Intellectual Property Issues

1) Intellectual Property and Copyright for Academics
Leslie Chan for the Centre for Instructional Technology Development, University of Toronto.
      A Canadian resource for those interested in finding more about recent developments in these areas. The resources chosen here are selected from the perspective of the scholars, teachers and learners. (September 2001)

2) Owning Thought
University Business interview with Intellectual Property expert Kenneth Saloman.
      How much of what schools put on the Web can be owned? And who owns it-the teacher, the university, or Web designer? (2000)

3) Intellectual Property Rights
The National Education Association.
      This National Education Association document explores how distance education and other technology uses are prompting the questions about intellectual property ownership. Issues such as owning the rights to entire courses, components of courses, and the profits from them. (1997)

4) A Primer on Distance Learning and Intellectual Property Issues
Kenneth D. Salomon, Esquire, Dow, Lohnes & Albertson Washington, D.C.
     A short overview of copyright issues and recommendations in such areas as Distance Learning, lecture notes, and international distribution. 

5) Distance Learning and Copyright: Is a Solution in Sight
Laura N. Gasaway for CAUSE/EFFECT journal (Educause).
     Covers Classroom exemption and Fair Use exemption definitions, as well as amendments to the Copyright Act of 1996 to facilitate distance education. (1999)

6) Copyright Dot Com:The Digital Millennium in Copyright
Dr. Robert N. Diotalevi, Esq., LL.M.,Director of Legal Studies, The College of West Virginia.
     A detailed article on what copyright is, associated myths, originality and expression issues, Fair Use doctrines, examples of lyric copyright infringements, and Web related issues. (November 1999)

7) Basic Principles for Managing Intellectual Property in the Digital Environment
National Humanities Alliance
      This document was prepared by the Committee on Libraries and Intellectual Property of the National Humanities Alliance (NHA) in an effort to build consensus within the educational community on the uses of copyrighted works in the digital environment. (March 1997)

8) Cyber-Property: Copyright, Citation, and the World Wide Web
Janice R. Walker, Department of English, University of South Florida.
     A quick summary of the issues and laws, including exemptions for libraries and educational uses, and international rights. (February 1996)

More:

• Copyright and Fair Use articles and publications by Stanford University: An extensive list covering cyberspace law, issues on scanning artwork, electronic publishing, photography, music, photos and software. See also here for current legislation, cases and issues.