Copyright Information

On This Page

• Guidelines & Policies
• Dartmouth Library Services & Copyright
• Licensing & Publishing, Tutorials, and more...
• Contact Information for Copyright Questions

The following information and links provide an overview of how the issue of copyright is handled throughout areas of the Library. The site also provides information for faculty, students, and staff at Dartmouth to begin approaching copyright issues within their own work.

Guidelines & Policies

Dartmouth College

• Copyright Policy & Guidelines
• Dartmouth Digital Library Program Collections:  Guidelines for Use, Rights & Permissions, including Take-down Policies & Procedures
• Guidelines for Online Use of Course Materials

Other Institutions & Organizations

• Code of Best Practices in Fair Use for Academic and Research Libraries
• Know Your Copy Rights – What You Can Do (Association of Research Libraries)
• Public Domain Chart (Cornell University)
• Fair Use (Stanford University)
• Center for Social Media - Fair Use Best Practices & Related Materials, including Video

Dartmouth Library Services & Copyright

Library Course Reserves

• The Library follows the principles of fair-use when placing materials on course reserve for instructors. When fair-use cannot be applied, the Library will request and secure copyright permission for the material. Library staff will consult with the instructor on alternative access to materials if the copyright permission cannot be obtained or if the permission fees are exorbitant.

Blackboard Courses

• The library does not provide any copyright services to faculty for materials placed on a course web site or on Blackboard. Instructors should consult the Guidelines for Online Use of Course Materials to become familiar with the circumstances under which they may, consistent with the Copyright Law, place course materials on course web sites.

Jones Media Center

• All media projects must be compliant with current Dartmouth policy and Federal copyright rules, laws, and regulations.

Photocopying & Scanning

• The Library posts the a copyright statement on the self-service photocopiers and scanners throughout the library to alert patrons to the legal uses of photocopied or scanned material.

Resources

Licensing & Issues in Publishing

• Scholarly Communications @ Dartmouth
• Using Full Text, Visual & Audio Resources for Education & Research @ Dartmouth
• Dartmouth Rauner Special Collections' Permission to Publish Request form.
• Securing Permissions for Publications & Presentations
• Stanford's Copyright Renewal Database
• Creative Commons provides free tools that let authors, scientists, artists, and educators easily mark their creative work with the freedoms they want it to carry.

Have Questions?

General Library copyright questions?

• Ask Us!  Email, Call or Text

Questions about retaining rights to your published materials?

• Barbara DeFelice, Director, Digital Resources & Scholarly Communication Programs
• Elizabeth Kirk, Associate Librarian for Information Resources

Questions about using copyrighted materials in other areas of your work?

• Office.of.General.Counsel@dartmouth.edu

Questions about using copyrighted materials in course reserves?

• Baker.Reserve.Desk@dartmouth.edu / 646-2569 (Reserves for the Baker-Berry, Cook Mathematics, and Sherman Art Library collections)
• Biomedical.Libraries.Reserves@dartmouth.edu / 650-1658
• Feldberg.Circulation@dartmouth.edu / 646-2191
• Jones.Media.Center@dartmouth.edu / 646-2165
• KLR@dartmouth.edu / 646-3563
• Paddock.Music.Library@dartmouth.edu / 646-3234

Tutorials & Perspectives

• Crash Course in Copyright (University of Texas - Austin)
• Copyright Tutorials (North Carolina State University)
• ©ollectanea blog – Collected perspectives on copyright