Copyright Resources

Frequently Asked Questions:

Q. How do I place materials on reserve in the Library?

A. See: Placing Materials on Reserve and Copyright Compliance for Reserve Materials

Q. What is "Fair Use"?

A. CETUS (Consortium for Educational Technology in University Systems) offers an electronic version of Fair Use of Copyrighted Works. The University of Texas has published Fair Use of Copyrighted Materials as part of their Crash Course in Copyright.

Q. Where can I get a copyright permission request form?

A. The University of Texas has posted an example permission request form and the University of Maryland has posted an example letter. The Copyright Clearance Center offers a FEE service, the Permissions Online Service.

Q. How can I contact the publishers?

A. Current UCF faculty and students can find contact information for publishers from the UCF Library home page. For book publishers, click on "Database Titles A-L", and select "Books in Print". For journal publishers, click on "Database Titles M-Z", and select "Ulrich's International Periodical Directory". NOTE: You will need to set up a PROXY connection to access either of these databases from off-campus.

Q. Where can I obtain a copyright application form for an original work?

A. The UCF Office of Research and Commercialization has posted copyright and patent disclosure forms available online.

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U. S. Government Copyright Related Sites:

• U. S. Copyright Office
• U. S. Copyright Office - Frequently Asked Questions
• U. S. Copyright Office - Registration Procedures
• Copyright Law: Title 17 of the U.S. Code
• Code of Federal Regulations, Title 37 - Patents, Trademarks, and Copyrights
• Digital Millennium Copyright Act*

*(this is a PDF file, you will need to have Adobe Acrobat Reader installed on your computer).

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Online Tutorials and Lessons

• Copyright Tutorial (from the University of Texas at Austin).
• Crash Course in Copyright (from the University of Texas at Austin).

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Copyright and Distance Education:

• AAUP Resources on Distance Education (from the American Association of University Professors).
• Copyright Law for Distance Learning (from the University of Texas).
• Copyright Office Study on Distance Education (from the U.S. Copyright Office).

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Internet Resource Sites for Copyright Information:

• Copyright, Fair Use and the Education Dilemma (from the University of Central Florida).
• Copyright and Fair Use (from Sanford University).
• Scholarly Communication (from Tufts University).

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Selected Print Materials:

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