LICENSING DIGITAL INFORMATION		Licensing Resources

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American Association of Law Libraries (Washington Affairs)

The AALL seeks to promote the value of law libraries to the public and the legal community, to foster the profession of law librarianship, and to provide leadership in the field of legal information and information policy. In addition to representing the views of the AALL, this Web site presents extensive information on legislative, judicial and regulatory activities concerning public access to information, especially in digital format.

 

American Association of Museums

The AAM assists museum staff, boards and volunteers to better serve the public through advocacy, professional education, information exchange, accreditation, and guidance on current professional standards of performance. The AAM's Web page on intellectual property presents a brief overview of intellectual property issues faced by museums in the digital age.

 

American Library Association, Washington Office

The ALA Washington Office serves as the link between ALA and Congress. Current copyright issues and the group's lobbying agenda are available at http://www.ala.org/ala/washoff/woissues/copyrightb/copyright.cfm

 

American Library Association -- American Intellectual Property Law Association

The AIPLA is the professional association of the more than 10,000 attorneys specializing in the practice of intellectual property law. This Web site includes testimony, statements and comments presented by the AIPLA in the 105th and 106th US Congresses.

 

Arizona State University. Opposing Copyright Extension: A Forum for Information on Proposals to Extend the Term of Copyright Protection and What to Do about It.

This site, maintained by ASU Law Professor Dennis S. Karjala contains extensive links to commentary, legislative materials and other resources on this issue.

 

Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers

ALPSP serves as a meeting point for all those involved in the publication of academic and professional journals and books. It was formed in 1972, as an association of learned and professional organizations involved in publishing. ALPSP provides information and advice to members, both individually and via an e-mail discussion list. The Association publishes a quarterly journal, Learned Publishing, and an electronic newsletter, ALPSP Alert. It runs a full programme of seminars on issues of current concern and a series of training courses. ALPSP also monitors national and international issues and represents the interests of members to the wider world.

 

Association of Research Libraries (Copyright and IP page)

This extensive site contains documents and postings on Federal Relations and Information Policy; analysis and documents concerning the Digital Millenium Copyright Act and the Copyright Term Extension Act; database proposals and legislation from the U.S. 105th and 106th Congresses; documents and analysis concerning the Uniform Computer Information Transactions Act (UCITA), (formerly UCC 2B); and additional resources on copyright and fair use.

 

Central and Eastern European Licensing Information Platform (CELIP)

The CELIP initiative supports the training and development of librarians in the countries of Central and Eastern Europe responsible for negotiating and securing license agreements to electronic material. The project started in November 2000 and will run for 15 months.

 

Coalition for Networked Information (CNI) - Rights for Electronic Access to and Delivery of Digital Information (READI): Negotiating Networked Information Contracts and Licenses

This guide from 1994, sponsored by the Coalition for Networked Information (and prepared by Robert Ubell Associates), offers a paragraph-by-paragraph analysis of contractual language in the networked environment. It is designed to assist network vendors, suppliers, publishers, and buyers of networked information in their efforts to negotiate effective agreements.

 

Columbia University, Institute for Learning Technologies (ILT Guide to Copyright)

This well-organized page presents information and documents on copyright with an emphasis on the needs of educators and libraries. The site is also linked to ILT's information service CREDO (Copyright Resources for Education Online), which provides information on the rights of owners and users of digital software and technology. This resource is designed for use by non-lawyers in the educational community and elsewhere interested in issues of copyright and new media technologies.

 

Consortium for the Computer Interchange of Museum Information (CIMI)

Formed in 1990, CIMI is a group of institutions and organizations that encourages an open standards-based approach to the management and delivery of digital museum information. CIMI is involved in researching for the museum community standards for structuring its data and for enabling widespread search and retrieval capabilities.

 

COPEARMS

COPEARMS (Coordinating Project for electronic Authors' Right Management Systems) is co-financed by the European Commission (EC) under the Esprit Programme1 and will run for three years from November 1995. The aim of the project is to assist other projects co-financed by the EC concerned with intellectual property rights (IPR) management to develop and implement interoperable Electronic Copyright Management Systems (ECMS).

 

Copyright & Fair Use from Stanford University Libraries

A page of primary materials (statutes, court opinions, etc.), current legislation and cases, Internet resources, and general resources on copyright and fair use.  This site is searchable.

 

Copyright Clearance Center

The CCC is a provider of licensing systems for the reproduction and distribution of copyrighted materials in print and electronic formats. The company manages rights relating to over 1.75 million works and represents more than 9,600 publishers and hundreds of thousands of authors and other creators, directly or through their representatives. See esp. their Academic Permissions Service Terms and Conditions.

 

The Copyright Licensing Agency

The Copyright Licensing Agency Ltd is the UK's Reproduction Rights Organisation and a member of IFRRO, the International Federation of Reproduction Rights Organisations. CLA is responsible for looking after the interests of rights owners in copying from books, journals and periodicals. Formed in 1982, it is a non-profit making company limited by guarantee and owned by its members, the Authors' Licensing and Collecting Society (ALCS) and the Publishers Licensing Society (PLS).

