This guide from the U.S. Copyright Office provides a thorough overview of the law and how it applies.

Consult the university's official IP policy for more information about special copyright considerations pertaining to scholarship, teaching, and work-for-hire.

Open access advocacy group, SPARC, provides an author addendum that can be used for publisher negotiation.

Creative Commons provides authors with a set of licenses that allow them to share and re-use their work legally.

Find out whether your publisher allows you to place your article in a repository

Reference information about the Fair Use Doctrine.

Cornell Law School's Legal Information Institute provides full text of the TEACH Act, as well as notes and annotations.

Provides public performance licensing rights to many major Hollywood movie studio titles.

BMI is an organization that brokers rights management for music.

This series from Education World provides educators with information on copyright in the classroom.

This guide from Stanford Libraries walks you through how to conduct a fair use analysis.

From the U.S. Copyright Office.

This guide provides two templates that can be used for seeking permissions for re-use of teaching materials and scholarship.

The Copyright Alliance explains the process for issuing a DMCA takedown notice.

An overview of the public domain, patents, fair use, trademarks and copyright information, as well as links to additional resources