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Books, Articles & Online Legal Guides

While the Fair Users' Reference Guide and other individual references listed below should help you assess your situation and understand more about the relevant law, you may wish to contact an attorney to discuss the particulars of your situation, or read more in-depth about the issues.

Free Expression & IP Law Guides

• Will Fair Use Survive?, A Policy Report from the Free Expression Policy Project. (2005).
• Tales from the Public Domain: Bound by Law?, by Keith Aoki, James Boyle, and Jennifer Jenkins (2006) (a guide for filmmakers)
• 'Yes, You Can!' — Where You Don't Even Need 'Fair Use', by Peter Jaszi (A guide for filmmakers and photographers; PDF.)

General Guides to Copyright & Trademark Law

• U.S. Copyright Office, Frequently Asked Questions
• Chilling Effects - Frequently Asked Questions & resources on a wide variety of intellectual property and other speech-related law
• Stanford Fair Use
• University of Texas Crash Course in Copyright
• Pierce Law IP Mall
• Indiana University / Purdue University, Copyright Management Center.
• Association of Research Libraries (ARL), A History of Copyright in the United States (2002). See also Copyright and Intellectual Property Policy.
• Brad Templeton, 10 Big Myths About Copyright Explained (1994-2004). Particularly related to copyright in emails and UseNet/Internet publication.

References & Guides to Copyright Renewal & Terms

• Univ. of Pennsylvania Libraries, How to Find Out Whether a Copyright Was Renewed? (1993-2006).
• Lolly Gasaway, When Works Pass Into the Public Domain (2003).
• Peter Hirtle, Copyright Term & the Public Domain in the United States (2004).
• Mary Minow, Library Digitization Projects and the Public Domain (2004).
• Jason Schultz, Copyright Term & the Public Domain in the United States (2004).
• Bromberg & Sunstein, Flowchart for Determining When U.S. Copyrights in Fixed Works Expire (2002).
• 17 U.S.C. §§ 304-305. Duration of copyright.