Copyright Essentials for Librarians and Educators

By Kenneth D. Crews

For those professionals in the business of serving up information to the public, the evolving digital age presents new and complicated challenges. As new formats and delivery methods make duplication... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0838907970
• ISBN13: 9780838907979
• Release Date: August 2001
• Publisher: ALA Editions
• Length: 143 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 10.5" x 0.3" x 8.0"

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A complete-under-one-cover guide

In Copyright Essentials For Librarians And Educators, attorney and librarian Kenneth Crews provides an up-to-date compendium of information on the fundamentals of current copyright law as it applies to the school or public library. Crews addresses such critical issues as what makes a work copyright-protects (or not); how long copyrights last; the rights of copyright owners; how to determine what qualifies as "fair use"; and what the "need-to-knows" are as regarding copyright and the Internet. Copyright Essentials For Librarians And Educators is a complete-under-one-cover guide to all pertinent aspects of copyright for classroom and library resource materials, whether the information under question is in a print or electronic format.