Research Guides: Copyright Toolkit: Charts & Tools

About This Section

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.

Tools

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 Law of the United States

Copyright Guides from Other Universities

University of Texas Libraries:
Copyright Crash Course

University System of Georgia:
Guide to theTEACh Act