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INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS & COPYRIGHT LAW | INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY & COPYRIGHT REGISTRATION
CYBER ETHICS | FAIR USE GUIDELINES | PLAGIARISM
CITING REFERENCES ON THE WEB | WEB GRAPHICS


COPYRIGHT ( top )

Copyleft vs. Copyright: A Marxist Critique
http://www.firstmonday.org/issues/issue7_3/soderberg/

Copyright Advisory Network
[a service provided by the American Library Association's Office for Information Technology Policy (OITP)]
http://www.librarycopyright.net/

Copyright and Authors
[This article provides a (very!) brief history of copyright and its philosophy]
http://firstmonday.org/issues/issue8_10/ewing/

Copyrights and Wrongs: A Basic, Easy to Understand Guide to Copyright
http://www.efuse.com/Plan/copyright.html

Copyright Crash Course
http://www.utsystem.edu/OGC/IntellectualProperty/cprtindx.htm

Copyright Resources Online
http://www.library.yale.edu/%7Eokerson/copyproj.html

Copyright Society of the USA (CSUSA)
[This is a nonprofit organization organized to advance the study of copyrightlaw]
http://www.csusa.org/

Copyright Term and the Public Domain in the US
http://www.copyright.cornell.edu/training/Hirtle_Public_Domain.htm

Copyrights In Cyberspace
http://www.nolo.com/encyclopedia/articles/pct/nn197.html

Copyright Workshop
http://www.cyberbee.com/copyrt.html

Copyscape
[Copyscape finds copies of your content on the Web. You can use
Copyscape to identify sites that have copied your content without permission]
http://www.copyscape.com/

Federal Relations and Information Policy
http://www.arl.org/info/index.html

Free Expression Policy Project
[Founded in 2000, the Project has continued to provide research reports and a host
of other valuable insights on copyright, free speech, and media democracy issues]
http://www.fepproject.org

Seeking Copyright Permissions for a Digital Age
http://www.dlib.org/dlib/february00/pritcher/02pritcher.html

Stanford Copyright & Fair Use
http://fairuse.stanford.edu/

Tales from the Public Domain :  Bound by Law ?
[Published by Duke University's Law School, "Bound by Law",  is a comic
book designed to educate people about copyright and fair use]
http://www.law.duke.edu/cspd/comics/digital.html

Ten Myths About Copyright
http://www.templetons.com/brad/copymyths.html

United States Copyright Office
http://lcweb.loc.gov/copyright/

U.S. Copyright Office-Orphan Works
[Copyrighted works whose owners are difficult or even impossible to locate]
http://www.copyright.gov/orphan/

What is Copyright Protection?
[This page covers the basic definitions regarding copyrights]
http://whatiscopyright.org/



DIGITAL MILLENNIUM COPYRIGHT ACT ( top )

Digital Millennium Copyright Act: U.S. Copyright Office Summary
http://www.loc.gov/copyright/legislation/dmca.pdf

Learning Cyberlaw in Cyberspace
http://www.cyberspacelaw.org/dogan/dogan5.html

What the Digital Millennium Copyright Act and the Copyright Term Extension Act Mean for the Library Community
http://www.arl.org/info/frn/copy/primer.html



NO ELECTRONIC THEFT ACT ( top )

Copyright Piracy and H.R. 2265, The No Electronic Theft (NET) Act
http://commdocs.house.gov/committees/judiciary/hju48724.000/hju48724_0f.htm

No Electronic Theft Act
http://socrates.berkeley.edu:7015/copyright/NETact.html

No Electronic Theft (NET) Act of 1997
http://www.virtualrecordings.com/net.htm

The 'No Electronic Theft' Act
http://www.gseis.ucla.edu/iclp/hr2265.html



INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS & COPYRIGHT LAW ( top )

Center for Information Policy (CIP)-University of Maryland
http://www.cip.umd.edu

Chilling Effects Clearinghouse
[Do you know your online rights? If no, this site is for you]
http://www.chillingeffects.org/

An Intellectual Property Law Primer For Multimedia and Web Developers
http://www.eff.org/pub/CAF/law/multimedia-handbook

