Appendix A

References about copyright

Further Sources of Information

These are some online sites that have information about "Fair Use," especially as it applies to educational groups (and thus, theoretically, the SCA):

• http://www.libraries.psu.edu/avs/fairuse/default.html which has information directly from CONFU, the Conference on Fair Use, discussing Internet uses.
• http://fairuse.stanford.edu - a page at Stanford Law School all about Fair Use; since this is a law school there are legal terms, and links to current cases.
• http://daemon.ilt.columbia.edu/projects/copyright - Institute for Learning Technologies at Columbia University Guide to Copyright for Educators.

These sites are devoted to primarily copyright matters:

• http://www.mcgrawhill.ca/copyrightlaw/ - A legal publisher's site with the latest in Canadian copyright law, including the Copyright Law Reform legislation.
• http://lcweb.loc.gov/copyright/ - The U.S. Copyright Office
• http://www.cipo.ga.ca/ - Canadian Intellectual Property information
• http://www.ipaustralia.gov.au - Australian Intellectual Property information
• http://www.patents.com/howtocon.sht - A web page that lists links to the Patent, Trademark, and/or Copyright offices of many countries
• http://www.uspto.gov - U.S. Patent and Trademark Office
• http://www.copyright.com - The Copyright Clearance Center Online; the CCC was created at the request of Congress to help people comply with copyright law.
• http://www.batnet.com/oikoumene/ - WWW Multimedia Law is a commercial site with up-to-date links to articles, guidelines, news, and products dealing with multimedia law, especially as it applies to the World Wide Web, including links to the music licensing organizations ASCAP and BMI.
• http://www.ipl.org/ref/QUE/FARQ/netciteFARQ.html - The Internet Public Library offers a Citing Electronic Resources page which includes links to a number of helpful guides to citing electronic information.
• http://www.abanet.org/buslaw/cyber/sisrep1.html - "Publisher Liability in Cyberspace," a report by the Subcommittee of Interactive Services, of the Committee of Law and Commerce in Cyberspace, of the American Bar Association Business Law Section.

And for those of you who prefer to work with paper, just a few possibilities:

• The Copyright Book: A Practical Guide by William S. Strong, The MIT Press, Cambridge MA and London, England - Second Edition is 1984, there should be a newer one, ISBN 0-262-69104-3.
• Canadian Copyright Law by Lesley Ellen Harris, McGraw-Hill Tyerson, Toronto and Montreal, 1995, ISBN 0-07-552547-X
• The Copyright Handbook: How to Protect and Use Written Works by Stephen Fishman, Nolo Press, Berkeley, 1997, ISBN 0-87337-414-2
• How to Register a Copyright and Protect Your Creative Work by Robert B. Chickering & Susan Hartman, Charles Scribner and Sons, New York, 1987, ISBN 0-684-18878-3
• The Music Business: A Legal Perspective by Peter Muller, Quorum Books, Greenwood, Connecticut, 1994, ISBN 0-89930-702-7

A number of crafting publications have run articles on copyright law, most recently (as this is written) the April 1998 issue of Lady's Circle Patchwork Quilts and the Spring 1998 issue of Beadwork (which discusses it as "Ethics in Beadwork"). Even Playboy ran an article discussing copyright law and the Web. Some online services, such as Compuserve, hold discussions of copyright law in their crafts, photography, writing, and other areas, and transcripts are often available in that archives for that area.

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