Further resources
Please watch the YouTube Copyright School video below for a fun and quick overview of the world of copyright!
In European Union countries, the Commission website has some helpful information and links: http://ec.europa.eu/information_society/eyouguide/navigation/index_en.htm.
WIPO has a list of Intellectual Property and Copyright Offices internationally, you can find the one applicable for your country here: http://www.wipo.int/directory/en/urls.jsp
See http://www.copyright.gov/circs/circ1.pdf for more information about U.S. copyright law.
For more information on US copyright law and fair use, check out the following materials.
- http://www.copyright.gov/fls/fl102.html
- http://fairuse.stanford.edu/Copyright_and_Fair_Use_Overview/chapter9/
- http://www.copyrightwebsite.com/Info/Law/FairUse.aspx
- http://chillingeffects.org/fairuse/
The School of Communication American University Center for Social Media has a helpful Code of Best Practices in Fair Use for Scholarly Research in Communication you may wish to visit.
The Electronic Frontier Foundation provides a database of copyright laws around the world at http://copyright-watch.org.
Take the mystery out of copyright on the Library of Congress site: http://www.loc.gov/teachers/copyrightmystery
You can also visit the Glossary of YouTube terms we've compiled!