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Copyright Resources

Electronic resources:

  • Copyright Clearance Center http://www.copyright.com
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    The place to go to get permission to reproduce copyrighted contents.

  • CONTU guidelines http://old.cni.org/docs/infopols/CONTU.html
  • CONFU’s final report http://www.uspto.gov/web/offices/dcom/olia/confu/conclu1.html
  • Copyright and Fair Use site at Stanford http://fairuse.stanford.edu
  • Copyright Crash course http://copyright.lib.utexas.edu/
    maintained by Georgia Harper, a guru in the field of copyright law.
  • MLA copyright management guidelines https://www.mlanet.org/discussion/medlib_l_faq.html
    Medical Library Association position statements and FAQs
  • AALL guidelines http://www.aallnet.org/mm/Advocacy/recommendedguidelines/policy-fair.html
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    These guidelines represent recommendations for “best practices” in all types of law libraries.

    Books:

  • The Library’s legal answer book by Mary Minow and Thomas A Lipinski (ALA, 2003)
  • Interlibrary Loan practices handbook by Virginia Boucher (2nd ed. ALA, 1997)
  • Libraries and copyright: a guide to copyright law in the 1990s by Laura N. Gasaway (Special libraries Association, 1994)
  • Complete Copyright: An Everyday Guide for Librarians by Carrie Russell (ALA, 2004)
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