In our breakout session, we identified many debates and resources on intellectual property, digital rights, DRM, and copyright issues. Below are the links we discussed. In addtion, you can view the notes from the breakout sessionhere.

• Duke Law School's primer on copyright: Bound by the Law


• The Creative Commons: a copyright alternative

• Digital Rights Management (DRM): What is it?

• The Mouse that Ate the Public Domain:Disney, The Copyright Term Extension Act, and Eldred V. Ashcroft

• One at the Google Books debate, a great case study in copyright and fair use debates: Google Print goes live, publishers and authors go ballistic

• The Syracuse Post Standard:Illegal music downloads targeted: Morrisville State College users identified in copyright infringement crackdown

• Copyright Basics (handout, Nov. 7, 2007)

• University of North Texas Collection Development Policy (2006)


• ALA Collection Development bibliography

• UBdigit Condition of Use

• Copyright Term and the Public Domain in the United States (Peter Hirtle)

• NY Times on J.K. Rowling's criticism of the Harry Potter Lexicon

• Laura Gasaway: Links to briefs and publications on copyright issues
  

• ACRL's Statement on Fair Use and Electronic Reserves

• Syracuse University's Copyright guidelines
  • Digital Rights Management Guidelines
  
  
• Know your copyrights: Using copyrighted works in an academic setting

• Fair Use Network
  

• Copyright Clearance Center
  

• Rebecca Moore Howard: Syracuse University's "guru" on the complexities of plagiarism

• SUNY Brockport "Copyright Basics"