The following is a selective list of books that can be found in the Ellender Memorial Library on the subject of copyright, sorted by Dewey call number, and to a list of important recent articles on Copyright issues. To find more books, search the library's Online Public Access Catalog using the keyword copyright, and to find more articles, visit the library's electronic databases:

Personal Author: Crews, Kenneth D.
Title: Copyright, Fair Use, and the Challenge for Universities: Promoting the Progress of Higher Education

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025.12 C867c	STACKS

Personal Author: ---
Title: Intellectual Property in the Age of Universal Access

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346.048 In8p	STACKS

Personal Author: Fishman, Stephen
Title: The Copyright Handbook: How to Protect and Use Written Works

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346.0482 F539c	STACKS

Personal Author: Gasaway, Laura N.
Title: Libraries and Copyright: a Guide to Copyright Law in the 1990s

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346.0482 G21L	STACKS

Personal Author: Goldstein, Paul, 1943-
Title: Copyright's Highway: from Gutenberg to the Celestial Jukebox

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346.0482 G578c	STACKS

Personal Author: Bielefield, Arlene
Title: Technology and Copyright Law: a Guidebook for the Library, Research, and Teaching Professions

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346.730482 B476t	STACKS

This article, available through our Lexis Nexis database, relates how The Grey Album, by record producer D. J. Danger Mouse, combines the vocals from rapper Jay-Z's The Black Album with the music of the Beatles' White Album, to produce what has become an underground sensation since it surfaced free on the internet in January 2004. However, EMI Music has sent a cease-and-desist order to the L.A.-based artist and to outlets that were selling the work because of issues such as the appropriation of protected material, even when no monetary gain results.
Cromelin, Richard (2004, Feb. 14). "Stop the Music: Danger Mouse Didn't Have Permission to Mix Works by Jay-Z and the Beatles." Los Angeles Times

The article presents information on international laws for information providers and the Internet. Global influence creates significant legal problems for information providers, such as identifying and selecting jurisdictions, determining the applicable law, and enforcing intellectual property rights. Partial solutions to these problems take one of two forms. In some cases, information providers take steps to ensure that their content complies with as many countries' law as possible.
Pike, George H. (2004, Jan., Vol. 21.1). "New International IP Laws on the Horizon." Information Today

Nixon reviews relevant copyright and contract laws to show that academic library ILL departments are adversely affected by new laws intended to reduce legitimate access to copyrighted materials.
Nixon, Donna (2003, Vol. 13.3). "Copyright and Interlibrary Loan Rights." Journal of Interlibrary Loan

This article discusses digital information technologies that have led to a dramatic change in the production, reproduction and dissemination of information products. It explains that the legal framework for this change is largely provided by copyright, even though it is still rather uncertain how copyright should react to the technological and corresponding economic changes.
Dreier, Thomas; Nolte, Georg. (2003, Vol. 23.4). "Digital Copyright and Value Added Information Services." Information Services and Use

Rowland discusses how news reporting plays an important sociological and political function in forming public opinion and thereby assisting in the democratic process but the publication of newspapers is also a lucrative business. She explains that the Internet and world wide web have revolutionized the ways in which news can be received and accessed thereby creating a perceived threat to traditional print newspapers, and examines the attempted reliance on copyright law and related intellectual property rights such as the database right by established print newspapers to control the dissemination of news on the Internet.
Rowland, Diane. (2003, July, Vol. 17.2). "Whose News? Copyright and the Dissemination of News on the Internet." International Review of Law, Computers and Technology

Fair use doctrine in copyright law is undergoing a subtle and insidious shift. This article traces how fair use, which began life as a judge-made defense to copyright infringement, is now one of the most important statutory limits on the monopoly power of copyright owners to control the dissemination of their works, especially after the United States Supreme Court's 1994 decision in Campbell v. Acuff-Rose Music, Inc.
Bunker, Matthew D. (2002, Vol. 17.1). "Eroding Fair Use: The "Transformative" Use Doctrine After Campbell." Communication Law and Policy

Andera L. Foster interviews Stan Leibowitz, a professor of managerial economics at the University of Texas in Dallas, on the protection of copyrighted materials, on subjects such as the application of the digital rights management to college students; incentives for using the model; issues on copyright law; and the impact of Napster's case on the recording industry.
Foster, Andera L. (2002, Feb., Vol. 48.21). "Economics Professor Backs Technology to Protect Copyrighted Materials." Chronicle of Higher Education