Research Guides: Copyright and Fair Use: Best Practices

Avoiding Plagiarism

Ecstasy of Influence
It's Not Plagiarism. In the Digital Age, It's 'Repurposing.'
Plagiarism Tutorial
Provides examples that explain how to properly include in one’s own scholarly work information from other sources.
Plagiarism
Missouri Southern State University Instruction Guide

Permissions

Investigating the copyright status of a work

There are several ways to investigate whether a work is under copyright protection and, if so, the facts of the copyright. These are the main ones:

Examine a copy of the work for such elements as a copyright notice, place and date of publication, author and publisher. If the work is a sound recording, examine the disk, tape cartridge, or cassette in which the recorded sound is fixed, or the album cover, sleeve, or container in which the recording is sold.
Make a search of the Copyright Office catalogs and other records or have the Copyright Office make a search for you
Meets the cumulative effect test as defined below; and,
Each copy includes a notice of copyright

Fair Use Code of Best Practices

Code of Best Practices in Fair Use for Academic and Research Libraries
From the Association of Research Libraries (ARL), the Code of Best Practices in Fair Use for Academic and Research Libraries (PDF), is a clear and easy-to-use statement of fair and reasonable approaches to fair use developed by and for librarians who support academic inquiry and higher education. The Code was developed in partnership with the Center for Social Media and the Washington College of Law at American University.
Using Copyright Materials in the Classroom
Fair Use guidelines are a moving target. Use this resource to learn more.
Code of Best Practices in Fair Use for Scholarly Research in Communication
Created by the International Communication Association, funded by the International Communication Association and the Ford Foundation, through the Center for Social Media’s Future of Public Media.

Creating Online Content (faculty)

TEACH Act Flow Chart
One of many resources on the web created to help faculty sort out copyright issues. From Duke.

Resources for Online Writers

Codes of Best Practices, Center for Social Media
A collection of best practices for various materials, from poetry and dance to remixing video.
Chilling Effects Clearinghouse
"Have you received a letter asking you to remove information from a Web site...? Are you concerned about liability for information that someone else posted to your online forum? If so, this site is for you. Chilling Effects aims to help you understand the protections that the First Amendment and intellectual property laws give to your online activities...[we] encourage respect for intellectual property law, while frowning on its misuse to "chill" legitimate activity."
Bloggers Rights
From the Electronic Frontier Foundation. EFF "continues to confront cutting-edge issues defending free speech, privacy, innovation, and consumer rights today. From the beginning, EFF has championed the public interest in every critical battle affecting digital rights."
Legal Guide for Bloggers: Intellectual Property
Website Permissions
Chapter 6 of Stanford's Copyright & Fair Use Overview. "Since websites are becoming increasingly common targets for infringement lawsuits, we will focus on how website owners and people who manage websites (webmasters) can minimize their liability." Includes the list, "Five Ways to Stay Out of Trouble."

Using Video

Code of Best Practices in Fair Use for Online Video
From the Center for Social Media (centerforsocialmedia.org)
PERFORMANCE OF OR SHOWING FILMS IN THE CLASSROOM
PDF from ARL

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The Educator’s Guide to Copyright, Fair Use, and Creative Commons

What to do:

You may need to obtain copyright permission to:

Distribute a coursepack in print or electronic format
Post content on an e-learning system
Post content to an institution's intranet
Photocopy content for classroom use
Photocopy an article for library reserve
Borrow or lend material through ILL
Reproduce an out-of-print book
Use content in a private consulting engagement
Republish content in a dissertation
Use or republish content in university fundraising or recruiting, or in an exhibit
Conduct research for non-classroom use (e.g., during an instructor's private consulting engagement)

Books, articles, etc. that have been borrowed through interlibrary loan may NOT be placed on reserve

Personal copies of a book MAY be placed on reserve for your students to use