Intellectual Property Resources

• U.S. State Dept Page: What is Intellectual Property?

• Table from Berkeley with types of intellectual property and their characteristics

• Northwestern University: Types of IP

• YouTube Video of a U.S. Patent Attorney's talk about Types of IP

• Trade Dress Basics (an element of trademark law)

• SI 519/PubPol 688: Intellectual Property and Information Law (dScribed Fall 08)

• Copyright Jeopardy (PPT)

• Casebook of content object examples

• Fair use exploration project

Copyright Overviews

• Copyright Comic - Duke University

• Copyright Basics - University of Michigan

• Copyright Basics - U.S. Copyright Office

• Dutch website on Copyright in Higher Education

• JISC Copyright Toolbox

Fair Use

• fair use: four factors - Stanford

• Berkman Center: Fair Use - Harvard

• Center for Social Media: Fair Use - American University

• Copyright Advisory Network - Fair Use Evaluator

Amusing videos on copyright - good conversation starters

• Creative Commons: Why You Should Share: http://creativecommons.org/videos/a-shared-culture
• Fair(y) Use: http://cyberlaw.stanford.edu/documentary-film-program/film/a-fair-y-use-tale (10 min)
• Copyright, What's Copyright? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0QiO_H0-ok8
• What is the Purpose of Copyright? Interviews w/ passersby in Chicago http://www.questioncopyright.org/node/10
• "User Rights, Section 107 Music Video", Media Education Lab at Temple University http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8tWhKeb-fUQ
• Weasel Televisual Enterprises (WTE) - "a mix of educational videos aimed at librarians, information scientists and library readers."

• Librarian's Guide to...Understanding Academic Copyright (with puppets): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7giW7efQggo

Public Domain

• Public Domain slider - American Library Association (ALA)