Copyright and Fair Use

University Policies:

• Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine and Science Copyright Policy
• Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine and Science Research Misconduct Definitions and Evaluation (see notes on plagiarism)

Tools and Guidelines:

• Code of Best Practices in Fair Use for Academic and Research Libraries
• Fair Use Checklist. A useful checklist from Columbia University (as adapted from the Copyright Clearance Center) to help apply the Fair Use Doctrine.
• Know Your Copyrights - Using Works in your Teaching - What you Can do. Tips for Faculty and Teaching Assistants in Higher Education. By the Association of Research Libraries.
• Plagiarism: Why is it Such a Big Issue for Medical Writers? - This article defines the various types of plagiarism, including direct plagiarism, plagiarism of ideas, mosaic plagiarism, and self-plagiarism, and provides examples of how each is a problem in scientific research. The article also outlines the repercussions that plagiarism has on the medical research world outside of the classroom and offers strategies for avoiding plagiarism in your own writing.
• Summaries of Fair Use Cases from the Stanford University Libraries.
• Overview of Public Domain from the Stanford University Libraries

U.S. Copyright Laws:

• Subject Matter of Copyright: In General (17 U.S.C. § 102)
  Sections to Reference
  • Subject Matter of Copyright: Compilations and Derivative Works (17 U.S.C. § 103)
  • Subject Matter of Copyright: United States Government Works (17 U.S.C. § 105)
  • Exclusive rights in Copyrighted Works (17 U.S.C. § 106)
  • Fair Use Doctrine (17 U.S.C. § 107)
• The Digital Millennium Copyright Act of 1998
• S.505 - Sonny Bono Copyright Terms Extension Act
• Works Made for Hire

Public Domain Media

• National Library of Medicine (NLM) Flickr Commons - Historical public domain images related to medicine that have been collected by NLM's History of Medicine Division. 
• Library of Congress (LOC) Free to Use and Reuse Image Collection - The Library of Congress' digitized photo collection that has been allocated for public domain use. 
• Smithsonian Institution Flickr Commons - A small collection of the Smithsonian's digitized image collection that has been allocated for public domain use. 
• The Internet Archive - Billions of archived web pages, images, books, news papers, software, audio recordings, video and images on a variety of subjects that are freely accessible to the public. Most, but not all, of the collection in the Internet Archive is in the public domain. 
• The National Gallery of Art Public Domain Collection - A collection digitized works of art from the National Gallery of Art that have been allocated to the public domain. 
• Wikimedia Commons - Millions of freely usable images, videos, and sound files on a variety of subjects. Contains a number of collections from many institutions that have partnered with this project.