Links to sites dealing with copyright and intellectual property. (If these links are primarily to American sites it is because Canberra is so slow getting content onto the Internet)

Copyright Information:
Copyright Clearance Center, Inc.

Image Licensing:
Mira

Text of the U.S. Copyright Act of 1976 (title 17 of the United States Code)
¥ - from Cornell University
¥ - from the U.S. House of Representatives (gopher)
¥ U.S. Copyright Office
¥ Institute for Learning: Guide to Copyright & Related Resources (ILT)
¥ Legal Information Institute, Cornell Law School
¥ WWW Multimedia Law
¥ Copyright and Fair Use, Stanford University Libraries
¥ Findlaw Internet Legal Resources
¥ Fair Use Guidelines for Educational Multimedia

Other Organizations:
¥ ASMP, The American Society of Media Photographers
¥ GAG, the Graphic Artists Guild
¥ ASCAP (American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers)
¥ BMI (Broadcast Music Inc.)
¥ The Harry Fox Agency, Inc.
¥ Motion Picture Licensing Corporation
¥ SPA (Software Publishers Association)
¥ WIPO (World Intellectual Property Organization)
¥ EFF, the Electronic Frontier Foundation
¥ AAP, the Association of American Publishers, Inc.

Photographic Information:
PDN, PHOTO DISTRICT NEWS

And still more..

• United States Copyright Law (from Cornell's Legal Information Institute)
  The No Electronic Theft Act recently amended federal copyright law, so that electronic distributions which are willful infringement are punishable by severe penalties, even though the distributor makes no profit.
    - The Fair Use Test comprises four factors to be considered
• University of California (UC):
    - "Policy on Copyright Ownership"
    - "Policy and Guidelines on the Reproduction of Copyrighted Materials
        for Teaching and Research"
    - Working DRAFT of Basic Principles on copyright and scholarly legislation

• The UC Office of Technology Transfer (OTT)'s Copyright Matters "primer"
• Fair Use of Copyrighted Materials from the University of Texas.
• Copyright & Fair Use (from Stanford Libraries)
• United States Copyright Office
• UCB's Office of Technology Licensing (OTL)
• The Berkeley Digital Library's Sunsite on Copyright
• Copyright in Cyberspace interview with UCB Professor Samuelson
• The Copyright Website.
• The Intellectual Property and Technology Forum at Boston College Law School
• Copyright & Art Issues from the University of Oregon
• The American Library Association (ALA) non-endorsement Position Statement on the Multimedia Fair Use Guidelines

• The Copyright Clearance Center (CCC) for photocopy permissions
• Wake Forest's Copyright Permission Pages for classroom, scholarly writing and classroom use authorizations