Finding and Using Media

Definition and brief info. Verify info elsewhere.

Brief intro to copyright in higher education. From the Copyright Clearance Center.

The full text of the law, section by section.

From the Harvard University Office of Scholarly Communications.

Lots of great documents explaining copyright.

"A code of best practices in fair use devised specifically by and for the academic and research library community." Thirty-four page document from January 2012.

"Copyright protects artworks of all kinds, audiovisual materials,
photographs, and texts (among other things) against unauthorized use by
others, but it is subject to a number of exceptions designed to assure space for
future creativity. Of these, fair use is the most important and the most flexible.
The Code describes common situations in which there is a consensus within the
visual arts community about practices to which this copyright doctrine should
apply and provides a practical and reliable way of applying it."

This document is a code of best practices that helps creators, online providers, copyright holders, and others interested in the making of online video interpret the copyright doctrine of fair use. Fair use is the right to use copyrighted material without permission or payment under some circumstances.

The Copyright Crash Course (CCC) was originally created with faculty in mind, but can be used by anyone who is interested in understanding and managing their copyrights.