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US Copyright Office - the best source for copyright laws and forms
Creative Commons Licensing - find copyright-free information and learn how to protect your own content
Copyright information from Wikipedia - basic copyright definition and information
Copyright Management Center - IUPUI - good information for faculty and copyright users
Copyright and Fair Use from Stanford - a extensive site on information about fair use from Stanford, including a blog of most current information
Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) - an organization dedicated to defending user rights in the digital world
Copyright Information for MIT Faculty - copyright information provided for the MIT faculty
TEACH Act Toolkit: NCSU Libraries - an entire toolkit of copyright information, particularly as it pertains to the Teach Act
Copyright Crash Course - a great way to teach yourself the basics of copyright from the University of Texas
Produced in 2007 by Professor Eric Faden of Bucknell University with/for The Media Education Foundation. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 License.
