Resources

The following is a list of copyright resources available at Bucks County Community College or available through the web.

Pamphlets

Questions & answers on copyright for the campus community. Washington, DC : Association of American Publishers ; Oberlin, OH : National Association of College Stores ; Washington, DC : Software & Information Industry Association, c2006.7th ed.

Individual copies for BCCC faculty and staff are available from the Copyright Liaison.

Books

Complete copyright : an everyday guide for librarians / Carrie Russell [editor] ; with contributions from Dwayne K. Buttler...[et al.] ; illustration[,] Jessica Abel. [Chicago]: American Library Association, c2004. (REF 346.73 C737 2004)

Copyright law of the United States of America : and related laws contained in Title 17 of the United States Code. Washington, D.C. : United States Copyright Office, Library of Congress, 2003. (REF 346.048 U58)

These materials are available in the BCCC Library; link to the library catalog to search for more materials on the topic. Or, link to an automatic search for the subject " copyright" in library catalog.

U.S. Government official copyright links

Copyright Law

U.S. Copyright Office http://www.copyright.gov/

Title 17 U. S. Code http://www.copyright.gov/title17/

Digital Millennium Copyright Act http://www.copyright.gov/legislation/dmca.pdf

Technology Education and Copyright Harmonization Act (TEACH Act). http://www.copyright.gov/legislation/pl107-273.html#13301

Video tutorials

This video series, "Copyright for Educators" by KOCE-TV in California discusses all aspects of copyright as it pertains to educators and students.(Windows Media Player is required for viewing.)

http://www.koce.org/classroom/copyright.htm

"A Fair(y) Use Tale" was compiled by Eric Faden of Bucknell University. It takes short segments from an assortment of movies to provide information about fair use and copyright.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CJn_jC4FNDo

Links to sites referred to within our site and more

Copyright Advisory Network -- American Library Association, Office for Information Technology Policy  http://www.librarycopyright.net

Copyright Management Center -- Indiana University - Purdue University - Indianapolis http://www.copyright.iupui.edu/

Copyright Clearance Center http://www.copyright.com/

Consortium for Educational Technology in University Systems (CETUS) Fair Use http://www.cetus.org/fairindex.html

Creative Commons http://creativecommons.org/

CONFU Multimedia Guidelines. Ball State University provides a nice summary from the CONFU report here: http://www.bsu.edu/library/article/0,,14550--,00.html. For additional information see CONFU -- Conference on Fair Use (Full Report, November 1998).

"Is It Protected by Copyright?"  A digital slider for determing a work's copyright status, by Michael Brewer and the American Library Association Office for Information Technology Policy.

http://librarycopyright.net/digitalslider/