Copyright

BCC Copyright Policy
Read BCC's Copyright Guidelines

BCC's "Request for Copyright Clearance" Form
BCC's form to apply for copyright clearance. If you have questions about copyright clearance, please contact Myra Van Vactor, LMC Director at 425-564-3056 or mvanvact@bcc.ctc.edu.

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Copyright Law – full text
Text of United States Code Title 17

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The American Library Association website contains a great deal of materials discussing current issues with copyright and intellectual freedom.
Visit the ALA "Issues" page to learn more

Association of Research Libraries' links to Fair Use, Copyright, and Intellectual Property
Includes legal decisions, copyright related legislation, Digital Future Coalition, AFFECT, EDUCAUSE, and DMCA.

Copyright & Fair Use
Stanford University's fair use site. Good links on current copyright legislation and multimedia issues.

Copyright Clearance Center, Inc.
Electronic Course Content Service (ECCS) provides a convenient method for obtaining permission to use copyrighted material in a digitized format for academic use. Rightsholder can register their copyright material free.

The Copyright Website
One can coypright online assets online through the copyright wizard. Multimedia issues and infringements are illustrated and discussed.

Crash Course in Copyright
Univerisity of Texas provides a 'Crash Course' in copyright.

Digital Millenium Copyright Act (DMCA)
Text of DMCA, signed into law October 28, 1998 as Public Law 105-304

Technology, Education and Copyright Harmonization Act (the TEACH Act)
Part of the larger Justice Reauthorization legislation (H.R. 2215), was signed into law by President Bush on November 2, 2002. TEACH redefines the terms and conditions on which accredited, nonprofit educational institutions throughout the U.S. may use copyright protected materials in distance education-including on websites and by other digital means--without permission from the copyright owner and without payment of royalties.

United States Copyright Office

UW Copyright Connection
This site from the University of Washington answers questions that you may have about using items created by others, whether others can use items you've created and general information on copyright and how to interpret the law.

World Intellectual Property Organization
Deals with copyright and related rights and industrial property (patents, trademarks, geographical indications, etc.) from an international perspective.