Washington and Lee University
Copyright Basics
- What is Copyright Law? - Copyright Compliance
- Copyright Crash Course - University of Texas
Fair Use
- Fair Use - Copyright Compliance
- Chart: Evaluating Applicability of Fair Use - Catholic University
- Fair Use Checklist - Columbia University
Public Domain
- When U.S. Works Pass Into the Public Domain - University of North Carolina
- Copyright Term and the Public Domain in the U.S. - Cornell
- Digital Slider to Evaluate Public Domain Status - American Library Association
Copyright Research
Guides and Tools
- How to Investigate the Copyright Status of a Work - U.S. Copyright Office
- Copyright Research Overview - Stanford University
- Researching the Copyright Status of a Book: Protected or Public Domain? - Columbia University
- Digital Image Rights Computator - Visual Resources Association
- Copy Photography Computator - Visual Resources Association
Databases
- Copyright Catalog (1978 - present) - U.S. Copyright Office
- Copyright Renewal Records - Google
- Copyright Renewal Database - Stanford University
- Publishing, Literary, and Other Firms Out of Business (FOB) Database - University of Texas
- WATCH (Writers, Artists and Their Copyright Holders) Database - University of Texas
- Find an Author - The Society of Authors
Specific Copyright Issues
- Digital Millennium Copyright Act - Copyright Compliance
- TEACH Act - Copyright Compliance
- TEACH Toolkit - North Carolina State University