Educators: Schools & Libraries

Teachers, schools and libraries make extensive use of copyrighted materials.  Below are resources to help make sure those uses are legal.

Copyright

• Circular 21 - Reproductions of Copyrighted Works by Educators and Librarians (PDF only) by US Copyright Office. 
• Fair Use: Overview and Meaning for Higher Education, Kenneth D. Crews
• A Fair-Use Case Study: Using Copyrighted Materials On The World Wide Web, Dwayne K. Buttler.
• Copyright Law & Graduate Research: New Media, New Rights, and Your New Dissertation Kenneth D. Crews.
• The Copyright Law for Music Educators
• Off-Air Recording for Educational Purposes by Anna Sylvester.
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• Music Library Association: Statement on the Copyright Law and Fair use in Music
• Music Library Association: Statement on the Digital Transmission of Electronic Reserves
• Guidelines for Educational Use of Music
• Fair Use Guidelines For Educational Multimedia
• Agreement on Guidelines for Classroom Copying in Not-For-Profit Educational Institutions with Respect to Books and Periodicals
• Guidelines for Off-Air Recording of Broadcast Programming for Educational Purposes
• Guidelines for Library Reserves

University Copyright Policies

• Sample University Copyright Ownership Policies 
• CIE: Columbia Innovation Enterprise. Statement of Policy on Proprietary Rights in the Intellectual Products of Faculty Activity
• Queen's University Copyright Policy by Association of Universities and Colleges of Canada and the Canadian Association of Research Libraries. 
  A simple guide for Canada's universities to the complex world of copyright, fair dealing and collective licensing. 
• Triangle Research Libraries Net