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Teaching on the Internet:
Copyright

Summer, 1996
University of Missouri-St. Louis

Course Goals

Upon completion, students attending will be familiar with basic copyright laws and issues. The focus will be on preparing attenders to wrestle with the issues of copyright themselves by developing an appropriate vocabulary, and familiarizing them with the resources needed to research and understand copyright issues. This course will not be preparation for practicing law in the field of copyright and intellectual property.

Course Schedule

Course Materials

Course Items Public Domain Works Articles Elsewhere Printed Works at UMSL Internet Links

Course Specific Materials

Muns, Raleigh C., As of 1996, Is This Item in the Public Domain?, St. Louis, MO : s.n. ; c1996
(6/3/96 http://www.umsl.edu/services/copyrite/copyexp.htm)

Public Domain Works HERE

Berne Convention Implementation Act of 1988
(5/21/96 http://www.umsl.edu/services/summer/copyrite/berne.txt)

Community for Creative Non-Violence v. Reid (Works for Hire)
(5/24/96 http://www.umsl.edu/services/summer/copyrite/communi.txt)

Copyright Basics, Circular 1 (3/28/96)
(5/21/96 http://www.umsl.edu/services/summer/copyrite/circ01.htm)

Copyright Office Circulars
(5/21/96 http://www.umsl.edu/services/summer/copyrite/circular.htm)

Depository Library Program
(5/21/96 http://www.umsl.edu/services/summer/copyrite/deplib.txt)

Feist Publications Inc. v. Rural Telephone Service Co. (Telephone White Pages NOT Copyrightable - "Sweat of the Brow")
(5/21/96 http://www.umsl.edu/services/summer/copyrite/feist.txt)

Religious Technology Center v. Netcom Online Communication Services, Inc. (Responsibility of Internet Provider for Client Copyright Violations)
(5/21/96 http://www.umsl.edu/services/summer/copyrite/scientol.txt)

Title 17, United States Code, Copyright
(5/21/96 http://www.umsl.edu/services/summer/copyrite/copr1976.txt)

Universal Copyright Convention
(5/21/96 http://www.umsl.edu/services/summer/copyrite/copuniv.txt)

Links to Full-text Articles on the Internet:

Barlow, John Perry, "The Economy of Ideas," WIRED 2.03, c1993 (5/17/1996 - http://www.hotwired.com/wired/2.03/features/economy.ideas.html)

Demac, Donna A, "Property Rights in the Electronic Dawn," Originally published in REFLEX, August/September 1994 (5/17/1996 - http://www.nlc-bnc.ca/documents/infopol/copyright/demac2.htm)

Dyson, Esther, "Intellectual Value," WIRED 3.07 (5/17/1996 - http://www.hotwired.com/wired/3.07/features/dyson.html)

Elias, Steve, "Nolo Press - Copyrights in Cyberspace" originally in Summer 1994 issue of Nolo News (5/17/1996 - http://www.benedict.com/copynolo.htm)

Rose, Lance, - "Is Copyright Dead on the Net?" WIRED 1.5: Idees Fortes, c1995
(5/17/1996 - http://www.hotwired.com/wired/1.5/departments/idees.fortes/copyright.on.net.html)

Samuelson, Pamela, "The Copyright Grab," WIRED 4.01, c1995 (5/17/1996 - http://www.hotwired.com/wired/4.01/features/white.paper.html)

Printed Works Held at the Thomas Jefferson Library:

Cavazos, Edward A. and Morin, Gavino, Cyberspace and the law : your rights and duties in the on-line world, Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c1994. (Loc: TJL REF LAW Call No.: KF2765 .C38 1994)

Gasaway, Laura N., Copyright law in the age of technology : course materials, Chapel Hill, N.C. : s.n. ; c1994. Loc: (TJL REF LAW Call No.: KF2995 .G37 1994)

Gasaway, Laura N. and Wiant, Sarah K., Libraries and copyright : a guide to copyright law in the 1990s, Washington, DC : Special Libraries Association, c1994. (Loc: TJL REF LAW Call No.: KF3030.1 .G37 1994)

Miller, Arthur Raphael and Davis, Michael H., Intellectual property : patents, trademarks, and copyright in a nutshell, St. Paul, Minn. : West Pub. Co., 1990. 2nd ed. (Loc: TJL REF LAW Call No.: KF2980 .M52 1990)

Nimmer, Melville B., Cases and materials on copyright and other aspects of entertainment litigation illustrated : including unfair competition, defamation, privacy, St. Paul, Minn. : West Pub. Co., 1985., 3rd ed. (Loc: TJL REF L AW Call No.: KF2993 .N54 1985)

Norwick, Kenneth P and Chasen, Jerry Simon, The rights of authors, artists, and other creative people: the basic ACLU guide to author and artist rights , Carbondale : Southern Illinois University Press, c1992., 2nd ed., completel y rev. and up-to-date. (Loc: TJL REF LAW Call No.: KF390.A96 N67 1992)

Rose, Lance, NetLaw : your rights in the online world, Berkeley, Calif. : Osborne McGraw-Hill, c1995.(Loc: TJL REF LAW Call No.: KF390.5.C6 R68 1995)

Internet Links to Useful Sites Dealing With Copyright

Code of Federal Regulations Search
(5/21/1996 URL http://law.house.gov/cfr.htm)

The Copyright Website
(5/21/1996 URL http://www.benedict.com/)

Hot Property: Bibliography
(5/21/1996 URL http://www.rpi.edu/dept/llc/intelprop/web/biblio1.html)

Hot Property: Hyperlinked Bibliography
(5/21/1996 URL http://www.rpi.edu/dept/llc/intelprop/web/biblio2.html)

Infoseek : Copyright
(6/6/1996 URL http://guide-p.infoseek.com/DB?tis=475&tid=165&db=118&sv=IS&lk=noframes&col=WW&st=0)

Title 17 United States Code(01/24/94)
(5/21/1996 URL http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/index.html)

Title 37 Code of Federal Regulations
(5/21/1996 URL http://www.law.cornell.edu/copyright/regulations/regs.overview.html)

U.S. Code Search
(5/21/1996 URL http://law.house.gov/usc.htm)

U.S. Copyright Law via Cornell
(5/21/1996 URL http://www.law.cornell.edu/topics/copyright.html)

U.S. Copyright Office Home Page
(5/21/1996 URL http://lcweb.loc.gov/copyright/)

U.S. House of Representatives Internet Law Library
(5/21/1996 URL http://law.house.gov/)

Wiretap Gopher: Copyright
(5/21/1996 URL gopher://wiretap.spies.com/11/Gov/Copyright)

Yahoo! - Government:Law:Intellectual Property:Copyrights
(5/21/1996 URL http://www.yahoo.com/Government/Law/Intellectual_Property/Copyrights/)

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