Copyright and Fair Use
Department and personal home page publishers are responsible for their own Web pages. This includes responsibility for avoiding copyright violations, complying with local, state, and federal laws and other University policies, and keeping the information up to date.
The United States and International Copyright laws ) apply to electronic publishing as well as to print publishing. (Copyright Law of the United States (Title 17 U.S.C.) It is the responsibility of department and personal home page publishers to avoid copyright violations, and to comply with local, state, and federal laws.
- Be sure you have permission to publish the information, graphics, or photographs on your pages if you are not the author or creator.
- Photographs of an individual or personal information about an individual must not be included without the permission of the individual.
- The responsibility and any liability rests with the Web page creator, not the University. Full attribution for any material reproduced on a University Web page must be provided on the page.
- If you publish Web pages that contain copied material, you must also display the following copyright notice:
"This material may be protected by copyright law (Title 17 U.S.C.)
Seton Hall University's DMCA Compliance Website"
Copyright Resources
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Copyright Primer
An online course with links to resources from the University of Texas.
http://www.utsystem.edu/ogc/IntellectualProperty/cprtindx.htm Copyright Permissions Page a service of Wake Forest University) A collection of links to copyright permission pages of various publishers and journals)
http://www.law.wfu.edu/library/copyright/-
Link to Official Government Copyright Site
http://lcweb.loc.gov/copyright/ -
When do copyrights expire and pass into the public domain http://www.unc.edu/~unclng/public-d.htm
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Copyright Website
http://www.benedict.com/
Fair Use
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Fair Use of Copyrighted Works: The Consortium for Educational Technology for University Systems
http://www.cetus.org/fairindex.html
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Stanford University Copyright and Fair Use Site
http://fairuse.stanford.edu
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Proposed Fair Use for Educational Multimedia (CONFU)
http://www.uspto.gov/web/offices/dcom/olia/confu/appendix.htm#j
Policy will require lawyer approval
Digital Millennium Copyright Act
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The actual act: http://www.loc.gov/copyright/legislation/dmca.pdf
Resources:
- http://www.educause.edu/issues/dmca.html.
- http://www.weblawresources.com/dmca_comp_art.htm.
- What the DMCA and the Copyright Term Extension Act Mean to the Library Community: Primer by Arnold Lutzker (posted 2/5/99) (http://www.arl.org/info/frn/copy/primer.html)
- http://www.slu.edu/DMCA/
- http://www.copyright.iupui.edu/
