A Language Lab Director's Guide to

An excellent source of information is the IALLT Lab Management Manual, with a 22-page section on Copyright and the Language Center.

Links:

1. The law, and its interpretations.

Hypertext version of the U.S. Copyright Law from Cornell University Law School
Library of Congress, Copyright Info. Circular 21, Use of Copyrighted Works by Educators and Librarians (PDF format).
Stanford Copyright and Fair Use Site
Nov. 1996: Princeton University et al. vs. Michigan Document Services (re. fair use and the xeroxed coursepacket, revisiting the famous 1991 Kinko's decision which ruled that coursepackets are not fair use)--from Emory Law School
American Libraries Assn. on Distance Education and the TEACH Act.
Guidelines for off-air videotaping, posted at James Madison University; the FCC, handy for keeping abreast of current issues about using broadcast materials.

2. Policies in American universities and libraries:

"A Principled Approach to Copyright Policymaking", lecture by Susan Kornfield at IALLT 2003
CopyOwn: Higher education issues, presented by Rodney Petersen of University of Maryland. Includes links to policies online for members of the Assn. of American Universities and Assn. of Research Libraries.
Indiana University's Copyright Management Center.
Consortium of College and University Media Centers, also hosted at Indiana U., has an excellent section on Copyright and Intellectual Property Issues.

And--for those in the United Kingdom--ICT4LT Copyright Guidelines!
 

3. Practical advice for evaluating or dealing with specific situations.

UTexas Crash Course "Someone owns just about everything, Fair use lets you use their things - But not as much as you'd like."
Fair Use Chart   and  Explaining consequences of copyright infringement to teachers by Irene Starr of the University of Massachusetts.
Powerpoint presentation from IALLT 2001 by Elizabeth Hall J.D., Ph.D on Intellectual Property and course creation. Includes flow charts showing the legal status of materials created and published in various patterns at various times in the 20th century.
 

4. Some Permissions sites for major American textbook publishers:

McGraw-Hill Higher Education (the regional representative is usually also very helpful with permissions):
Information and forms for "educational electronic"

Houghton-Mifflin's Sheila Harris will respond to a faxed request as well as the following online forms:
Permission request forms includes a non-print ancillaries which is what language labs are usually interested in!
Houghton-Mifflin includes D. C. Heath publishing.

Prentice-Hall and Longman ESL, part of Pearson Education
Permissions page --not really geared to language ancillaries; a call or email might be useful.

Thomson Publishing, Heinle & Heinle
Permissions page with online form

Cheng & Tsui contacts page (contact Lai Kwan)
They charge for any duplication or digital use of the textbook/lab audio.

Harcourt  Permissions

Oxford University Press Permissions

Annenberg CPB contacts form

Judy Shoaf, jshoaf@clas.ufl.edu ©2003, 2004, 2005