COPYRIGHT

Copyright and Fair Use.
From Stanford University Libraries, this site attempts to make clear the term "fair use" and is a good starting point for examination of copyright law in the United States. It includes information on HR 3531, the Database Investment and Intellectual Property Antipiracy Act of 1996, and the World Intellectual Property Association (WIPO) database proposal.

Copyright Law Materials.
From Cornell Law School, this site contains links to legal documents dealing with copyright issues.

Copyright Management Center.
From Indiana University, this site contains a wealth of information on Fair Use Issues for schools and universities.

Copyright Slider.
From the American Library Association (ALA), a sliding scale to help you determine whether a publication is protected by copyright.

Crash Course in Copyright.
From the University of Texas, everything you ever wanted to know about copyright. It even includes a Crash Course Tutorial for faculty to use to learn Copyright basics, especially in the distance learning context.

Electronic Frontier Foundation.
More information and current actions involving intellectual property laws.

Intellectual Property Forum.
This site has been online since March 1997. It provides information about intellectual property law including patent, trademark and copyright. Resources include comprehensive links, general information, space for professionals to publish articles and forums for discussing related issues.

Know Your Copy Rights: Using Copyrighted Works in Academic Settings.
Includes "Uses in the Traditional Face-to-Face Classroom" and "Uses in the Online Classroom / Course Management System" as well as a printable pdf booklet of copyright FAQs.

U.S. Copyright Office.
Has all U.S. Copyright Office application forms, frequently requested circulars, and announcements, proposed and final regulations.

Reproductions of Copyrighted Works by Educators and Librarians - Circ 21

Fair Use - FL102

PATENTS

Delphion Intellectual Property Network.
To search, view and analyze patent collections worldwide.

Google Patents.
Google Patent Search covers the entire collection of patents made available by the USPTO—from patents issued in the 1790s through those issued within the last few months.

Patent Law Links.
Includes links to case law, search engines, worldwide patent office sites, related forms and much more.

Patent Law Materials.
From Cornell Law School, this site contains links to legal documents dealing with patent law.

U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.
Homepage of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. Go directly to the U.S. Patent Database search page. Includes both the US Patent Bibliographic Database (a freely searchable database of front page information from US patents issued from 1/1/76 to 6/2/98), and the AIDS Patent Database (a freely searchable database of the full text and images of AIDS related patents issued by the US, Japanese and European patent offices).