Reading Time: 3 minutes Digital collections have the exciting ability to shed light upon and provide accessibility to materials that had previously been hidden within locked rooms in the library building. By digitizing and sharing material online, libraries can facilitate advancements in research that were hindered …Continue Reading
Tag: Copyright
Catalog of Copyright Entries Project
Reading Time: < 1 minute Before 1976, copyright protection was a lot different than it is today. Material published with a © notice and registered with the U.S. Copyright Office between 1923 and 1963 were only granted 28 years of copyright protection with an optional 28 year …Continue Reading
Free to use media for your projects
Reading Time: 2 minutes Imagine you are putting together the slides for a presentation. Knowing that it is much better to use the slides as dynamic visual aids and not load them with text, you are looking for a picture to help get your point across. …Continue Reading
Digital Collections Rights Statements
Reading Time: 2 minutes Our online world has made finding information and media easier than ever, but knowing what can be done with that material, legally, isn’t always clear. U.S. Copyright law and international trade agreements mean that most of the material you may find online …Continue Reading
Celebrating Fair Use/Fair Dealing Week 2019
Reading Time: < 1 minute Fair Use week, from February 25 to March 1 in 2019, is a community celebration of fair use coordinated by the Association of Research Libraries. Each day teachers, students, researchers and consumers benefit from copyrighted information because of the fair use exception …Continue Reading
Celebrating the Public Domain: 19 in 2019
Reading Time: 3 minutes What is the public domain? The public domain consists of material that is not protected by copyright and is therefore considered to belong to everyone for every kind of use (find more info on the copyright guide). Items enter the public domain …Continue Reading
Help Us Celebrate the Public Domain
Reading Time: < 1 minute Digital Scholarship Services at the USF Libraries is planning a celebration of the public domain in January 2019. We have compiled a list of items in our collections and now we need your help in picking out what we are going to …Continue Reading
Openly Accessible v. Open Access v. Free to Use
Reading Time: < 1 minute Many of the materials released to or shared on the internet today are openly accessible due to the very nature of the internet itself. This does not mean that they are free from copyright protection or released with any open use provisions. …Continue Reading
Introduction to Copyright Tutorial Video
Reading Time: < 1 minute Are you starting on a research project where you know you are going to include some material created by someone else? Or including copyright content in your thesis or dissertation? The library has a new tutorial video that gives an introduction to …Continue Reading