 

Copyright Management Center, Indiana University - Purdue University Indianapolis

Contains materials on fair use, rights and claims of ownership, distance education, library issues, permissions, current legislation,  and other resources on copyright and intellectual property.

 

Cornell University, Legal Information Institute

Presents federal statutes and federal judicial decisions concerning copyright, international conventions and treaties on copyright and intellectual property, and other related Internet resources.

 

FindLaw is a Web portal aimed at providing free and easy access to legal information. FindLaw is

a privately held company backed by @Ventures, the affiliated venture capital arm of CMGI, Inc.

 

Elsevier Science TULIP

The University Licensing Program (TULIP), a cooperative research project which ran from early 1991 through 1995, tested systems for networked delivery and use of journals. The project was conducted by Elsevier Science and nine universities in the United States.

 

European Bureau of Library, Information and Documentation Associations (EBLIDA): see their

Licensing Resources document

 

Getty Museum Educational Site Licensing Project (MESL) -- Final reports

MESL was a two-year (1995-1997) collaborative project involving seven collecting institutions and seven universities aimed at defining the terms and conditions for the educational use of digitized museum images and related information.

 

Home Recording Rights Coalition

HRRC is an advocacy group that includes consumers, retailers, manufacturers and professional servicers of consumer electronics recording products. HRRC's seeks to protect the right to use VCRs, audio recorders and computers for private, non-commercial purposes. HRRC follows developments in Washington which affect home recording rights and strives to inform and involve the public, the small business community and Members of Congress when those rights are threatened.

 

Interlibrary Loan

Results of a straw poll of Liblicense subscribers

 

International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA), (Information Policy: Copyright and Intellectual Property Page)

This page presents an extensive bibliography of documents on copyright and intellectual property, all available on the Internet.

 

International Federation of Reproduction Rights Organisations (IFRRO)

IFRRO, a not-for-profit association begun in 1980, seeks to facilitate international collective administration of reproduction and related copyright rights through cooperation of Reproduction Rights Organisations (RROs).

 

Marketshare Inc. - A Useful Benchmark: The OURS Licensing Principles

In 1992, several vendors and major end-users formed a group to promote interoperability of computing products within a multi-vendor environment. This group, the Open User Recommended Solutions Consortium (OURS), established a software licensing task force to help vendors and users develop a set of licensing principles that both parties would view as fair. The results of the task force effort was a white paper published in March of 1993.

 

Media Resources Center, Moffitt Library, University of California, Berkeley

The Media Resources Center supports the University of California, Berkeley's electronic non-print collections. They have collected on this website resources related to copyright and intellectual property as related to non-print media.

 

Microsoft - Microsoft Licensing Policies

Answers to frequently asked questions regarding Microsoft software licensing policies.

 

Museum Computer Network--Copyright and Intellectual Property Law Resources

The Museum Computer Network is a nonprofit organization of professionals dedicated to fostering the cultural aims of museums through the use of computer technologies.

 

UCITA: Summary Information

Provided by Info World Electric, this site provides some background and resources on UCITA (Uniform Computer Information Transactions Act). UCITA is proposed legislation intended to provide a uniform contractual framework for the licensing of information in all fifty states. The draft law is a replacement of Article 2B of the Uniform Commercial Code or UCC, (see next item below) and has been sent to state legislatures for possible enactment. The UCC, which governs business contracts, is drafted jointly by the American Law Institute (ALI) and the National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws (NCCUSL) and is enacted by each state legislature individually. Out of concern that consumer interests have not been sufficiently considered in the proposed UCITA legislation, the ALI has not approved it. Thus, UCITA is sponsored only by the NCCUSL, not by both groups.

 

Uniform Commercial Code, Article 2B Revision

Here you can download drafts and other information concerning UCC Article 2B Revision.

 

United States Copyright Office

The United States Copyright Office has put together a comprehensive website of resources related to copyright issues.

 

University of Maryland at College Park - Museum Educational Site Licensing Project (MESL)

The Museum Educational Site Licensing Project was jointly launched by the Getty Information Institute and MUSE Educational Media to define appropriate terms and conditions for educational use of digital reproductions on campus networks. See Getty Museum Educational Site Licensing Project (MESL) -- Final reports.

 

University of Texas - University of Texas Copyright Management Center

The Copyright Management Center exists to facilitate the research and academic missions of the University of Texas System Component Institutions by providing guidance and information to faculty, staff and students concerning applicable law and the alternatives available to help accomplish educational objectives.

 

It's All in the Fine Print: Online Resources for Software and Database License Review

Prepared by the Office of the General Counsel of the University of Texas, this site provides information on contract review, objectives, trends in contract processing, options for reviewing and docketing, etc.

World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO)

An intergovernmental agency within the United Nations system of organizations, is responsible for the promotion of the protection of intellectual property throughout the world through cooperation among countries.  WIPO also administers various multilateral treaties dealing with the legal and administrative aspects of intellectual property.  The texts of these treaties are among the resources available at this Web site.

 

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