Copyright law is complex and subject to varying interpretations, so
developing a campus-wide copyright policy can seem like a daunting
task. This guide is designed to help make the process more manageable
for deans, librarians, IT staff, faculty, and anyone else charged with
developing a copyright policy guide for their liberal arts college.

The guide was commissioned and produced by The Oberlin Group of
Libraries (www.oberlingroup.org) and the Consortium of Liberal Art
Colleges (www.liberalarts.org). Contributing editors were Laurie
Kumerow and Iris Jastram.

The intent of this guide is not to prescribe exactly what your institutional
policy should look like or include because each college’s needs are
different. Instead, this guide is intended to guide you through the
thinking and decisions required to develop a sound policy.

This easy to use framework walks students through how to analyze any United States copyright problem. This tool could be used to learn copyright law when applying it to given real or hypothetical situations.

This openly licensed whitepaper is all about how scholars own and use intellectual property. Thus, it covers copyright, patent, and trademark laws and explains how scholars on a university campus can engage with their own rights and the rights of others. It covers, among other things, university IP policies, the work made for hire doctrine, basic intellectual property, joint ownership of works, open access, licensing, fair use, and more. This is a great primer to discuss the legalities of academic scholarship on university campuses.