Rebecca Crown Library and the Graduate School of Library and Information Science

present

Crown Library Assistantship Symposium Series (CLASS) 

Piracy, Copyright and File Sharing on College Campuses and Public Libraries 

on

Tuesday, March 18th, 2008 

4:30 pm-6:00 pm  

Lewis Lounge

 Copyright

• Crash Course in Copyright -- A detailed tutorial on all aspects of copyright policy, from the University of Texas.

  http://www.utsystem.edu/ogc/intellectualproperty/cprtindx.htm#top

• Crash Course: TEACH Act -- Information on the TEACH Act.

  http://www.utsystem.edu/ogc/intellectualproperty/teachact.htm#checklist

• Copyright Clearance Center

  http://www.copyright.com

Intellectual Property 

• The Intellectual Property Rights Issues Facing Self-Archiving -- Article by E. Gadd, C. Oppenheim, and S. Probets from D-Lib Magazine (September 2003).

  http://www.dlib.org/dlib/september03/gadd/09gadd.html

Licensing

• Liblicense -- Resource for information about licensing digital information sponsored by Yale University.

  http://www.library.yale.edu/~llicense/index.shtml

Legal Information

• Legal Information Institute: Law About ... Copyright -- From Cornell University's Legal Information Institute.

  http://www.law.cornell.edu/topics/copyright.html

• Copyright Advisory Network -- Sponsored by the American Library Association Office for Information Technology Policy.

          http://www.librarycopyright.net/

File-Sharing/ Digital Resources

•  Jackson, Gregory A. "The Digital Carrot, the Digital Stick." Chronicle of Higher Education 54, no. 14 (11/30 2007): B20-B20. 28029272.

           ARTICLE

• "The Slow Death of Digital Rights." Economist 385, no. 8550 (10/13 2007): 75-75. 27080075.

          ARTICLE

Other Information and Links

• Creative Commons--"Creative Commons provides free tools that let authors, scientists, artists, and educators easily mark their creative work with the freedoms they want it to carry. You can use CC to change your copyright terms from "All Rights Reserved" to "Some Rights Reserved."

• Public Lending Rights International--" Public Lending Right is the right of authors to receive payment for free public use of their works in libraries."

  http://www.plrinternational.com/

Please contact us at class@dom.edu with any questions.