Interested in learning more? Here are some exceptional resources to learn about copyright or other caselaw.
General Legal Guides
- Law Research Guide (UMass Library “Lib Guide”) – Guide to library resources for searching law and policy-related materials.
Copyright & Related Law Sites
- University of Texas, “Copyright Crash Course” by Georgia Harper
- Stanford University Libraries, Summaries of Fair Use Cases
- Fair Use Network, Major Cases (includes trademark and copyright cases relating to free expression)
- Peter Hirtle (Cornell), Copyright Term and the Public Domain in the United States (chart; updated annually)
- IT Law Wiki
- BitLaw
Scholarly Communication and Copyright in the Academy
- ARL (Association of Research Libraries), Advancing Scholarly Communication
- ACRL (Association of College & Research Libraries), Scholarly Communication Toolkit
- CIC (Committee on Institutional Cooperation), Scholarly Communication at CIC
- SPARC (Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition)
- Keep Your Copyright (Columbia Law School)
Other University’s Scholarly Communication Websites
- University of California – Scholarly Communication Officers Group, and Reshaping Scholarly Communication
- University of California, Berkeley, Scholarly Communication
- Columbia University, Scholarly Communication Program
- Cornell University, Copyright Information Center
- Duke University, Scholary Communications (Kevin Smith blog)
- Harvard University, Office for Scholarly Communication
- University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Scholarly Communication
- University of Michigan, Library Copyright Office
- University of Minnesota, Transforming Scholarly Communication
- MIT Libraries, Scholarly Publishing
- Penn State University, Publishing and Curation Services
- Stanford University, Copyright and Fair Use Center
- University of Tennessee, Scholarly Communication Incorporating Digital Library Initiatives
- University of Wisconsin, Scholarly Communication and Publishing
Useful Videos
- Scientist Meets Publisher by aoholcombe (Sept. 21, 2011)
- More videos, from the University of Oregon: Scholarly Communication Videos