Outline of Resources
Breaking News
General Resources 29 September 2006	File Sharing
The DMCA Controversy	Eldred v. Ashcroft
Fair Use 30 November 2006	Guidelines for Copying 6 April 2006
Plagiarism	Controversies & Opinions 24 July 2006

The Latest News About Copyright

• Copyright Office issues "Orphan Works" report
  http://www.copyright.gov/orphan/
  
  
• Groskter Calls it Quits http://www.nytimes.com/2005/11/08/technology/08grokster.html
  
  
• U.S. Copyright Office and "Orphan" Works
  http://www.copyright.gov/orphan/
  
  
• Supreme Court Opinion, MGM v. Grokster
  http://wid.ap.org/scotus/pdf/04-480P.ZO.pdf
  
  
• The Family Entertainment and Copyright Act of 2005 increases penalties for movie piracy
  http://www.govtrack.us/congress/bill.xpd?bill=s109-167
  See also the following news report
  
  
• University student sentenced to prison for copyright violations
  http://kvoa.com/Global/story.asp?S=2934754
  
  
• Entertainment Companies Ask Supreme Court to Overturn "Betamax Rule"
  http://www.eff.org/IP/P2P/MGM_v_Grokster/20041008_Grokster_final_petition.pdf
  
  
• INDUCE Bill dies in Senate http://msnbc.msn.com/id/6208947/
  
  
• Kahle v. Ashcroft
  http://cyberlaw.stanford.edu/about/cases/kahle_v_ashcroft.shtml
  
  
• Hollywood Wins DVD-Copying Case
  http://www.wired.com/news/digiwood/0,1412,62375,00.html/wn_ascii
  
  
• A new Pew Internet and American Life study shows that 2/3 of those who download files are unconcerned about copyright issues (PDF format)
  http://www.pewinternet.org/reports/pdfs/PIP_Copyright_Memo.pdf
  
  
• United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) report on Technological Protection Systems for Digitized Copyrighted Works, as required by the TEACH act of 2002. (PDF format)
  http://www.uspto.gov/web/offices/dcom/olia/teachreport.pdf
  
  
• An analysis of the TEACH (Technology, Education and Copyright Harmonization) Act, which became law on 2 November 2002. The text of the statue is available from the Library of Congress, and a tool kit to explore the implications of the TEACH act is being developed by North Carolina State University. Laura Gasaway has developed a chart that compares the provisions of the TEACH act with the old section 110 of the Copyright Act
  http://www.ala.org/washoff/teach.html
  http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/F?c107:7:./temp/~c107g3ldws:e484010:
  http://www.lib.ncsu.edu/scc/legislative/teachkit/
  http://www.unc.edu/~unclng/TEACH.htm
  
  

General Resources for Copyright and Intellectual Property

Getting Started

• 10 Big Myths about Copyright Explained
  
  
• CyberTelecom: Copyright
  
  

  The Law of Copyright and Official Sites (U.S. and International)
  
  

• U.S. Copyright Office at the Library of Congress
  http://lcweb.loc.gov/copyright/
  
  
• The U.S. Copyright Law (1976, amended)
  (See especially chapter one, sections 106, 107, 108, 109 and 110)
  http://lcweb.loc.gov/copyright/title17/
  
  
• The Digital Millennium Copyright Act Report from the Library of Congress
  http://www.loc.gov/copyright/reports/studies/dmca/dmca_study.html
  (requires Adobe Acrobat reader)
• Report from the Library of Congress on DMCA exemptions
  http://www.copyright.gov/1201/
  
  
• Copyright Issues in Digital Media from the Congressional Budget Office
  http://www.cbo.gov/showdoc.cfm?index=5738&sequence=0
  
  
• "Copyright and the Mouse: House Disney's Mickey Mouse Changed the World" (good overview of recent revisions of the law, corporate views and subsequent controversies) http://www.digitaljournal.com/news/?articleID=4031
  
  
• U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee: Protecting Creative Works in a Digital Age
  http://judiciary.senate.gov/special/feature.cfm
  
  
• Collection of National Copyright Laws (from UNESCO)
  http://portal.unesco.org/culture/en/ev.php@URL_ID=14076&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECTION=201.html
  
  
• WIPO (World Intellectual Property Organization)
  http://www.wipo.org/index.html.en
  
  
• Intellectual Property on the Internet: A Survey of Issues (from WIPO)
  http://ecommerce.wipo.int/survey/
  
  
• W3C (World Wide Web Consortium) Intellectual Property Policy Page
  http://www.w3.org/IPR/
  
