Copyright

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• Background Information for Everyone
  • CSU Copyright Policy
  • Basic Copyright Law
  • Plagiarism
  • Copyright Training
    • See also free on-campus copyright training
• Information for Students
  • Downloading and File Sharing
• Information for Faculty
  • The TEACH Act [distance education]

CSU Copyright Policy

• Executive Order 999: Illegal Electronic File Sharing and Protection of Electronic Copyrighted Material, effective March 7, 2007

Basic Copyright Law

• U.S. Copyright Office
• Digital Millennium Copyright Act of 1998, U.S. Copyright Office Summary
• U.S. Copyright Office - Orphan Works
• Directory of Service Provider Agents for Notification of Claims of Infringement
• “When Works Pass into the Public Domain”, Lolly Gasaway, University of North Carolina [notice the permission she gives at the bottom of the page]

Plagiarism

• Take Cal Poly Pomona's Plagiarism Quiz!
• About Plagiarism ( 68 KB)
• Copyright & Plagiarism Tutorials, Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT)
• Copyright and Plagiarism: What's the Difference?

Copyright Training

• "Taking the Mystery out of Copyright" (from the U.S. Copyright Office)
• Copyright 101 ( 141 KB)
• Copyright 101 for Students ( 93 KB)
• Copyright Crash Course, University of Texas [online copyright training]

Downloading and File Sharing

• University of California's Share Right, resources about copyright
• "What happens if I receive a copyright infringement notice, and how can I avoid it?" from the Indiana University Knowledge Base
• Campus Downloading FAQs, from campusdownloading.com
• musicunited.org, the MUSIC Coalition's Web site providing information about peer-to-peer file sharing and the law
• For fun: See the University of Wisconsin-Madison's
  file-sharing video (wmv file, 2 minutes)

The TEACH Act/Fair Use

• Checklist for Fair Use, Copyright Management Center, IUPUI ()
• The TEACH Act Finally Becomes Law (part of the Copyright Crash Course at the University of Texas)
• "Works Made for Hire under the 1976 Copyright Act", Circular 9 at the U.S. Copyright Office
• For fun: A Fair(y) Use Tale, a short film (10 minutes) on YouTube