The library has many online resources that are relevant and useful for your class, and you can use these with your students. Any articles, ebooks, or other content from the library's databases can be linked to from your Canvas course without running afoul of copyright as we have already subscribed to have campus-wide access to these materials. Explore the tutorial on the left for information on how to properly include links or PDFs of library resources in your course.
If you're wondering about how to determine if your use of copyrighted materials is considered a fair use, watch this recorded Zoom presentation, recorded on March 24, 2020 about Copyright & Fair Use in the time of COVID-19.
When moving content to the online environment, faculty should be aware of ways in which to make the content as accessible for students as possible. Questions about accessibility should be directed to Sally Chadbourne.
The Copyright Book
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An accessible and comprehensive guide to copyright law, updated to include new developments in infringement, fair use, and the impact of digital technology. Through five editions since 1981, this book has offered the most comprehensive accessible guide available to all aspects of copyright law. Now, with the sixth edition, The Copyright Book has been thoroughly updated to cover copyright for the Internet age, discussing a range of developments in the law since 2000. The only book written for nonlawyers that covers the entire field of copyright law, it is essential reading for authors, artists, creative people in every medium, the companies that hire them, users of copyrighted material, and anyone with an interest in copyright law from a policy perspective. New material includes greatly expanded coverage of infringement and fair use, with detailed discussion of recent decisions, including the Grateful Dead, Google, and HathiTrust cases. The new edition considers such topics as open access, the defeat of the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA), file sharing, e-reserves, the status of "orphan works," and the latest developments under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA). The sixth edition also brings up to date The Copyright Book's plain English explanation of such fundamental topics as authorship and ownership; transfers and licenses of copyright; copyright notice; registration of copyright (including the new online registration and "preregistration" systems); the scope of rights included in copyright, and exceptions to those rights; "moral rights"; compulsory licenses; tax treatment of copyright; and international aspects of copyright law. As copyright issues grow ever more complicated, The Copyright Book becomes ever more indispensable.