  

Copyright Resources from Educational Institutions

• Baruch College's Interactive Guide to Using Copyrighted Media
  http://www.baruch.cuny.edu/tutorials/copyright/
  
  
• Washington State University's web site on copyright and higher education
  http://publishing.wsu.edu/copyright/index.html
  
  
• The University of Tennessee's General Counsel's Web page
  http://toltec.lib.utk.edu/~gco/copyright.html
  
  
• The Copyright Site is the product of a class in instructional technology at the University of Alabama
  http://thecopyrightsite.org/
  
  
• MIT Communications Forum's Copyright Series (audio playbacks)
  http://web.mit.edu/comm-forum/index.html
  
  
• A listserv devoted to Digital Copyright issues has been created at the University of Maryland's University College. Subscribe by sending to listproc@listserv.umuc.edu the following message: Subscribe Digital-Copyright John Doe [if your name is John Doe; otherwise use your own name]
  
  
• Copyright Information for Faculty from the University of Tennessee Libraries is a good compendium of straight-forward help about the complex world of copyright in the digital age
  http://www.lib.utk.edu/plan/copyrt/
  
  
• University of Texas Office of General Counsel has developed a crash course in copyright
  http://www.utsystem.edu/OGC/IntellectualProperty/cprtindx.htm
  
  
• The Copyright Management Center at Indiana University - Purdue University Indianapolis
  http://www.copyright.iupui.edu/
  
  
• CNI Copyright Basics (from Educause)
  http://www.cni.org/docs/infopols/US.Copyright.Basics.html
  
  
• Yale University's Copyright Resources is a major collection of copyright sites
  http://www.library.yale.edu/~okerson/copyproj.html
  
  
• Copyright for Educators
  http://www.lesley.edu/faculty/kholmes/SSECcopyright.html
  
  
• Copyright Reources on the Internet from the Groton, CT, public schools
  http://groton.k12.ct.us/mts/pt2a.htm
  
  
• Copyright and K-12: Who Pays in the Network Era?
  http://www.ed.gov/Technology/Futures/rothman.html

Other Resources

• Copyright Society of the USA sponsored by the Copyright Society of America
  
  
• Current Copyright Readings
  http://copyrightreadings.blogspot.com/
  
  
• Library Digitization Projects and Copyright, by Mary Minow
  http://www.llrx.com/features/digitization.htm
  
  
• Copyfight: The Politics of IP, an online clearinghouse for copyright news
  http://www.corante.com/copyfight/
  
  
• Frequently Asked Questions about Copyright (from CENDI)
  http://www.dtic.mil/cendi/publications/00-3copyright.html
  
  
• The American Library Association's Copyright, Libraries and the Public
  http://copyright.ala.org/
  
  
• The Copyright Website has some interesting examples to examine
  http://www.benedict.com/
  
  
• Chilling Effects Clearinghouse
  A joint project of the EFF and Harvard, Stanford, Berkeley and University of San Francisco law schools
  http://www.chillingeffects.org/
  
  
• Digital Future Coalition
  http://www.dfc.org
  
  
• Copyright Resources from IFLA (International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions)
  http://www.ifla.org/II/cpyright.htm
  
  
• European Copyright User Platform
  http://www.eblida.org/ecup/
  
  
• EFF's (Electronic Frontier Foundation) Law Primer
  http://www.eff.org/pub/CAF/law/ip-primer
  
  
• Trademark Wars on the Web
  http://www.web.net/~misha/trademark.html
  
  
• Copyright Clearance Center helps institutions and businesses manage copyright cooperation
  http://www.copyright.com/
  
  
• Copyright in the Digital Workspace (from the Copyright Clearance Center)
  http://www.copyright.com/media/pdfs/Digital_Workspace_Report.pdf
  
  

The File Sharing Controversy

• Grokster Calls it Quits
  http://www.nytimes.com/2005/11/08/technology/08grokster.html
  
  
• Supreme Court Opinion, MGM v. Grokster
  http://wid.ap.org/scotus/pdf/04-480P.ZO.pdf
  
  
• Future Issues Beyond File Sharing
  http://writ.news.findlaw.com/hilden/20050524.html
  
  
• Hulk Pirate Sentenced for Felony Copyright Infringment
  http://www.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=SVBIZINK2.story&STORY=/www/story/09-26-2003/0002025056&EDATE=FRI%20Sep%2026%202003,%2006:53%20PM
  
