Copyright Essentials for Librarians and Educators - Softcover

Crews, Kenneth D.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0838907970 ISBN 13: 9780838907979

Publisher: ALA Editions, 2001

Synopsis

For those professionals in the business of serving up information to the public, the evolving digital age presents new and complicated challenges. As new formats and delivery methods make duplication and transfer of information so easy, librarians and educators must make informed and legal decisions about how they will protect copyright. Attorney, librarian, researchers and author Kenneth Crews boils down all of this expertise in this up-to-date reference designed to instruct today's information providers on the fundamentals of current copyright law. Enhanced with margin notes highlighting recent developments and seven helpful appendices of checklists and legislation summaries, this basic yet comprehensive manual answers the key questions, including: what makes a work copyright-protected or not?; how long do copyrights last?; what are the rights of copyright owners?; how can I determine what qualifies as fair use?; and what are the need-to-knows regarding copyright and the Internet? A project of the Copyright Management Centre (Indiana University-Purdue University), this work is a one-stop resource for understanding and applying copyright law.

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About the Author

Kenneth Crews is a professor at Indiana University in the School of Law and in the School of Library and Information Science. He also serves as Associate Dean of the Faculties for Copyright Management, and in that capacity, directs Indiana University's Copyright Management Center. For 10 years, he practiced general business and corporate law in Los Angeles, primarily in the entertainment industry. Crews is the author of Copyright, Fair Use, and the Challenge for Universities: Promoting the Progress of Higher Education, published by University of Chicago Press in 1993.

Edition details

• Publisher: ALA Editions
• Publication date: 2001
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0838907970
• ISBN 13: 9780838907979
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 160