Legal

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Liblicense: Licensing Digital Information, Yale University Library

A comprehensive guide to licensing issues that discusses licensing terms; defines licensing vocabulary; provides access to model licenses and publisher licenses; and includes a bibliography, a directory, and other useful resources.

Sections:

Directories and Guides

Compleat World Copyright Website, Compiler Press

Computer Policy & Law: Computer Policy Collection

Copyown

Copyright & Fair Use, Stanford University Libraries

Copyright and Intellectual Property, ALA

Copyright and Intellectual Property, Association of Research Libraries

Copyright, Intellectual Property Rights, and Licensing Issues; University of California, Berkeley Library

Crash Course in Copyright, University of Texas System

CyberSpace Law Center, FindLaw

E©UP (European Copyright User Platform), EBLIDA

Information Policy: Copyright and Intellectual Property Resources, IFLA

Liblicense: Licensing Digital Information, Yale University Library

Mailing Lists

Coalition CNI-Copyright Forum

Liblicense-L List Archives, Yale University Library

Organizations

ARL Federal Relations and Information Policy

Center for Democracy and Technology

CONFU: The Conference on Fair Use, U.S. Patent and Trademark Office

Copyright Management Center, Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis

Digital Future Coalition

United States Copyright Office

The World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO)

Publications

Tech Law Journal

U.S. Laws

Digital Millennium Copyright Act

Digital Millennium Copyright Act: Status & Analysis, ARL

Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act

Uniform Computer Information Transactions Act (UCITA), ARL

Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography > Scholarly Electronic Publishing Resources > Legal

Bailey, Charles W., Jr. Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography. Houston: University of Houston Libraries, 1996-2000.