Licensing and Negotiation Skills: Copyright and Intellectual Property Rights
Resources and training materials which provide information about copyright and intellectual property policies and laws. An understanding of copyright law is important when negotiating licenses and also advising users about fair use and how they may use resources available from the library. The list is by no means exhaustive, so if you have additional resources you would like us to include please contact inasp@inasp.info
Copyright & Intellectual Property Policies
Association of Research Libraries (ARL)
Updating copyright and intellectual property laws to meet the challenges of the networked environment has been a key focus for Congress, the courts, and state legislatures for several years. This page provides information and background on this subject.
Copyright for Librarians
Copyright for Librarians course is a joint project of the Berkman Center for Internet & Society and Electronic Information for Libraries (eIFL). The materials can be used as a basis for a self-taught course, or in a traditional classroom-based course. The goal of the project is to provide librarians in developing and transitional countries information concerning copyright law. More specifically, it aspires to inform librarians concerning copyright law in general / the aspects of copyright law that most affect libraries how librarians in the future could most effectively participate in the processes by which copyright law is interpreted and shaped.
This toolkit provides practical, pragmatic advice, within an understanding of the legal framework, on how to license copyright works, who to approach, how best to approach them and how to negotiate the best deal. Funded by eduserv.
Guidelines for Fair Dealing in an Electronic Environment
This Guide has been endorsed by both the Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) and the Publishers Association (PA). It provides advice on the application of the fair dealing and library privilege permissions in the Copyright Designs and Patents Act (CDPA) and associated Statutory Instruments to activities in Higher Education that involve the creation or use of electronic materials. The Guide deals primarily with research or private study copying of Literary Works and provides advice on what activities JISC and the PA agree constitute fair dealing, and therefore requiring no permission, and what activities they agree do not constitute fair dealing and therefore requiring permission from the copyright owner before carrying out such activities.
Teaching Copyright
Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF)
EFF's Teaching Copyright curriculum was created to help teachers present the laws surrounding digital rights in a balanced way.
Teaching Copyright provides lessons and ideas for opening your classroom up to discussion, letting your students express their ideas and concerns, and then guiding your students toward an understanding of the boundaries of copyright law.
- Reflect on what they already know about copyright law.
- See the connection between the history of innovation and the history of copyright law.
- Learn about fair use, free speech, and the public domain and how those concepts relate to using materials created by others.
- Experience various stakeholders' interests and master the principles of fair use through a mock trial.
Links to licensing and negotiation skills resources
Licensing and Negotiation Skills
Online resources
Glossaries and model licenses
Books and Reference Works