New York Heritage at CDLC: Copyright and Rights Statements

Easy-to-use tool that helps users determine the copyright status of items.

Chart created by the Cornell Copyright Information Center to help determine copyright status of items. d to as the "Peter Hirtle Copyright Chart."

OCEAN explains and expands on the work of copyright experts working with or within libraries, archives, and museums to deliver quality education specifically designed to cover copyright issues related to their missions. The site has information about upcoming free events and recordings of previous webinars.

Article from the Spring/Summer 2014 issue of The American Archivist. Author Jean Dryden discusses a study of the impact of copyright on selection for digitization and identifies tools to support a risk-assessment approach to management.

This group created the Guide to Implementing Rights Statements. Their site includes more on fair use, vendor guidelines, dealing with orphan works, links to copyright resources and more.

Statement aimed at Libraries, Archives, and other Memory Institutions. Includes information on challenges and best practices in dealing with orphan works.

Although aimed at Columbia faculty and students, this site contains useful information on copyright basics, fair and permitted uses, steps for asking permission to use copyrighted information, orphan works and more in straightforward language.

The Library Copyright Alliance (LCA) consists of three major library associations — the American Library Association, the Association of Research Libraries, and the Association of College and Research Libraries. The purpose of the LCA is to work toward a unified voice and common strategy for the library community in responding to and developing proposals to amend national and international copyright law and policy for the digital environment. The LCA’s mission is to foster global access to and fair use of information for creativity, research, and education.

Guide created by the Society of American Archivists' Intellectual Property Working Group. Considered to be an authoritative guide for applying rights statements in the United States.

Resources to support the implementation of rightsstatements.org and Creative Comments statements at libraries, archives, museums and cultural institutions in the United States. The portal is a project of the Digital Public Library of America (DPLA), but the resources are useful for all digitization projects, whether or not they are being submitted to DPLA.