Copyright 101: A Basic Guide

Fear and uncertainty about copyright law often plagues educators and sometimes prevents creative teaching. This course is a professional development opportunity designed to provide a basic introduction to US copyright law and to empower teachers and librarians at all grade levels. Course participants will discover that the law is designed to help educators and librarians.

The toolkit is an educational resource primarily directed to librarians to assist them with integrating a scholarly communication perspective into library operations and programs, and preparing presentations on scholarly communication issues for administrators, faculty, staff, students, or other librarians.

A non-profit organization that works to increase the amount of scholarly works (cultural, educational, and scientific content) in "the commons" — the body of work that is available to the public for free and legal sharing, use, re-purposing, and re-mixing.

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Authors Alliance is a nonprofit organization that promotes authorship for the public good by supporting authors who write to be read. Pursuant to this mission, Authors Alliance created this guide to help authors understand and evaluate opportunities to make their works openly accessible.