Copyright Essentials for Librarians and Educators
- List Price: $48.00
- Binding: Paperback
- Publisher: Amer Library Assn
- Publish date: 09/01/2000
Description:
For those professionals in the business of serving up information to the public, the evolving digital age presents new and complicated challenges. As new formats and delivery methods make duplication and transfer of information so easy, librarians and educators must make informed and legal decisions about how they will protect copyright. Attorney, librarian, researcher, and author Kenneth Crews boils down all of his expertise in this up-to-date, easy-to-understand reference designed to instruct today's information providers on the fundamentals of current copyright law.
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Enhanced with margin notes highlighting recent developments and seven helpful appendices of checklists and legislation summaries, this handy desk reference answers the key questions, including:
-- What makes a work copyright-protected or not?
-- How long do copyrights last?
-- What are the rights of copyright owners?
-- How can I determine what qualifies as fair use?
-- What are the need-to-know's regarding copyright and the Internet?
A project of the Indiana University-Purdue University Copyright Management Center, Copyright Essentials for Librarians and Educators is your one-stop, essential resource for understanding and applying copyright law!
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