Intellectual Property

• Copyright and Libraries
• Information on Copyright and Intellectual Property
  Copyright information for the Johns Hopkins community.
• Copyright and Interlibrary Loan
  General information on library copying as it relates to interlibrary loan.
• U. S. Copyright Office
  General information and publications.
• Copyright Clearance Center Online
  Provides authorized users with a lawful means for making photocopies from its repertoire of more than 1.75 million titles.
• Copyright Management Center
  Offers guidance on fair use, distance learning, multimedia, and more; links to an interactive form for registering copyright and to legal resources on the subject.
• Copyright and Fair Use
  Searchable site providing extensive coverage of current legislation, cases, and issues, among other topics; sponsored by the Council on Library Resources, FindLaw Internet Legal Resources, and Stanford University Libraries and Academic Information Resources.
• Copyright and Intellectual Property (ARL)
  Links to numerous related pages, such as Digital Millenium Copyright Act Status and Analysis, maintained by the Association of Research Libraries.
• Office for Intellectual Freedom (ALA)
Links to numberous related pages, maintained by the American Library Association.
• Information Issues and Policy (MLA)
Links to numberous related pages, maintained by the Medical Library Association.
• When Works Pass into the Public Domain
  Chart prepared by Laura Gasaway itemizing date of work (6 options), the work's effective date of copyright protection, and the term of its protection

Licensing Agreements

• Liblicense: Licensing Digital Information
  Comprehensive analysis of licensing agreements for digital information provided by Yale University Library; includes definitions of words and phrases commonly found in licensing agreements, examples of publishers' licenses, and more

Related articles from Welch Library Issues (Vol. 8, no. 2, April 1996)

• Coming Changes in Copyright Law: What Will Be the Cost of Fair Use of Information?
• Fair Use in the Electronic Age: Comments on Intellectual Property and the National Information Infrastructure
• Fair Use: Staying on the Right Side of the Copyright Law
• Johns Hopkins University Policy on Software Duplication

Patents and Trademarks

• U. S. Patent and Trademark Office
  Offers searches of databases of patents, as well as general information for newcomers to patents and trademarks

Updated 3/22/2008