Copyright: The Law and Guidelines
The Public Domain & Orphan Works
Getting Permission
Links to public domain resources
Links to Orphan Works Resources
Teaching Guidelines
Teaching in the Classroom
Streaming Media for Teaching Online
Images/Sound/Media/Performance
Copyright for Authors
The CASE Act
"Why do we have copyrights? What's "fair use"? Bound By Law reaches beyond documentary film to provide a commentary on the most pressing issues facing law, art, property and an increasingly digital world of remixed culture."
The Creative Commons Blog identifies the public domain as "The space where no intellectual property rights exist." Works can enter the public domain in two ways: when the copyright expires or when the author places a work in the public domain. To determine if copyright has expired, see the links listed below. If the work was published the the U.S. before January 1st, 1924 you are free to use it in the U.S without permission.
Cornell University: Copyright Term and the Public Domain in the United States
Duke University Center for The Study of the Public Domain
Columbia University Libraries, Copyright Advisory Services: Duration and the Public Domain
Stanford University: The Public Domain
University of California: Public Domain
The U.S. Copyright Office identifies orphan works as "works that, although their author cannot be identified, are protected by copyright."
Columbia University Libraries, Copyright Advisory Services: Special Cases
Wikipedia: Orphan Works in the United States
University of Texas: Crash Course - Finding Owners and Getting Permission
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