Code of Best Practices in Fair Use [PDF] — by ARL – Association of Research Libraries. Deals with copyright and fair use questions commonly encountered in the higher education environment
Copyright and Fair Use — brief primer by Stanford U. Libraries on copyright and fair use, including court cases, legislation, and regulations
Copyright Crash Course — by the University of Texas Libraries. Covers copyright, fair use and other issues related to intellectual property
Copyright Public Records Portal — your starting point for finding copyright records held by the Copyright Office. Search our online records, learn about our searching and retrieval services, and view educational videos and materials
Creative Commons — a nonprofit organization that develops, supports, and stewards legal and technical infrastructure that maximizes digital creativity, sharing, and innovation. “Share, Remix, Reuse — Legally”
DOI (Digital Object Identifier System) — by the International DOI Foundation (IDF). Definition of DOI, documentation on standards for establishing DOIs, and DOI name lookup (find documents by DOI name/number)
Fair Use Guide — guide to fair use, including the Four Factor Test, from the UT Austin Libraries
Free DOI Lookup — by Crossref. find a document’s DOI through a bibliographic metadata search (i.e., by author, journal/article/book title, ISSN/ISBN, etc.)
Open Patent Services (OPS) — by EPO (European Patent Office). Designed for automated queries, OPS delivers production-stable and high-quality raw patent data. Requires free registration
Patentscope — by WIPO: World Intellectual Property Organization. Search millions of patent documents including millions of published international patent applications (PCT). Updated daily
TOSBack: Terms-of-Service Tracker — tracking over 50 company and website terms-of-service and customer policy changes in real-time, e.g., changes in Facebook’s, Google’s, Verizon’s, Comcast’s, & X's (Twitter’s) terms-of-service customer agreements
Trademark Search — by the USPTO. A searchable database that allows users to perform basic, Boolean and free form searches for U.S. trademarks
