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Copyright
Law & General Information
World Intellectual Property Organization Geneva (WIPO)
U.S. Copyright Law
- Copyright Law of the United States of America (Contained in Title 17 of the United States Code, with Amendments to Title 17 since 1976 )
- Digital Millennium Copyright Act (Several copyright bills have passed the Congress this Fall, including the Digital Millennium Copyright Act)
- Summary of Digital Millennium Copyright Act (from the U.S. Copyright Office, in PDF format)
- Digital Millennium Copyright Act Status & Analysis (from the Association of Research Libraries)
General Information
- US Copyright Office
- A Crash Course in Copyright from the University of Texas
- Copyright Basics from the US Copyright Office
- Copyright Resources for Schools and Libraries (Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction)
- The Copyright Website
- How to Investigate the Copyright Status of a Work (Circular 22 from the US Copyright Office)
- Reproductions of Copyrighted Works by Educators and Librarians (Circular 21 from the US Copyright Office, in PDF format)
- 10 Big Myths about copyright explained
- University of Texas System Administration, Office of the General Counsel's Copyright Management Center
- U.S. Copyright Office Records (database of items registered for copyright since 1978)
- WATCH (Writers, Artists, and Their Copyright Holders) (a database of the names and addresses of copyright holders or contact persons for English-language authors whose papers are housed, in whole or in part, in libraries and archives in North America and the United Kingdom---to provide information to scholars on whom to contact for permission to quote from or publish previously unpublished manuscripts.)
- White House Information Infrastructure Task Force (IITF): Intellectual Property and the National Information Infrastructure: The Report of the Working Group on Intellectual Property Rights
- Yahoo - Government: Law: Intellectual Property (links to Internet resources on copyright and intellectual property from one of the major Web directories)