Copyright for Educators: Copyright Links

An excellent article on widespread copyright myths, including "if I don't charge for it, it's not infringement."

A tutorial for teachers and students on copyright. Take the quiz and see how much you know about copyright.

Copyright law as it is currently interpreted. Brochure by the US Copyright Office.

A good page with links to information on many copyright topics, including the text of the laws that apply, copyright forms, other universities copyright policies, and recent court cases.

Under certain conditions, educators can use materials without charge. Find out if your use is covered.

Use this tool to make your case for fair use of material. Then keep the resulting document in your files, in case you are ever asked to prove your use was fair.

There are some materials that aren't covered by copyright. This offers information on determining whether a work is covered by copyright.

Books written between 1923-1963 were required to re-register to renew their copyright protection. Some copyright holders did renew, some didn't. The ones who did, had to file a notice which was then published by the US Copyright Office. This is a searchable database of those renewal notices. If you don't find a title here (and it was written between 1923-1963) then copyright likely was not renewed, and it is now in the public domain.