LibGuides: Digital Media (B.A.S.): Copyright & Fair Use

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Copyright on Campus
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Creative Commons
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Cornell University Law School - U.S. Code: Title 17 - COPYRIGHTS

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Stanford University Libraries - What is Fair Use?

United States Copyright Office - U.S. Copyright Office Fair Use Index

What is In the Public Domain?

Public domain: The realm embracing property rights that belong to the community at large, are unprotected by copyright or patent, and are subject to appropriation by anyone.

http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/public%20domain

Creative Commons: Creative Commons is a nonprofit organization that enables the sharing and use of creativity and knowledge through free legal tools.

https://creativecommons.org/about/

Tools to Help Evaluate for Fair Use

Fair Use Checklist: provides a simple overview of fair use considerations. From the Purdue University Copyright Office.

Fair Use Evaluator: helps users collect, organize, and document the information they may need to support a fair use claim, providing a time-stamped PDF document for the users’ records. Developed by the American Library Association, Office for Information Technology Policy.

Where can I find freely available stuff?

Project Gutenberg
Overs over 50,000 free online books! Download them or read them online.
Hathitrust Digital Library
Hathitrust has a partnership with over 100 research and library institutions worldwide. Their goal is to preserve these collections digitally so that they are available for future generations.
The Complete Works of William Shakespeare - MIT
Since 1993, this site has made Shakespeare's plays and poetry available online.
Bartleby Books
Bartleby's serves the academic community (and those who enjoy reading!) with free, online access to literature, reference, and poetry.
The Online Books Page - UPenn
The Online Books Page makes freely available online books easy for users to find and use by indexing over 2 million books!
The Internet Archive and Open Library
The Internet Archive and Open Library enable access to over 10 million books. The Open Library also has modern eBooks available for download.

Stock Footage
Collection of stock footage clips designed to be used in other videos.
Prelinger Archives
Founded in 1983 by Rick Prelinger, this collection was purchased by the Library of Congress, Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound Division. The collection boasts more than11,000 digitized items.
Moving Image Archive
The Moving Image Archive contains a wide variety of items (full-length films, cartoons, concerts, and news broadcasts).
Feature Films
Silent, short, and feature films available to watch or download.

Audio Archive
Download and/or listen to free MP3s from a wide ranging variety of options, including music AND old-time radio shows.
ccMixter
Music community site licensed under Creative Commons. Users can enjoy music, download it and even share it. Each item clearly tells you about its licensing details.
dig.ccMixter
Musicians upload their music to ccMixter. Users have access to these 'tunes' through dig.ccMixter.
Free Music Archive (FMA)
Launched in 2009, the FMA site provides MP3 files that are "pre-cleared for certain types of uses that would otherwise be prohibited by copyright laws that were not designed for the digital era."
International Music Score Library Project (IMSLP)
IMSLP's goal is to gather all public domain musical scores and provide them to the public for free.
musopen
"Musopen is a 501(c)(3) non-profit focused on increasing access to music by creating free resources and educational materials. We provide recordings, sheet music, and textbooks to the public for free, without copyright restrictions. Put simply, our mission is to set music free."
Mutopia Project
2,010 pieces of free sheet music, either under Creative Common licenses or in the public domain.
Open Music Archive
The Open Music Archive is a collaborative effort to "source, digitize, and distribute" music that is no longer copyrighted.
UCSB Cylinder Audio Archive
Online audio collection of American cultural cylinders (fancy word for record!).

Creative Commons Images
Creative Commons offers offer "convenient access to search services provided by other independent organizations. CC has no control over the results that are returned. Do not assume that the results displayed in this search portal are under a CC license. You should always verify that the work is actually under a CC license by following the link."
Library of Congress Prints & Photographs Online Catalog
"The Library of Congress generally does not own rights to material in its collections and, therefore, cannot grant or deny permission to publish or otherwise distribute the material. For further rights information, see "Rights Information" below and the Rights and Restrictions Information page ( http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/res/rights.html ) "
NASA Content and Images
"NASA content - images, audio, video, and computer files used in the rendition of 3-dimensional models, such as texture maps and polygon data in any format - generally are not copyrighted. You may use this material for educational or informational purposes, including photo collections, textbooks, public exhibits, computer graphical simulations and Internet Web pages. This general permission extends to personal Web pages."
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https://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/guidelines/index.html
National Gallery of Art (NGA)
The NGA offers access to "more than 45,000 open access digital images up to 4000 pixels each are available free of charge for download and use. "
U.S. Government Photos and Images
"Some of these photos are in the public domain or U.S. government works and may be used without permission or fee. However, some images may be protected by license or copyright. You should read the disclaimers on each site before using these images."
Wikimedia Commons
Wikimedia Commons is a media file repository. Much like Wikipedia, the images found here can be edited. "Everyone is allowed to copy, use and modify any files here freely as long as they follow the terms specified by the author; this often means crediting the source and author(s) appropriately and releasing copies/improvements under the same freedom to others."