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Wilson OmniFile Full Text - Choose Library Literature and Information Science Full Text . This portion of the Wilson Omnifile database contains articles and book reviews in more than 234 key library and information science periodicals with full-text coverage of selected publications.

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Who Owns Information?: From Privacy To Public Access. Branscomb, Anne W. New York: Basic Books, 1994. KF 2979 .B67 1994

The Copyright Primer For Librarians and Educators. 2nd. edit. Bruwelheide, Janis H. Chicago: American Library Association, 1995. Z 649 .F35 B78 1995

Libraries and Copyright: A Guide To Copyright Law In the 1990's. Gasaway, Laura. Washington D.C.: Special Libraries Association, 1994. KF 3030.1 .G37 1994

Copyright's Highway: From Gutenberg To the Celestial Jukebox. Goldstein, Paul. NY: Hill & Wang, 1994. KF 2994 .G654 1994

Getting permission : how to license & clear copyrighted materials online & off. Stim, Richard. Berkeley, CA: Nolo.com, 2001. REF KF3024 .C6 S75 2001

Pellissippi State Policy 06:11:01 Use of Copyrighted Materials (http://www.pstcc.edu/misc/ppm/06-11-01.htm)

Copyright Law of the United States (http://lcweb.loc.gov/copyright/title17/) - The online version of the U.S. Copyright law is in text (HTML) format and Adobe Acrobat PDF format.

Copyright Search (http://www.copyright.gov) Search copyright information at the Library of Congress.

University of Texas System -- Copyright Management System (http://www.utsystem.edu/OGC/IntellectualProperty/cprtindx.htm) - Crash Course in Copyright.

Copyright & Fair Use/Stanford University (http://fairuse.stanford.edu/) - thorough treatment of the issue of fair use in copyright.

Cornell University (http://www.law.cornell.edu/topics/copyright.html) - an overview of copyright.

Copyright Clearance Center (http://www.copyright.com/) - Copyright Clearance Center, Inc., the largest licenser of photocopy reproduction rights in the world, was formed in 1978 to facilitate compliance with U.S. copyright law. The company currently manages rights relating to over 1.75 million works and represents more than 9,600 publishers and hundreds of thousands of authors and other creators, directly or through their representatives. CCC-licensed customers in the U.S. number over 9,000 corporations and subsidiaries (including 90 of the Fortune 100 companies), as well as thousands of government agencies, law firms, document suppliers, libraries, academic institutions, copy shops and bookstores.

Cease and Desist Information (http://www.chillingeffects.org) Website created by the Electronic Frontier Foundation and several law schools to provide information about First Amendment freedoms and online rights to recipients of cease-and-desist letters regarding webpage content.