Education & Awareness

This page lists webpages, articles, and books on copyright which members of the Subcommittee on Copyright Issues have found particularly valuable. To suggest additional resources, please contact us.

Charts

- Peter B. Hirtle, Copyright Term and Public Domain in the United States

Selected Publications

Crews, Kenneth D. Copyright Law for Librarians and Educators: Creative Strategies and Practical Solutions, 3d ed. Chicago: American Library Association, 2012.
Ginsburg, Jane C., and Robert A. Gorman, Copyright Law. New York: Thomson Reuters/Foundation Press, 2012.
Goldstein, Paul, and P. Bernt Hugenholtz. International Copyright: Principles, Law, and Practice, 4^th ed. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019.
Lewinski, Silke von. International Copyright Law and Policy. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008.
Lipinski, Tomas A. The Complete Copyright Liability Handbook for Librarians and Educators. New York: Neal-Schuman Publishers, 2006.
Smith, Kevin L. Owning and Using Scholarship: An IP Handbook for Teachers and Researchers. Chicago: Association of College and Research Libraries, 2014.

Online Resources

Slavic & East European Copyright

Russian Federation Copyright Law

Maggs, Peter, and Alexei Zhiltsov. Civil Code of the Russian Federation as in Effect on January 1, 2020: English Translation. Independently published, 2020.
Civil Code of the Russian Federation, Fourth Part. Ed. and trans. Peter B. Maggs and Alexei N. Zhiltsov. Moscow: Wolters Kluwer, 2008. For historical use only- this law has been superseded.
Law of the Russian Federation of July 9, 1993 No. 5351-1 on Copyright and Related Rights (as amended through July 20, 2004). For historical use only- this law has been superseded.
Law of the Russian Federation of July 9, 1993 No. 5351-1 on Copyright and Related Rights (original version). For historical use only- this law has been superseded.

Scholarly works

Maggs, Peter, Olga Schwartz, William Burnham and Gennady Danilenko. Law and Legal System of the Russian Federation. 6th ed. Huntington, N.Y.: Juris Publishing, 2015.
Maggs, Peter B., and A. P. Sergeev. Intellektual'naia sobstvennost’. Moscow: Iurist, 2000.
Maggs, Peter B. "Mutual Restoration of Russian and United States Copyright." Parker School Journal of East European Law 3, no. 1 (1996): 305-24.
Maggs, Peter B. “Post-Soviet Law: the Case of Intellectual Property Law,” The Harriman Institute Forum 5, no. 3 (November 1991): 3-9.
Pilch, Janice T., “U.S. Copyright Relations with Central, East European, and Eurasian Nations in Historical Perspective.” Slavic Review 65, no. 2 (2006): 325-348.
Pilch, Janice T. “21st-Century Approaches to International Copyright.” ASEEES NewsNet 59, no. 3 (June 2019): 18-20.
Pilch, Janice T., “Copyright Guidelines for Scholars and Educators in Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies.” ASEEES NewsNet 50, no. 3 (May/June 2010): 9-11.

Resources for Investigating U.S. Copyright Status of Registered Works and Copyright Holders

There is no single searchable index for online copyright registrations and renewals in the U.S. Efforts to put these records online have led to a patchwork of online search tools:

United States Copyright Office, Public Catalog, Copyright Catalog (1978 to present), registrations, renewals, and other records on works registered and documents recorded by the U.S. Copyright Office since January 1, 1978.
United States Copyright Office, Circular 22, How to Investigate the Copyright Status of a Work.
Internet Archive, Catalog of Copyright Entries and Catalogue of Title Entries, copyright registration records from the United States Copyright Office for the period July 1891- December 1977.
Stanford University, Copyright Renewal Database, searchable index of the copyright renewal records received by the U.S. Copyright Office between 1950 and 1992 for books published in the U.S. between 1923 and 1963.
- University of Pennsylvania, The Online Books Page, helpful, easily searchable index of copyright registration and renewal records by year and format, linked to records in U.S. Copyright Office, Internet Archive, Google Books, HathiTrust, and GWU Guide to Pre-1870 Copyright Records.
Google Books, Scans of the Catalog of Copyright Entries, registration and renewal registrations for books, pamphlets, serials, and contributions to periodicals, 1922-1977.

Sources for information on copyright holders and firms out of business, primarily useful for searching U.S. and U.K. copyright holders:

The University of Reading Library and the Harry Ransom Center at the University of Texas at Austin, WATCH (Writers Artists and Their Copyright Holders), database of copyright contacts for writers, artists, and prominent people in other creative fields.
The University of Reading Library and the Harry Ransom Center at the University of Texas at Austin offer this database of publishing, literary or other firms out of business.

Organizations