Copyright & Licensing

Quick Tools:

• Columbia Univeristy Fair Use Checklist

• Fair Use Evaluator (ALA)

Further Information:

• Amherst College – Copyright & Fair Use

• “Copyright and Fair Use Overview” Xavier University Library

• Copyright.gov – Copyright Law of the United States

• Cornell University – Copyright Information Center

• “Know Your Copy Rights” Association of Research Libraries

• Nolo’s Fair Use: The Four Factors Courts Consider in a Copyright Infringement Case

• Nolo’s The ‘Fair Use’ Rule: When Use of Copyrighted Material Is Acceptable

• Stanford University

Licensing

To create open access materials you will need to apply an open license.

Creative Commons
Creative Commons helps you legally share your knowledge and creativity to build a more equitable, accessible, and innovative world.

Creative Commons Licensing (Wakelet)
This is an annotated list of resources on Creative Commons Licensing explaining the nature and usage of this type of licensing.

GNU Free Documentation License
Published software should be free software. To make it free software, you need to release it under a free software license.