Instructor Resources: Copyright: More Resources

A comprehensive guide to many aspects of copyright and copyright infringement from Ivy Tech Community College Libraries.

Great resources from Association of Research Libraries (ARL), especially the Code of Best Practices.

Includes Copyright Genie, the Fair Use Evaluator, the Public Domain slider, the Section 108 spinner, and the Exceptions for Instructors eTool are all nifty tools provided by this project of the American Library Association.

The purpose of this unit is to provide faculty with guidance about the reproduction and distribution of their work and the work of others in the course of teaching and publication of their work.

Tutorial for faculty from the University of Minnesota Library.

Creative Commons is a nonprofit organization that helps overcome legal obstacles to the sharing of knowledge and creativity to address the world’s pressing challenges. CC provides Creative Commons licenses and public domain tools that give every person and organization in the world a free, simple, and standardized way to grant copyright permissions for creative and academic works; ensure proper attribution; and allow others to copy, distribute, and make use of those works.

For works published in the U.S.A.

University of Minnesota checklist-like tool to help you think through your fair use analysis.

Developed by the ARL and the Center for Social Media, the Code of Best Practices in Fair Use for Academic and Research libraries offers a clear and easy-to-use statement of fair and reasonable approaches to fair use developed by and for librarians.

Infographic displaying important fair use concepts from the Association of Research Libraries.