A Radical Theory of Property
http://www.templetons.com/brad/iprop.html

Bitlaw: A Resource on Technology Law
http://www.bitlaw.com/index.html

Copyright and Intellectual Property
http://www.arl.org/info/frn/copy/copytoc.html

Intellectual Property: Database Protection and Access to Information
http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/281/5378/786

Internet Law Library
[
The Internet Law Library, authored exclusively by Martin H. Samson features extensive summaries
of over 370 court decisions shaping the law of the web]
http://www.phillipsnizer.com/internetlib2.htm

Learning Cyberlaw In Cyberspace
[
This site provides reading materials for students studying the law as it applies to activities in cyberspace]
http://www.cyberspacelaw.org/



INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY & COPYRIGHT REGISTRATION ( top )

Copyright Clearance Center
[
Providing the most complete and convenient access to copyright permission for millions of publications worldwide]
http://www.copyright.com/

IP Frontline: your intellectual property news
[is a free service open to both registered and anonymous users for their research and postings on IP related issues]
http://www.ip.com/ipFrontline/

The Intellectual Property and Technology Forum-Boston College Law School
http://www.bc.edu/bc_org/avp/law/st_org/iptf/



CYBER ETHICS ( top )

American Physical Society's Guidelines for Professional Conduct
http://ei.cs.vt.edu/~cs3604/lib/WorldCodes/APS.html

Ethical Guidelines of the American Mathematical Society
http://www.ams.org/secretary/ethics.html

Ethical Issues in Physics Workshop Proceedings
http://www.physics.emich.edu/mthomsen/ethtaboc.htm

On Being A Scientist: Responsible Conduct In Research
http://books.nap.edu/html/obas/



FAIR USE GUIDELINES ( top )

Fair Use: Overview and Meaning for Higher Education
http://www.cetus.org/fair5.html

TEACH Act Toolkit-Online Resource for Understanding Copyright and Distance Education
http://www.lib.ncsu.edu/scc/legislative/teachkit/

Regents Guide to Understanding Copyright and Educational Fair Use
[The guide provides illustrative examples of Fair Use and the legal background of copyright law]
http://www.peachnet.edu/admin/legal/copyright/copy.html

A Visit to Copyright Bay
[Is intended only to inform and entertain educators about copyright issues in a non-profit setting]
http://www.stfrancis.edu/cid/copyrightbay/

When Copying is 'OK'- The Fair Use Rule
http://www.nolo.com/encyclopedia/articles/pct/nn75.html



PLAGIARISM ( top )

Avoiding Plagiarism: Mastering the Art of Scholarship
http://sja.ucdavis.edu/sja/plagiarism.html

Cut and Paste Plagiarism: Preventing, Detecting and Tracking Online Plagiarism
http://alexia.lis.uiuc.edu/~janicke/plagiary.htm

How to Recognize Plagiarism
[School of Education-Indiana University]
http://www.indiana.edu/~istd/plagiarism_test.html

Plagiarism.org
[The online resource for people concerned with the growing problem of Internet plagiarism]
http://plagiarism.org/

Plagiarism and Anti plagiarism
http://newark.rutgers.edu/~ehrlich/plagiarism598.html

The Plagiarism Court : You be the Judge
http://library2.fairfield.edu/instruction/ramona/plugin.html

Plagiarism is No Laughing Matter
http://word.cs.earlham.edu/issues/XII/040398/opin841158a.html

Plagiarism Theme Page
[This "Theme Page" has links to information about Plagiarism]
http://www.cln.org/themes/plagiarism.html

Plagiarism: What It is and How to Recognize It and Avoid It
http://www.indiana.edu/~wts/pamphlets.shtml



CITING REFERENCES ON THE WEB ( top )

Citation Styles Online
http://www.bedfordstmartins.com/online/citex.html

Citing Electronic Sources in Research Papers and Bibliographies
http://www.library.wisc.edu/libraries/Memorial/citing.htm



WEB GRAPHICS ( top )

Copying Images, JPEGs, GIFs or BMPs
[This page outlines some legal traps involving copyright notice, modifying & displaying images, public domain images, and fair use]
http://www.pdimages.com/law/03.html-ssi

Finding Images on the Internet
http://www.philb.com/findimages.htm