Copyright Toolkit

This section of the intro contains charts, tools and articles to help start navigating through copyright. For starters this is a link to article at Stanford University Libraries, "How I Learned to Love Fair Use...". It's good information about how not to get in trouble if you work for a library, archive or nonprofit educational institution. 

Charts and Tools available at Stanford University Libraries. Links below go to page sections.

• Is it Still in Copyright?
• Digital Images
• Library and Archive Exception
• Multimedia in the Classroom
• Fair Use
• Do I have Permission to Use a Work? How can I Give Permission?
• Copyright Law Fundamentals Flowchart
• Codes of Best Practices
• Copyright Tutorials

Exemptions for Instructors

Exemptions for Instructors is a tool to help determine if your use meets educational requirements for copyright

Copyright Genie

The Copyright Genie will ask you a few questions about the work and will inform you of the copyright results.

Public Domain Slider

The Public Domain Slider, this simple tools helps you figure out if the a work is copyrighted or public domain, not perfect but it's a start.

Copyright.gov
Title 17
Circulars & Fact sheets

University of Texas Libraries:
Copyright Crash Course

University System of Georgia:
Guide to theTEACh Act

Kansas State University
Copyright

Cornell University Library 
Copyright Information Center