Article emphasizes the difficulties in obtaining copyright permission, present contractual agreements between instructor and university for copyrighting educational materials, and protection against copyright violations. (Author)

Protecting an idea is often a difficult process. Some ideas and inventions cannot be protected, while others are eligible for only narrow or partial immunity from potential competition and imitation. Obtaining even minimal protection can often be expensive, time consuming, and ultimately result in uncertain or even negative benefits to the…

This booklet has been prepared to familiarize the inventor, creator, or developer of a new computer software product or software invention with the basic legal issues involved in developing, protecting, and distributing the software in the United States. Basic types of software protection and related legal matters are discussed in detail,…

Outlines the basic principles of the law as it pertains to the administration and use of manuscript documents. (Author/PF)

Guidelines from the Association of American Publishers designed to simplify and expedite the seeking and granting of requests from educators, librarians, and other noncommercial users to duplicate portions of copyrighted materials: when permission is needed, how to seek it, why publishers are careful about copyrights, and the purpose and history…

Under previous copyright legislation and jurisprudence, medical, and to a lesser extent, educational professionals, were afforded broad discretion under the judicially created fair use doctrine. The Copyright Act of 1976 creates a statutory definition of fair use and prescribes a test to be used in determining when a use is "fair" and…

This keyword in context index of Public Law 94-553, 90 Stat. 2541, the statute for the general revision of the Copyright Law (Title 17 of the United States Code) which was signed into law by President Gerald Ford in October 1976, is an alphabetical list of each word used in the statute, along with the words that stand immediately before and after…

This general guide to copyright in the United States briefly describes the following: the nature of copyright, who can claim it, copyright available for published and unpublished works, what can and cannot be copyrighted, how to secure a copyright, publication, notice of copyright, copyright registration, registration procedures, corrections or…

The application of copyright laws to Computer Assisted Instruction (CAI) is not a simple matter of extending traditional literary practices because of the legal complications introduced by the use of computers to store and reproduce materials. In addition, CAI courseware poses some new problems for the definitions of educational usage. Some…

To what extent and on what conditions may copies of literary and artistic works be made for educational purposes? In Sweden the main provisions pertaining to this matter are to be found as from 1 July 1973, in a special agreement and no longer in law. The agreement refers also to the right to make copies of photographs for the schools. The…

In this copyright infringment suit, the plaintiff (Williams & Wilkins Company) alleges that the defendent (Department of Health, Education and Welfare) through its agencies, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the National Library of Medicine (NLM) has infringed plaintiff's copyrights in medical journals by making unauthorized…

The relationship between Unesco's task "to promote the free flow of ideas by word and image" and the International Publishers Association's goal of the promotion, through international cooperation, of the right to culture is brought out in this speech. The cooperative efforts of the two organizations in efforts to protect creative…

The growth of cable television (CATV) will be limited unless present copyright practices are changed. The Federal Communication Commission opposes CATV's importation of distant signals because CATV is exempt from copyright liability. Now, almost all television programs are sold on the basis of long-term territorial exclusivity, which provides that…