Best Practices for Copyright Compliance

Adherence to copyright laws and guidelines not only protects both individual faculty members and WPI from liability, but also promotes professional standards and practices.

Other motivators:

Commitment to following CONFU Guidelines permits more flexible online uses
Legitimate electronic access to documents can save students costs
Legitimate electronic access to documents can save the university funds
E-readings links in myWPI permits more ad-hoc distribution of useful links

Obtain permissions for copyrighted works

North Carolina State University Permissions Guide
North Carolina State University Sample Permissions Letters (change name of university embedded in text!!)
Copyright Clearance Center (charges fee)

Create legitimate links to electronic content available within subscribed library resources

Delivering Content Through myWPI: Creating e-Reading Links to Full Text Articles & Books in Subscription Databases (851KB MS Word file)

Support for authors - How can you use your own intellectual output?

Scholarly Communication & Author Rights (WPI Gordon Library)
Retaining Rights to Use Your Works from North Caroline State University
Sample contract modification language from SCAMP at UC Irvine
Creative Commons flexible copyright alternatives for authors
Create Change (co-sponsored by Association of Research Libraries, Association of College and Research Libraries, and SPARC with support from the Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation)

Useful titles in Gordon Library for learning more

Copyright in the New Millennium: The Impact of Recent Changes to U.S. Copyright Law. Presented by American Association of Law Libraries. Recorded with permission on May 21, 1999 from a satellite transmission. Two videocassettes. (General Collection: KF2995 C7 1999 video)
Lindsey, Marc. Copyright Law on Campus. Pullman, WA: Washington State University Press, c2003. (General Collection: KF3030.1 L56 2003)
Stim, Richard. Getting Permission: How to License & Clear Copyrighted Materials Online & Off. Berkeley: Nolo, 2004. (General Collection: KF3002 Z9 S75 2004)

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