Copyright and Patents

Intellectual Property

• American Intellectual Property Law Association
• FindLaw: Intellectual Property Law
• Intellectual Property Law Server

Plagiarism

• Avoiding Plagiarism [Purdue University Online Writing Lab]
• Plagiarism [Nuts and Bolts of College Writing]
• Plagiarism and How to Avoid It [David Gardner]
• Plagiarism: What It is and How to Recognize and Avoid It [Indiana University]

Copyright Information

• Circular 21: Reproduction of Copyrighted Works by Educators and Librarians [PDF]
• Copyright and Fair Use [Stanford University Library]
• Copyright Basics
  Copyright Office Circular; .pdf version
• Copyright Clearance Center
• Copyright [Legal Information Institute, Cornell]
• Copyright Resource Links
• Copyright Website
• Crash Course in Copyright [Georgia Harper, UT System]
• Designation by Service Provider of Agent for Notification of Claims of Infringement [Copyright Office]
• Digital Millenium Copyright Act [PDF]
• Eldred vs. Reno
  Case challenging the Copyright Extension Act.
• Public Domain Music
• U.S. Copyright Office
• U.S. Copyright Office Forms [PDF formats]
• UNT Distributed Learning: Creation, Use, Ownership, Royalties, Revision and Distribution of Electronically Developed Course Materials
• UT Who Owns What?
• When Works Pass into the Public Domain [chart]

Patents and Trademarks

• Basic Facts About Trademarks [Patent Office Brochure]
• Canadian Patents Database
• Delphion Intellectual Property Network: Patent search
• European Patent Office
• General Information Concerning Patents [Patent Office Circular]
• Patent Information on the Internet [European Patent Office]
• Patent Law [Cornell]
• Software Patent Institute
• Trademark Law [Cornell]
• U.S. Patent and Trademark Office
• USPTO Web Patent Databases