Introduction to U.S. Copyright (Title 17 U.S.C.)
What Is Not Protected By Copyright
Ideas, Methods, or Systems are not subject to copyright
protection. Copyright protection, therefore, is not available for: ideas or procedures for doing, making, or building things; scientific or technical methods or discoveries; business operations or procedures; mathematical principles; formulas, algorithms; or any other concept, process, or method of operation.
Section 102 of the copyright law, Title 17, United States Code, clearly expresses this principle: "In no case does copyright protection for an original work of authorship extend to any idea, procedure, process, system, method of operation, concept, principle, or discovery, regardless of the form in which it is described, explained, illustrated, or embodied in such work."
Title 17 U.S. Code--COPYRIGHTS
Section 106: Exclusive rights in copyrighted works
Section 107: Limitations on Exclusive Rights: Fair Use
Section 108: Limitations on Exclusive Rights: Reproduction by Libraries And Archives
Chapter 1: Subject Matter and Scope of Copyright [Circular 92]
Copyright Office, Library of Congress -- Copyright Circulars
Princeton University Guidelines
As University Policy states:
Members of the University community who engage in any activity that
infringes copyright-protected materials may be subject to disciplinary
action. Under circumstances involving repeated instances of
infringement through the use of the University's computing network, such
disciplinary action may include the termination or suspension of network
privileges.
Further information about appropriate uses of University technology may
be found in the University Guidelines
(http://www.princeton.edu/guidelines ). Additional information about
copyright and technology at the University may be seen in "Guard against
illegal use of copyrighted materials" (http://kb.princeton.edu/9407 )
and the University's Guidelines for Instructional Use
(http://infoshare1.princeton.edu/reserves/libcitcopyright.html ). Princeton Library has copyright information for course reserve materials (http://infoshare1.princeton.edu/reserves/copyright.html). More
information regarding copyright generally may be viewed at the United
States Copyright Office web site (http://lcweb.loc.gov/copyright).
University Copyright Websites
Copyright Permissions
American Chemical Society
Publications Division, Instructions for Authors and Editors
Copyright Permission Pages
A Service of the Professional Center Library for Law and Management, Wake Forest University
http://www.law.wfu.edu/library/copyright/
Although this website was put together by a law school, it is useful for
anyone needing copyright permission information in all subjects.
This website was designed by the staff of the Professional Center Library
for Law and Management at Wake Forest University. The goal of our website
is to make it easier for a teacher and/or scholar to obtain permission to
use a copyrighted work for teaching or scholarly activities. It
accomplishes this objective by bringing together in one place links to the
copyright permission webpages of publishers and journals.
"Our website is a web of links. There are four types of links available --
Publishers, an alphabetically-arranged list of links to publishers'
websites; Journals, an alphabetically-arranged list of journals linked to
their websites; Forms, Letters and Other Resources, a collection of links
to various websites that have standard forms, sample letters or policies;
and Other Copyright Websites, a collection of links to other copyright
webpages containing more substantive information on copyright issues."
AAP: Association of American Publishers, Inc.
http://www.publishers.org/home/index.htm
Readings
German Copyright Law (Urheberrechtsgesetz, UrhG) [In the version published on 9 September 1965, as last amended on 8 May 1998]
Source: http://www.iuscomp.org/gla/statutes/UrhG.htm
(§ 53) concerning the rules for copies for private and other use.
"German Law in English: A select bibliography", a bibliography of German Copyrght Law in English
http://www.iuscomp.org/gla/literature/daad93/daad93-23.htm
Law for the regulation of the basic conditions fur information and communication
services (information and communication service law - IuKDG) ; Modification of the copyright law
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