Copyright Links and Resources
Legislations, Rulings, and Decisions
- Compendium of U.S. Copyright Office Practices, Third Edition, 2014
- Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) Executive Summary
- Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) Section 1201 Rules for Exemption 07/26/10 (3-year exemption)
- December 12, 2014, the Office issued a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (“NPRM”)
Further Reading
- Distance Education: TEACH Act, Fair Use, and Copyright (Columbia University Libraries)
- Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA): Guidelines for Students, Staff and Faculty (UC Riverside)
- Code of Best Practices in Fair Use for Academic and Research Libraries published January 2012 (Association of Research Libraries)
- Closed Captioning Video (High Tech Center Training Unit of the California Community Colleges)
- Copyright and New Media Law Newsletter - Campus Users Only; requires Pipeline login
- Kenley's Bookmarks on Copyright
Video (In Class and Streaming)
- Irons, Kati. "Screening Legally." American Libraries 46.1/2 (2015): 38-41. Academic Search Premier. Web. 12 Jan. 2015.
- UCLA and Association for Information and Media Equipment (2010) Inside Higher Ed, UCLA News Release, and UCLA Decision to Resume Streaming "Campus officials say the instructional uses in which UCLA engages are permitted under the fair-use limitation on the exclusive rights of a copyright owner. For example, UCLA's practices are consistent with landmark court rulings that allowed video recording of television programs for viewing at a later date (so-called "time-shifting") and the transfer of musical content from one device to another ("space-shifting")."
- Issue Brief: Streaming of Films for Educational Purposes