It is your responsibility to comply with United States Copyright Law, when using copies of other individual’s creative works. 

At the VRC, Copyright Law is most likely to pertain to educational use of copies of concrete expressions of a creative work, such as:

Musical works, scores, lyrics, and sound recordings
Pictorial/graphic works, art, sculpture, photographs
Audiovisual works, motion pictures, videos, video games

Biography & Links:

This is a limited list of sources.

 “Copyright law for librarians and educators: creative strategies and practical solutions” by Kenneth D Crews & Dwayne K Buttler, 2006 2nd ed.

Alkek Reference, call number KF2995 .C74 2005

“Making copyright work for your library” (videocassette) by Joseph Barillari,  Jim Nocera,  Bonnie E Farnon,  Mike Jackson,  Carrie Russell,  Kenneth Crews,  Edward Valauskas, &  John W Berry, 2004

Alkek call number Z649.F35 M34 2004

“Copyright essentials for librarians and educators” by Kenneth D Crews, 2000

Alkek call number KF2995 .C74 2000

“Copyright in the new millennium: the impact of recent changes to U.S. copyright law” (videocassette) ... presented by American Association of Law Libraries ... et al, 1999

Alkek call number KF2995 .C67 1999

“Libraries, copyright, and the Internet” (videocassette) American Library Association, 1999

Alkek call number KF2995 .L53 1999

“Am I a crook? copyright issues on the Internet” (videocassette) with panel:  Bob Crook, Bruce Deck, Marilyn Herridge, J Ryan Caruthers, Shelli Lockhart, Georgia Harper, Steven J McDonald, Janis H Bruwelheide, 1998

Alkek call number KF2994 .A75 1998

“Growing pains: adapting copyright for libraries, education, and society” by Laura N Gasaway, 1997

Alkek call number KF3030.1 .G7 1997

“Libraries and copyright : a guide to copyright law in the 1990s” by Laura N. Gasaway and Sarah K. Wiant, 1994

Alkek call number KF3030.1 .G37 1994

“Copyright, fair use, and the challenge for universities: promoting the progress of higher education” by Kenneth D Crews, 1993

Alkek call number Z649.F35 C74 1993

Gasaway's Public Domain Chart (2003, Univ. of North Carolina):

http://www.unc.edu/~unclng/public-d.htm

US Copyright Law:

http://www.copyright.gov/title17/

Copyright Basics:

http://www.copyright.gov/circs/circ1.html

Copyright Guidelines, Texas State:

http://www.txstate.edu/effective/upps/upps-01-04-22.html
http://www.txstate.edu/effective/upps/upps-01-04-25.html

University of Texas tutorial on copyright (2001):

http://www.utsystem.edu/OGC/IntellectualProperty/cprtindx.htm

University of Texas guidelines for image management (2002):

http://www.utsystem.edu/ogc/intellectualproperty/image.htm

University of Texas tutorial on getting permissions to copy (2004): 

http://www.utsystem.edu/ogc/intellectualproperty/PERMISSN.htm

Copyright Clearance Center: 

http://www.copyright.com/ccc/home.do

Texas State Copyright Wiki on Tracs 
(Join as a member to view copyright information prepared by ITS.)

https://tracs.txstate.edu/portal/login

Instructions:

• Log on to Tracs
• In left column, choose membership
• At top, choose joinable sites
• Click on the copyright site

Site Description:  This site is about copyright issues that may affect instructors and others who use TRACS or other online systems.

Our aim is to provide information on the use of copyrighted materials in the classroom, whether that classroom is in a real or virtual setting.