  
• A new Pew Internet and American Life study shows that 2/3 of those who download files are unconcerned about copyright issues (PDF format)
  http://www.pewinternet.org/reports/pdfs/PIP_Copyright_Memo.pdf
  
  
• Motion Picture Industry warns about downloading files
  http://news.com.com/2100-1026_3-5051653.html
  
  
• RIAA "hit list" of named file swappers
  http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/2003-07-21-swappers_x.htm
  
  
• New technology helps hunt down file swappers
  http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2003/07/21/BU289815.DTL&type=tech
  
  
• Latest Harry Potter volume scanned and swapped
  http://news.com.com/2100-1025-1020984.html?tag=nl
  
  
• RIAA goes after small file swappers
  http://news.com.com/2100-1027-1020876.html?tag=nl
  
  
• Judge Rules File-Sharing Companies Do NOT Violate Copyright
  http://chronicle.com/free/2003/04/2003042802t.htm
  
  
• NJ Institute of Technology Bans File Sharing
  http://chronicle.com/free/2003/05/2003050101t.htm
  
  
• RIAA to File Swappers: Let's Chat
  http://news.com.com/2100-1025-998825.html
  
  
• Sotware Bullet to Kill Music Piracy (from New York Times: free registration required)
  http://www.nytimes.com/2003/05/04/business/04MUSI.html
  
  
• Colleges Cracking Down on Downloads
  http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/techpolicy/2003-04-27-download_x.htm
  
  
• Three Students Arrested for Music Piracy
  http://news.com.com/2100-1027-998132.html
  
  
• Student Reaction to RIAA crackdown on downloading music files
  http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/techpolicy/2003-04-10-music-share_x.htm
  
  
• RIAA and Students Settle File Sharing Lawsuit
  http://www.nandotimes.com/technology/story/875081p-6102830c.html
  
  
• Penn State to Crack Down on Students' Copyright Violations
  http://chronicle.com/free/2003/04/2003040201t.htm
  
  
• Copyright Agreement between Entertainment and Technology industries
  http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A62059-2003Jan15.html
  More on Copyright Agreement between Tech and Entertainment Industries
  http://www.law.com/servlet/ContentServer?pagename=OpenMarket/Xcelerate/View&c=LawArticle&cid=1042568651493&t=LawArticleTech
  
  
• Illegal File-Sharing and Collegiate Legal Liability, from The Chronicle of Higher Education
  http://chronicle.com/free/2002/10/2002101401t.htm
  
  
  

The DMCA Controversy

• Proposed "Super-DMCA" state laws. See also the archive of proposals maintained by the EFF
  http://www.freedom-to-tinker.com/superdmca.html
  http://www.eff.org/IP/DMCA/states/
  
  
• Unintended Consequences: Four Years Under the DMCA (a report from the EFF)
  http://www.eff.org/IP/DMCA/20030102_dmca_unintended_consequences.html
  
  
• Legislation (DMCRA) to revise DMCA
  http://interactionlaw.com/interactionlaw/id9.html
  
  
• Will the DMCA's anti-circumvention clause be used to stop reserach into software bugs? See Hewlett-Packard's attempt (now rescinded) to do just that.
  http://news.com.com/2100-1023-947325.html
  
  
• The Librarian of Congress has issued the final schedule for webcasting rates for sound recordings and numerous radio statsions are appealing that ruling
  http://www.copyright.gov/carp/webcasting_rates_final.html
  http://www.digmedia.org/webcasting/appeal.html
  
  
• The IEEE jettisoned its policy requiring authors to adhere to the DMCA
  http://chronicle.com/free/2002/04/2002041802t.htm
  
  
• New legislation has been introduced in both houses of Congress to mandate copy protection through technology
  
  
  • See the preliminary text for the Consumer Broadband and Digital Television Promotion Act (CBDTPA), S. 2048
    
    
  • The EFF is mobilizing opposition to the CBDTPA
    
    
• Hearings of the Senate Commerce Committee on Digital Content Copyright
  
  
• On 20 February 2002 a committee (the Copyright Arbitration Royalty Panel, or CARP) of the Library of Congress's Copyright Office issued a report on web-casting rates for re-broadcast of copyrighted material over the Internet.
  
