Copyright overviews and tutorials
Copyright overviews and tutorials
If you'd like to learn more about copyright, please contact your liaison librarian. To take a deeper dive, review the following resources and tutorials from credible external sources:
- What is Copyright? by the U.S. Copyright Office
- A brief overview of copyright law straight from the source
- Copyright on Campus (video) by the Copyright Clearance Center
- Copyright basics in 6 minutes
- Authors Alliance Copyright Fundamentals
- Authors Alliance creates resources to help authors understand and enjoy their rights and promote policies that make knowledge and culture available and discoverable. This overview of Copyright Fundamentals is helpful to answer copyright questions from the author's perspective.
- Is it protected by copyright?
- A slider helps you determine whether an item is in the public domain
- Copyright in 90 seconds (audio) by Dennison University Library
- A podcast exploring various aspects of copyright. Note: not all information pertains to Messiah University.
- Copyright 101 by Cornell University Library
- A comprehensive overview of copyright as it pertains to educational institutions, educators, and scholars.
- Know Your Copyrights by the Association of Research Libraries
- Highlights specific sections of copyright law that pertain to libraries and educational institutions and provides direct link to the text of the law.
- Copyright crash course by the University of Texas Libraries
- A course designed to help faculty understand copyright.
- Exceptions for Instructors eTool
- There are copyright exceptions for educational use. From the homepage, click the "Instructors eTool" button. This tool may help you determine whether your use case meets the criteria for an exception.
- Teaching Copyright by the Electronic Frontier Foundation
- A curriculum to help faculty teach students about copyright
- Open Content: Navigating Creative Commons Licenses
- A comprehensive guide to Creative Commons licensing