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Faculty, students, and colleagues come to you with copyright questions, both simple and complex. And they all want reliable answers—as fast as you can get them. With this guide, designed for ready access, you'll be prepared to deliver. Lawyer, copyright librarian, and iSchool instructor Benson presents succinct explanations ideal for both on-the-fly reference and staff training. Copyright specialists will appreciate excerpts from the law itself alongside tools and resources for digging deeper. Practical discussions of key legal concepts, illustrated using 52 scenarios, will lead you to fast, accurate answers on a range of topics, such as
- barriers to using the TEACH Act provisions in content for online teaching;
- showing a full-length movie in a university class;
- public domain and the 1998 Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act;
- your legal options when receiving a DMCA take-down notice;
- court interpretations of fair use in three key recent cases;
- Creative Commons licenses, complete with a quick reference chart;
- library rights to license photographs in a digital collection;
- using letters under copyright in a special collections display case;
- a grad student's right to use in a thesis writing published in their professor's journal article;
- applying the implied license option to post historical student dissertations in institutional repositories;
- the Marrakesh Treaty provision supporting transfer of accessible works internationally; and
- limiting factors for interlibrary loan.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- 1 Copyright Basics
- 2 The First Sale Doctrine
- 3 The Public Domain
- 4 Making Copies for Preservation
- 5 Interlibrary Loan and Unsupervised Patron Copying
- 6 Access to Copyrighted Material for Patrons with Disabilities
- 7 Face-to-Face Teaching versus Public Performance Rights
- 8 The TEACH Act
- 9 Noncommercial Performance of Nondramatic Literary or Musical Works
- 10 Fair Use
- 11 The Digital Millennium Copyright Act Circumvention Provisions
- 12 The Digital Millennium Copyright Act Notice and Takedown Provisions
- 13 Select International Copyright Library Issues
- 14 The Implied License Doctrine
- 15 Sovereign Immunity
- 16 Copyright Metadata and Rights Statements
- 17 Controlled Digital Lending
- 18 Creative Commons Licensing
- Appendix A Fair Use Checklist
- Appendix B Copyright and Film Screening Best Practices
- Appendix C Additional Recommended Reading and Materials
- Index