Becker Medical Library Scholarly Communications » Fair Use http://beckerinfo.net/scp The Blog for the WUSM Scholarly Communications Initiative Mon, 16 Jan 2012 19:40:06 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1 New Slide-Rule for Assessing Copyright Status http://beckerinfo.net/scp/2008/07/18/new-slide-rool-for-assessing-copyright-status/ http://beckerinfo.net/scp/2008/07/18/new-slide-rool-for-assessing-copyright-status/#comments Fri, 18 Jul 2008 14:41:53 +0000 Cathy http://beckerinfo.net/scp/?p=71 The American Library Association’s Office for Information Technology Policy recently created a slide-rule to help determine if a particular work is copyright protected. Pointing the red arrow to the date of first publication of the work provides information on the copyright status of the work.

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Three prominent academic publishers are suing Georgia State University, contending that the school is violating copyright laws.

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