RESOURCES

CHECKLISTS AND OTHER DECISION TOOLS

• Do I Need Permission For That? Decision Tree (pdf)
• Help! I Need Open Content! (pdf)
• Is It a Fair Use? (pdf)
• Cornell Copyright Decision Tree (pdf)
• Fair Use Checklist (pdf)
• Copyright Review Workbook Template (xlsx)
• Copyright Term and the Public Domain in the United States
  Peter Hirtle, Cornell University Library

CORNELL COPYRIGHT PERMISSION FORMS

• Assignment of Rights (From Independent Contractor to Cornell)
• Performance Agreement and Release (For Presenters with Media Resources)
• Performance Agreement and Release (w/ FERPA for Students)
• Photo Model Release (pdf)
• Sample Letter Requesting Permission to Reproduce Copyrighted Material
• Standard Release - University Communications

RESOURCES FOR LIBRARIANS

• LibraryLaw Blog
  Issues concerning libraries and the law
• LIBLICENSE: Licensing Digital Information
  Yale University Library and Council on Library and Information Resources
• WATCH (Writers, Artists, and Their Copyright Holders) and FOB (Firms Out of Business)
  Database managed by Henry Ransom Center and University of Reading Library

RELATED SITES, PAGES, AND MATERIALS

Author Rights

• Scholars Copyright Addendum Engine
  Science Commons tool to create a PDF form that you can attach to a journal publisher's copyright agreement to ensure that you retain certain rights.
• SHERPA/RoMEO
  Guide to publishers' self-archiving policies

Open Access

• Open Access Publishing Guide
  Guidance in open access scholarly publishing for researchers in the life and social sciences.
• Open Educational Resources
  Faculty at Cornell and across the world are joining the OER movement to save students money, take control over course materials, and improve learning.

Fair Use

• Copyright Crash Course
  Georgia Harper, University of Texas System Office of General Counsel
• Fair Use Defintion, U.S. Code TITLE 17 > CHAPTER 1 > Sec. 107
• Copyright and Fair Use Stanford University Libraries
• Fair Use for Nonfiction Authors Brianna L. Schoefield & Robert Kirk Walker for Authors Alliance
  Common scenarios with guidance from community practice
• Association of Research Libraries Code of Best Practices in Fair Use For Academic and Research Libraries
• College Art Association Code of Best Practices in Fair Use for the Visual Arts
• Visual Resources Association: Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) and Copyright

U.S. Copyright Law

• Cornell Faculty Guide to Copyright
• U.S. Copyright Law from Cornell Legal Information Institute
• U.S. Copyright Law of the United States of America
• Copyright: An Overview
  Cornell Legal Information Institute
• United States Copyright Office
  The Library of Congress

Music

• Copyright for Music Librarians
  Music Library Association
• Search Performing Rights Societies 
  Music Publishers' Association
• SongFile Community Licensing for Mechanical Reproductions

International Copyright

• UNESCO 
  Free access to national legislations on author's rights and neighbouring rights, which are regularly communicated to UNESCO by its Members States. Click and choose the country which you want to consult.