Fair Use in the Digital Environment: A Research Guide

Stanford University Libraries Copyright and Fair Use

This frequently referenced site includes an overview of copyright, primary- and secondary-reference materials, resources for librarians, an current news and commentary. In addition to original content provided by Stanford faculty and staff, the site features an Internet- and Web-Resources page with hundreds of links to freely available Internet resources, including about sixty links to journals and collections that regularly publish on fair-use issues.

Berkeley Digital Library Sunsite Copyright, Intellectual Property Rights and Licensing Issues

The University of California Berkeley’s Digital Library Sunsite is both a digital-library program and a collection of resources for others interested in developing digital libraries. Their Copyright and Intellectual-Property Rights site collects a wealth of resources similar in scope to the University at Albany’s. Current awareness, references, and reports are all featured. Several of the sections link to resources dealing with fair use of digital materials.

United States Copyright Office

This is the official Web site of the U.S. Copyright Office, administered by the Library of Congress. It covers an enormous range of information, including copyright basics and frequently asked questions, the text of the copyright law itself, a registry of copyrighted works, instructions for copyrighting your work, and statements to Congress by the Register of Copyrights. It also includes a page on the meaning and usage of fair use, as well as news and links to other Internet resources.

World Intellectual Property Organization

International intellectual property treaties have been the impetus behind many of the most significant developments in U.S. copyright law i recent years. The WIPO Web site offers a wealth of freely accessible content, including the text of treaties and national laws, an intellectual property handbook, press releases and meeting information, and an electronic bookshop and Intellectual-Property Digital Library.

References

1. Paul Goldstein, Copyright’s Highway: From Gutenberg to the Celestial Jukebox, rev. ed. (Stanford, Calif.: Stanford Law and Politics/Stanford Univ. Pr., 2003), 31.
2. Kenneth Crews, Copyright, Fair Use, and the Challenge for Universities: Promoting the Progress of Higher Education (Univ. of Chicago Pr., 1993), 4.
3. Abe A. Goldman, “Copyright as it Affects Libraries: Legal Implications,” in Encyclopedia of Library and Information Science, vol. 6, eds. Allen Kent and Harold Lancour (New York: Dekker, 1971), 72.
4. West’s Encyclopedia of American Law, 2nd ed. (Detroit: Thomson/Gale, 2005), 203; J. Thomas McCarthy, Roger E. Schechter, and David J. Franklyn, McCarthy’s Desk Encyclopedia of Intellectual Property, 3rd ed. (Washington, D.C.: Bureau of National Affairs, 2004), 166.
5. Goldstein, Copyright’s Highway,171.

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