Research Guides: Copyright and Fair Use: Additional resources

Copyright Information

The ABC of Copyright (UNESCO)
Provides an international perspective on copyright.
Copyright and Fair Use (Stanford)
This guide from the Stanford University Libraries includes a blog as well as copyright FAQs, a copyright renewal database, and other resources and tools useful for learning about copyright.
Copyright Crash Course (UT Libraries)
This course is arranged into several sections that allow users to explore certain areas of copyright law individually or as a group. The Course was originally created with faculty in mind, but can be used by anyone who is interested in understanding and managing their copyrights.
Copyright Term and the Public Domain in the United States (Cornell)
This is a chart that lists the copyright status of works based on the date when they were published, their country of origin, and their format.
COPE (Committee on Publication Ethics) Cases
Database includes cases and advice given by COPE in areas such as authorship, data ownership, multiple submissions, and more.
The Durationator
The Durationator is a computer system that, given a few basic facts about a work, mechanically applies the law of the countries selected to those facts to determine the copyright status of the work.
U.S. Copyright Office Fair Use Index - Search Cases
You can search copyright cases and decisions from the Circuit Courts and the Supreme Court.

Copyright at UCI

UC Irvine Copyright Guidelines for Course Reserves

Legally Using Images

Copyright, Courses, and Research Libraries

Creative Commons

Creative Commons licenses allow creators to share their work while still retaining control of their creations. These licenses determine what can be done with a work and how it can be redistributed by people other than the creator. The work may be freely distributed under any of the licenses, but some licenses prevent modifications of the work (remixes) or forbid the work from being used for commercial purposes. The six Creative Commons licenses are:

Attribution (CC BY) - requires that redistributors credit the original author

Attribution-ShareAlike (CC BY-SA) - rrequires that derivative works credit the original author and are redistributed under a similar license

Attribution-NoDerivs (CC BY-ND) - requires that redistributors credit the original author and that the work may not be modified/remixed

Attribution-NonCommercial (CC BY-NC) - requires that redistributors credit the original author and that the work may not be used for commercial purposes

Attribution-NonCommercial-Share Alike (CC BY-NC-SA) - requires that redistributors credit the original author, that the work may not be used for commercial purposes, and that the work is redistributed under a similar license

Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs (CC BY-NC-ND) - requires that redistributors credit the original author, that the work may not be used for commercial purposes, that the work may not be modified/remixed

Creators of works, even of non-commercial attributed works, may opt to waive a license so that they can attempt to turn a profit if they desire.