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Newly revised to reflect copyright’s ever-changing landscape, this updated legal companion offers to-the-point guidance for dozens of situations, alongside discussion questions that will encourage learning and reflection for current practitioners and LIS students alike.
When faculty, students, and colleagues come to you with legal questions and you suddenly find yourself in the thick of a copyright conundrum, you don’t need pages of historical background information and long-winded legal explanations — you need answers, fast. Previously included in Choice's Top 75 Titles and Resources for Community College Libraries, this bestselling book gives you just that, succinctly addressing common head-scratchers and scenarios in a way that you will lead you to accurate answers quickly. Ideal for on-the-fly reference, staff training, and LIS instruction, Benson’s guide provides excerpts from the law itself alongside tools and suggested additional resources for digging deeper. Compact Copyright
- skillfully explains legal principles in plain language for more than 50 of the most common real-life scenarios library workers face;
- includes new chapters on cutting-edge developments such as AI, separability, and copyright and data;
- provides a primer on contracts and licensing basics, including Creative Commons licensing;
- explores key topics like the First Sale doctrine, Fair Use, public domain, making copies for preservation, the TEACH Act, interlibrary loan, sovereign immunity, and the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DCMA);
- offers pointers on access to copyrighted material for patrons with disabilities and other concepts related to accessibility;
- discusses select international copyright library issues; and
- includes a Fair Use checklist, copyright and film screening best practices, and additional recommended reading and materials.
Preface
Acknowledgments
Chapter 1 Copyright Basics
Chapter 2 The First Sale Doctrine
Chapter 3 The Public Domain
Chapter 4 Copyright and Data
Chapter 5 Separability
Chapter 6 Making Preservation Copies
Chapter 7 Interlibrary Loan and Unsupervised Patron Copying
Chapter 8 Access to Copyrighted Material for Patrons with Disabilities
Chapter 9 Face-to-Face Teaching Versus Public Performance Rights
Chapter 10 The TEACH Act
Chapter 11 Noncommercial Performance of Nondramatic Literary or Musical Works
Chapter 12 The Music Modernization Act
Chapter 13 Fair Use
Chapter 14 Controlled Digital Lending
Chapter 15 Artificial Intelligence and Copyright
Chapter 16 The Digital Millennium Copyright Act Circumvention Provisions
Chapter 17 The Digital Millennium Copyright Act Notice and Takedown Provisions
Chapter 18 Contracts, Licensing, and Contractual Override
Chapter 19 Creative Commons Licensing
Chapter 20 Copyright Metadata and Rights Statements
Chapter 21 The Implied License Doctrine
Chapter 22 Sovereign Immunity
Chapter 23 Select International Copyright Library Issues
Appendixes
- Appendix A Fair Use Checklist
- Appendix B Copyright and Film Screening Best Practices
- Appendix C Additional Recommended Reading and Materials
Index
Praise for the first edition
Included in Choice's Top 75 Titles and Resources for Community College Libraries
"The book really is, as Benson says, 'like having an at-your-fingertips copyright expert sitting by your side.' The volume is expertly organized into easily navigable chapters ... Librarians will find value in this work, whether they treat it as a reference or read it cover to cover."
— Library Journal
"An accessible work that should be included in every academic library’s collection. From her efficient organization to her easy-to-understand explanations, Benson does everything right ... Even those with little or no copyright knowledge will feel more confident after reading it."
— Choice
"A must-have for anyone in the library and information settings and could also be quite a useful guide for those working in primary and higher education ... Although the book can be read from beginning to end, the author arranged the contents in such a way that it can serve as a ready-reference guide to use whenever questions arise or specific situations occur."
— Journal of Electronic Resources Librarianship