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Copyright and Fair Use

Short List of Mostly University Copyright Pages

Copyright Crash Course, University of Texas Libraries; originally posted in 2001 on the University of Texas Office of General Council site; as of 2010 no longer associated with that site.

Copyright & Fair Use , Stanford University Libraries.

LII / Legal Information Institute: Copyright, Cornell University Law School.

Copyright at the University, University of Michigan.

Copyright Resources Project, Berkeley Art Museum - Pacific Film Archive 

How to be Copyright Compliant and Cost Conscious When Selecting and Disseminating Course Readings, a pdf formatted PowerPoint presentation from the Copyright Permissions Center at the University of Minnesota; 24 slides/pages; concrete examples are good, explanation of reasoning sometimes differs from other .edu sites.

Copyright Decision Map, Hosted by Dominican College, Map created by University of Minnesota Libraries (CC BY-NC 3.0); specific to the university but a reasonably general decision tree.

Smithsonian Institution: Terms of Use, an example of a non-profit policy statement trying to keep copyright use availability as broad as possible.

Perseus Copyrights, Tufts and Yale copyright policy statement for the Perseus Project, a second example of a non-profit copyright policy statement.

10 Big Myths About Copyright Explained, began as a Usenet posting in 1994; last updated October 2008.

Copyright Law: 12 Dos and Don'ts, from DailyBlogTips; using copyrighted material in blogs.