  
• The latest Report on Exemptions to the DMCA from the Library of Congress
  http://www.copyright.gov/1201/
  
  
  

Eldred v. Ashcroft

• The Eric Eldred Act, a proposed law to overturn the Supreme Court decision and "reclaim" the public domain. See also the interview with the chief architect, Lawrence Lessig
  http://eldred.cc/
  http://news.com.com/2008-1082_3-1013830.html
  
  
• Supreme Court Upholds Copyright Term Extension in Eldred et al. v. Ashcroft
  http://www.law.com/servlet/ContentServer?pagename=OpenMarket/Xcelerate/View&c=LawArticle&cid=1042568656706&t=LawArticleIP
  See also
  http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A63196-2003Jan15.html
  The Court's Official Opinion (.pdf format)
  http://www.supremecourtus.gov/opinions/02pdf/01-618.pdf
  
  
• Transcript of Oral Arguments in the Eldred et al. v. Ashcroft Case
  http://www.aaronsw.com/2002/eldredTranscript
  
  
• Four Remaining Questions About Copyright Law After Eldred
  http://www.gigalaw.com/articles/2003-all/yu-2003-02-all.html
  
  
• The Eldred v. Ashcroft lawsuit, challenging the copyright term extension act of 1998, has a new website.
  http://eldred.cc/
  
  
• On 19 February 2002 the Supreme Court of the United States agreed to hear the case Eldred v. Ashcroft, challenging the constitutionality of the Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act of 1998 -- for background on that case, see the the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard.
  
  
  

The "Fair Use" Exemption

Section 107 of the 1976 Copyright Act outlines the rather precise criteria necessary for the reproduction without permission or fee payment of a copyright protected work. "Fair Use" almost always exists in an educational context -- but be warned: court decisions appear to be giving increasing weight to the fourth criterion -- impact on the market value of the protected work. Recently, the "Fair Use" exemption has become a focus of controversy in the post-DMCA environment -- see Siva Vaidhyanathan's "Copyright as Cudgel" from the online Chronicle of Higher Education.

• New Exemptions from DMCA 30 November 2006
  http://www.copyright.gov/1201/
  
  
• The Fair Use Network
  http://fairusenetwork.org/
  
  
• JOLT Symposium 2003 -- Copyright and Fair Use: Present and Future Prospects
  http://jolt.law.harvard.edu/p.cgi/symposium/main2003.html
  
  
• Stanford University's Fair Use Page
  http://fairuse.stanford.edu/
  
  
• A Fair Use Checklist developed by Dwayne K. Buttler
  http://www.copyright.iupui.edu/checklist.htm
  
  
• Fair Use Guidelines from CETUS (Consortium for Educational Technology in University Systems)
  http://www.cetus.org/fairindex.html
  
  
• The Creative Commons launched on 15 May 2002 to serve as a clearinghouse for public domain works.
  http://creativecommons.org/
  
  
• Google's Library Project as "Fair Use"
  http://chronicle.com/free/2005/08/2005081201t.htm
  
  
• Lawrence Lessig's take on the Google Book Search Controversy
  http://www.lessig.org/blog/archives/003292.shtml
  
  

Guidelines for Copying for Educational Purposes

Guidelines are just that -- useful suggestions that, while helpful, do *not* have the force of law. The "safe harbors" that these guidelines suggest may -- or may not -- be recognized by any given court. Follow these guidelines with some confidence, but not total assurance.

• Campus Copyright Rights and Responsibilities: A Basic Guide to Policy Considerations 6 April 2006
  http://www.aaupnet.org/aboutup/issues/Campus_Copyright.pdf
  
  
• Guidelines for Classroom Copying of Books and Periodicals
  http://www3.utsystem.edu/ogc/IntellectualProperty/clasguid.htm
  
  
• Guidelines for Off-Air Recordings of Broadcast Programming for Educational Purposes
  http://www.musiclibraryassoc.org/Copyright/guiderec.htm
  
  
• Fair Use Guidelines for Educational Multimedia
  http://www.indiana.edu/~ccumc/mmfumas/
  
  
• CONTU Guidelines on Photocopying under Interlibrary Loan Agreements
  http://www.cni.org/docs/infopols/CONTU.html
  
  
• CONFU -- The 1996-97 Conference on Fair Use attempted to negotiate differences between publishers (representing owners of copyrights) and users of copyrighted materials in order to develop new guidelines for the digital age -- it failed
  http://www.utsystem.edu/OGC/IntellectualProperty/confu.htm
  
  
  

Plagiarism

• Christine Pelton, a high school teacher in Kansas, resigns when the local school board overrules her punishment of students who plagiarized from Internet
  
  http://www.kansascity.com/mld/kansascity/2561083.htm
  
  http://www.kansas.com/mld/kansas/news/state/2574467.htm