Wednesday, February 24, 2010

Fair Use, Teach Act, and Accessibility Links

Fair Use:

Fair use and copyright definitions and policies (great site for defining aspects of fair use). Also offers a chart of what is legally accepted in fair use and restrictions in teaching.
http://home.earthlink.net/~cnew/research.htm

University of Texas systems copyright policy
http://www.utsystem.edu/OGC/intellectualproperty/copypol.htm

University of Texas systems copyright policy article that focuses on university copy centers
http://copyright.lib.utexas.edu/mono1.html

North Carolina State University
http://www.ncsu.edu/copyright/defenses.php
http://www.provost.ncsu.edu/copyright/resources/tutorials/FairUseandPermission.php

Stanford University fair use and copyright
http://fairuse.stanford.edu/Copyright_and_Fair_Use_Overview/chapter9/index.html

Indiana University Bloomington policy for fair use on education and research
http://www.indiana.edu/~bfc/docs/policies/fairUsePolicy.pdf

University at Buffalo: The State University of New York fair use policy
http://library.buffalo.edu/libraries/aboutus/policies-use/copyright.php

Winthrop University (in South Carolina) fair use
http://www2.winthrop.edu/copyright/copyfair.htm

Example of checklist for conducting a fair use analysis (taken from Cornell University)
http://www.copyright.cornell.edu/policies/docs/Fair_Use_Checklist.pdf

Brown University fair use policies for various different types of sources (links on left hand side of page in red)
http://www.brown.edu/Administration/Copyright/

University of California fair use policy
http://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/copyright/fairuse.html

Tufts University policy on fair use
https://wikis.uit.tufts.edu/confluence/display/ScholarlyCommunications/Tufts+University+Policy+on+Fair+Use+of+Copyrighted+Materials

University of Missouri fair use and copyright policies (also focuses specifically on photo fair use too)
http://extension.missouri.edu/staff/marketing/copyright.html

University of Tennessee fair use policy
http://www.lib.utk.edu/copyright/policy.html


TEACH Act:

Description of the TEACH Act (American Library Association)
http://www.ala.org/ala/issuesadvocacy/copyright/teachact/index.cfm

Guide to the TEACH Act for the University System of Georgia (representing numerous Georgia Universities). There is also a link on the left that has information on copyright and fair use for the University System of Georgia as well.
http://www.usg.edu/legal/teach_act/

TEACH Act for University of Texas
http://www.utsystem.edu/ogc/intellectualproperty/teachact.htm

University of Connecticut TEACH Act policy (also information on fair use for this university as well)
http://www.lib.uconn.edu/copyright/teachAct.html

University of Alaska TEACH Act policy
http://hosting.uaa.alaska.edu/designteam/teach_act/teach_act.html

Colorado State University TEACH Act policy
http://tilt.colostate.edu/guides/tilt_copyright/exemption_distance.cfm

George Mason University policy on TEACH Act and fair use
http://universitypolicy.gmu.edu/1104gen.html


Accessibility in ADA Section 508:

Ohio State University web accessibility policy regarding ADA section 508
http://ada.osu.edu/resources/WebPolicies.htm

University of Wisconsin-Madison policy on Web accessibility and section 508
http://www.wisc.edu/policy/wwwap.php

Texas A&M web accessibility policies (offers links to the university's policies as well as federal laws and information on section 508)
http://webaccess.tamu.edu/policies.php

University of Utah section 508 accessibility standards
http://ucomm.utah.edu/webtemplates/section508.html

Thanks to Brent Vance for compiling the list above.