Clifton Fowler Library: How: Copyright

Copyright

CMSI Fair Use
The Center for Media and Social Impact provides a great overview of fair use and how it relates to media.
Code of Best Practices in Fair Use for Academic and Research Libraries (PDF)
A clear and easy-to-use statement of fair and reasonable approaches to fair use developed by and for librarians who support academic inquiry and higher education. (Mostly for librarians)
Copyright Calculator
Helps you to determine if a work published in the United States is still under copyright or is in the public domain.
Copyright Term and the Public Domain in the United States
A comprehensive guide to determining copyright status.
Fair Use Checklist (Columbia University)
Fair Use Evaluator
This tool can help you better understand how to determine the "fairness" of a use under the U.S. Copyright Code; collect, organize & archive the information you might need to support a fair use evaluation; and provide you with a time-stamped, PDF document for your records, which could prove valuable, should you ever be asked by a copyright holder to provide your fair use evaluation and the data you used to support it.
Student Copyright Guide, Ohio Statue University Libraries

Regarding Interlibrary Loan articles being uploaded to course shells:

Please refer to your department's policies on putting material obtained through Interlibrary Loan in the course shell or other location. There may be some copyright concerns; be sure to consult any university policy guiding such decisions.