is, with copyright information for the information user rather than for the information producer - is Section 107 of Circular #21, which can be downloaded as a PDF file from:

http://www.loc.gov/copyright/circs/circ21.pdf

The Copyright Office FAQ [frequently asked questions] page is also helpful:

http://www.loc.gov/copyright/faq.html

Question #47 of the FAQ deals explicitly with fair use.

San Francisco State University has a page on copyright and fair use, designed primarily for SFSU faculty, at:

http://online.sfsu.edu/faculty/copyright_info.html

and SFSU's policy on media copyright is enunciated at:

http://www.sfsu.edu/~avitv/Copyright.html

A non-profit organization, the Copyright Clearance Center Online, is designed to facilitate use of copyrighted materials especially in the classroom and other academic applications; see:

http://www.copyright.com

A couple of useful academic sites with links to many copyright-related pages are:

http://www.csuchico.edu/tlp/resources/offcampus/copyright

http://fairuse.stanford.edu

When all else fails and you want to try to curb plagiarism by identifying it promptly, try:

http://plagiarism.org

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