Overview
Copyright for online resources is a complex and confusing topic. This section will provide you with links to useful information about copyright but is in no way intended to serve as legal counsel on this topic.
Resources
Fair Use, Council on Library Resources, FindLaw Internet Legal Resources and the Stanford University Libraries and Academic Information Resources, Stanford University (http://fairuse.stanford.edu/)
Excellent overview to copyright and online issues. Well-organized and easy to follow (no such promise about the copyright text itself!)
Intellectual Freedom and Copyright, Washington Library Media Online (http://www.wlma.org/intfree/censcopy.htm)
Links to school districts' answers to copyright issues as well as other copyright-related resources. Designed with K-12 teachers and administrators in mind.
US Copyright Office, Library of Congress (http://lcweb.loc.gov/copyright/)
Information from the source itself. Not easily navigated, but contains most of the information necessary to understand the issue.
Resources compiled and annotated by Beth Terhune, University of Massachusetts, 5/27/99
