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•	Association of Research Libraries -Copyright and Intellectual Property http://www.arl.org/sc/copyright/index.shtml The Association of Reserch Libraries has produced this website to assist the research and higher education communities understand copyright and its impact on higher education.
•	Chilling Effects Clearinghouse http://www.chillingeffects.org This site is a joint project of the Electronic Frontier Foundation and Harvard, Stanford, Berkeley, University of San Francisco, and the University of Maine, George Washington School of Law, and Santa Clara University School of Law clinics. It includes information on a number of topics including copyright and the DMCA and linking to web resources
•	CONFU: The Conference on Fair Use http://www.utsystem.edu/OGC/IntellectualProperty/CONFU.htm The Conference on Fair Use (CONFU) attempted to find agreement on the scope of fair use in various electronic contexts. This document reviews the topics addressed and the options which were explored.
•	Copyright Advisory Office - Columbia University http://www.copyright.columbia.edu/ This site provides information to the academic community in order to help faculty members, librarians, administrators, students, and others to learn and apply copyright principles of importance to their work. address the relationship between copyright law and the research, teaching, and service activities of a university.
•	Copyright and Intellectual Property http://www.ala.org/ala/washoff/woissues/copyrightb/copyright.cfm The American Library Association's website includes information on copyright basics, fair use, copyright and learning, copyright and research, as well as copyright issues for libraries and copyright in relation to the Internet.
•	Copyright Law of the United States http://www.copyright.gov/title17/ Full-text of the Copyright Law of the United States and related laws contained in Title 17 of the U.S. Code. (PDF and HTML versions available)
•	Crash Course in Copyright http://www.utsystem.edu/OGC/IntellectualProperty/cprtindx.htm The University of Texas has developed a very extensive web resource addressing copyright information for print, multimedia, and digital materials.
•	Creative Commons http://creativecommons.org/ Use this site to license your creative work or to search for other licensed works.
•	EducauseCONNECT http://connect.educause.edu/browse/645?time=1202764578 This link takes users to a browseable index of topics related to the use of technology and education. There is a section on copyright infringement, as Open Source. See the information on the DCMA, the Digital Millenium Copyright Act, http://connect.educause.edu/term_view/DMCA.
•	Fair Use Checklist http://www.copyright.columbia.edu/copyright/?q=fair-use-checklist Columbia University has a checklist that will assist in determining fair use. The page does have button that will allow uers to easily print the list. Indiania University-Purdue University-Indianapolis has a similar Fair Use Checklist that is also available in PDF – see http://www.copyright.iupui.edu/checklist.htm.
•	How I Learned to Love FAIR USE or how to bring a $300,000 lawsuit down to $0 if you’re a library, archive, or nonprofit educational institution http://fairuse.stanford.edu/commentary_and_analysis/2003_07_minow.html Written by Mary Minnow, JD, AMLS, and published by the Stanford University Copyright and Fair Use Center, this article boils the Fair Use guidelines down and gives good examples. There is a brief, but helpful appendix and set of Web links.
•	Library Copyright Alliance http://www.librarycopyrightalliance.org/index.htm The Library Copyright Alliance is a group of five major library professional associations who are concerned with copyright issues. This is a good place for breaking news about copyright – it is possible to read bills submitted dealing with the topic.
•	Medical Education Resource for Instructional Technology http://peir2.path.uab.edu/merit/ Created by the Pathology Education Instructional Resource (PEIR) faculty at the University of Alabama – Birmingham, this resource presents a broad overview of many copyright issues.
•	Resources for Teaching Faculty: Frequently Asked Questions www.knowyourcopyrights.org/resourcesfac/faq This resource, developed for the Association of Research Libraries, includes answers to questions that frequently arise regarding educational use of copyrighted materials.
•	U.S. Copyright Office Home Page http://www.copyright.gov/ This site addresses basic information on copyright, including frequently asked questions (FAQs), directions on how to register a work for copyright, and how to search for copyright records. Also covered are links to laws and current legislation on copyright issues. Factsheets on common questions, including fees for registering for copyright, international copyright, etc. are linked to the site.
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