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The Copyright Management Center assists members of the university community as they work with copyright issues in the creation of original works and in the use of existing copyrighted works for teaching, research, and service. Indiana University is a complex organization with ambitious programs for the creation and dissemination of new knowledge. In the pursuit of those programs, our activities frequently raise questions about the relationship of copyright to the university's research, teaching, and service mission. A principal objective of the Copyright Management Center is to facilitate a constructive relationship between higher education and our legal rights and responsibilities.
To serve that objective, these pages provide access to a wide variety of resources about copyright in general and its importance to higher education, including a variety of other pages dealing with the subject of copyright. You can learn more about the Copyright Management Center and what the CMC can do for you, about copyright policies and standards, and about copyright interpretations as applied to particular situations that a professor, librarian, or student may encounter. Topics of particular interest include fair use and distance learning.
If you are already knowledgeable about copyright, you should find these pages to hold a useful inventory of primary and secondary source materials for probing an issue more fully. We hope that members of the university community will find the resources necessary to help them begin to answer questions and resolve copyright concerns. Newcomers to the world of copyright will benefit from taking the time to read the Copyright Basics Circular from the U.S. Copyright Office and to learn why copyright is so important.
IMPORTANT NEWS FOR LIBRARIES
AND ARCHIVES: The U.S. Congress recently enacted new copyright laws that
make important changes to the rights of libraries and archives to make copies
under Section 108. These recent laws create new opportunities for
copying for preservation and patron uses and clarify what types of copyright
notice that libraries and archives must include on copies made from their
collections.
The IU
School of Library and Information Science announces two workshops on
legal issues affecting libraries and information professionals: Copyright
and Intellectual Property for Information Professionals and Legal Aspects
of Information Science. Offered during Fall 1998 Semester, both will be
led by Professor Kenneth Crews, Associate Professor, Associate Professor
of Law and of Library and Information Science, and Director of the IU
Copyright Management Center. These workshops may be taken separately or
together, for academic credit or on a non-credit basis for professional
development.
The Copyright Management Center for Indiana University is pleased to
sponsor the second Indiana University
Online Copyright Tutorial during Fall 1998 Semester. More than 2,000
people subscribed to the Spring tutorial. Did you? Sign up now for Fall!
You say you did participate in the Spring tutorial? Well, this is your
opportunity to review the basics and to learn even more, as this version
is Updated to include new trends, developments, and strategies in
copyright, including:
Legislation in Congress that may change the term of protection for
copyrights;
Developments in the law for distance learning;
Congressional action to create new "copyright-like" protections for databases and to secure digital information resources.
Special
Announcement of Recent Developments Affecting Copyright and Higher
Education! Are State Universities Immune from Copyright Liability?
The Constitution May Say Yes!, an analysis by Kenneth D. Crews of
recent rulings in Rodriguez v. Texas Commission on the Arts, 1998 U.S.
Dist., Lexis 1310 (N.D.Tex. 1998) and Chavez v. Arte Publico Press, 1998
U.S. App. Crews, Kenneth
D. Fair Use and Higher Education: Are Guidelines the Answer? As
published in Academe: Bulletin of the American Association of University
Professors, Vol. 83, No. 6 (November/December 1997).
President
Signs New Criminal Copyright Bill Raising The Stakes For Electronic
Copyright Responsibilities. On Wednesday, December 17, 1997 President
Clinton signed into law the "No Electronic Theft Act."
On December 5,
1997 the Indiana University Board of Trustees adopted the Indiana
University Policy on Fair Use of Copyrighted Works for Education and
Research. A statement of supporting principles explaining the
underlying principles of the policy accompanies it, and a FAQ sheet
has been prepared to answer questions such as "Why do we need a
fair-use policy?" and "Who is subject to this policy?" The
Copyright Management Center has already begun the process of implementing
the new policy. We have been hard at work preparing materials to assist
the IU community in understanding and working with the new policy. We also
welcome invitations from schools, departments, or libraries on all IU
campuses to visit and conduct workshops and discussion sessions.
Final Report
to the Commissioner on the Conference on Fair Use. After more than
two years of negotiation, in September of 1997, various stakeholders in
the debate about fair use for education and libraries have issued a report
with proposed guidelines on three general matters: Development of Multimedia
Works; Digital Access to Visual Images; and Use of Materials in Distance
Learning.
PLEASE NOTE: These guidelines are not the law.
Many
educational institutions are declining to support them. Indiana
University is currently taking them under review.
Please send us your thoughts about the guidelines.
Not
the "Last Word" on Photocopying and Coursepacks: The Sixth Circuit
Rules Against Fair Use in the MDS Case, an analysis by Kenneth D. Crews
of the November 8, 1996 Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals decision in
Princeton University Press v. Michigan Document Services, Inc..
See also Notes from the June 12, 1996 rehearing en banc before
the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals.
Contact the
CMC Background
statements on copyright developments Position
statements on copyright developments
Videotapes About the CMC
Director, Kenneth D. Crews
Copyright Law:
Some Fundamental Sources Intellectual
Property Web Sites Alternative
Views of Intellectual Property Copyright: the
Weird and the Wonderful Publications
of the CMC
The Center contributes to the university's research and service goals by pursuing and sponsoring new research on copyright issues and participating in campus, state, and national commissions shaping copyright policy. The Center is also an administrative unit of the university, charged with fostering and coordinating the development of policy positions affecting the use of copyrighted works and the ownership of newly created works on campus. To achieve that end, we want to work with you, not as your personal copyright counsel, but instead as your guide. The CMC will help you find the right direction, and you will participate in making important judgments and implementing your decisions.
Here is just a sample of the possibilities:
Provide
guidance for addressing copyright issues as they arise. Offer access
to information resources on copyright. Sponsor
workshops for groups of faculty, librarians, staff, or students. Assist
departments and other campus units with establishing an understanding of
"fair use" and a copyright permission system. Coordinate
efforts to formulate policy for your unit or department.
Copyright usually arises on campus as a frightening beast, terrorizing your plans and threatening everyone with ponderous liability. That image has been shaped largely by disturbing news reports and restrictive warnings against photocopying, software use, database downloading, and other activities. But copyright's relationship to the university is far more complex, and it often serves to protect faculty and the university as much as it might also inhibit them. Working with diverse members of the university community, the Center proposes to identify the many opportunities and benefits that copyright law can confer. Working together, we can discover the mutual respect implicit in copyright's balance of interests: we can demonstrate our respect for the interests of copyright owners, and we can exercise our rights under the law to utilize protected works to advance our common goals.
Copyright and
Distance Education: Lawful Uses of Protected Works. Fair Use:
Overview and Meaning for Higher Education NII Copyright
Awareness Campaign You
and Your Copyrights: Securing, Managing, and Sharing the Legal Rights
We invite suggestions and comments from all of our users, and we hope that you will send us a message with your thoughts.
Copyright Management Center
IUPUI University Library
755 West Michigan Street
Indianapolis, IN 46202-5195
TEL: 1.317.274-4400
FAX: 1.317.278-3301
E-Mail: copyinfo@iupui.edu
OR copyinfo@indiana.edu
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