Intellectual Property

This page is an update of an older page which can be found here: http://ethics.csc.ncsu.edu/intellectual/law/fair/

A Link to the Project Assignment: http://courses.ncsu.edu/ece492g/lec/004/homework/signup/topics.html#fair

Table of Contents

1.  Fair Use Definitions

• **  Stanford Copyright and Fair Use - What is Fair Use? Stanford University Libraries
• Copyright Website (Practical copyright information)
• ** How Much of Someone Else's Work May I Use Without Asking Permission? LLoyd L. Rich, The Publishing Law Center
• Fair Use Explained University of Delaware
• Understanding Your Rights: The Public's Right of Fair Use Robin D. Gross
• USC Title 17, Section 107  (The legal guidelines for Fair Use) Cornell Law School
• Web & Software Development: A Legal Guide - Web and Software Permissions  Stephen Fishman
• ** Access Denied: The Limits of Fair Use Elliot Zaret, DCBar.com
• 10 big myths about copyright explained Brad Templeton
• ** CONFU: The Conference on Fair Use University of Texas System

2.  Opposing Viewpoints for Fair Use

Broad Interpretation

• ** Protect Fair Use: Protecting Consumer's Fair Use Rights in the Digital Age (A site to supporting consumer's fair use rights)
• ** Fair Use Advocates Silenced by Big Brother Grant Gross, The Register
• ** Congressman Rick Boucher Urges Reaffirmation of Fair Use Rights Boycott-RIAA.com
• New Yorkers for Fair Use  (Supporters of a very broad definition for Fair Use)

Narrow Interpretation

• ** Hollywood Makes War on DVD Copying Ted Bridis, Associated Press 
• ** Burning Backup DVDs Ruled Illegal Peter Lewis, Fortune Magazine

3.  Fair Use and Education

• Copyright and Fair Use in the Classroom, on the Internet, and the World Wide Web University of Maryland
• ** Fair Use of Copyrighted Materials (Do's and Don'ts for educational use of copyrighted material) The University of Texas System
• ** Copyright and Distance Education IUPUI: Copyright Management Center
• ** Intellectual Property and Copyright Resources National Education Association: Higher Education
• Fair Use Guidlines for Educational Multimedia The American Distance Education Consortium 

4.  Fair Use On the Internet

• ** Free Speech Under Net Attack Anne Broache, CNetNews.com
• ** Google Cache Ruled Fair Use Loren Baker, Search Engine Journal

5.  Fair Use and Computer Code

• Rep: Give Fair Use a Fair Shake Declan McCullagh, Wired
• Free Speech Right's for Computer Code  Amy Harmon, NY Times

6.  Fair Use and the Digitization of Printed Material

• ** The Google Book Search Project: Is Online Indexing a Fair Use Under Copyright Law? Attorney Robin Jeweler
• ** Intellectual Property - Gprint NCSU - Ethics in Computing
• ** DMCA Section 108: Photocopying by Libraries and Archives American Library Association