Copyright for Students. An Iowa Heartland AEA guidebook by Susan Shraeder. Web developers should pay special attention to the section on Creating Web Sites. For further informaiton about "deep linking" to other sites, see also, the American Library Association's Hypertext Linking and Copyright Issues article.

 

United States Copyright Office. The U.S. Copyright Act of 1976 gives the copyright owner exclusive rights to his or her published or unpublished works.

 

A Visit to Copyright Bay is a visual copyright tutorial available from the University of St. Francis in Joliet Illinois  The Background Beach will give you background on the Copyright Law of 1976.

 

What is Fair Use? - an article from the American Library Association with an explanation of Fair Use, which was added as section 107 of the Copyright Act of 1976. ALA explains that this section was not meant to be specific. This section does not give any numerical guidelines for quantities of materials of length of time they may be used. 

 

The Fair Use Guide for Educational Multimedia says is an interpretation of Fair Use by a groups of over 20 organizations and professional association who agreed upon fair use interpretations for multimedia in 1996. It provides suggestions of numerical quantities of intellectual property that may reasonably be used with appropriate citations of sources. Se guidelines 5.3 and 6.4 for discussion of what is reasonable for web sites versus other mediums.