Ceramics: Copyright Law in the Visual Arts

Circular 92. Copyright.gov. Copyright Law of the United States of America and Related Laws Contained in Title 17 of the United States Code

U.S. Copyright Office, Library of Congress. (2015).Copyright Law of the United States, title 17, U. S. Code.

Center for Digital Research and Scholarship, Columbia University Libraries. (2015). Asking For Permission

Quote from Creative Commons' About page:

Creative Commons is a nonprofit organization that enables the sharing and use of creativity and knowledge through free legal tools.

Our free, easy-to-use copyright licenses provide a simple, standardized way to give the public permission to share and use your creative work — on conditions of your choice. CC licenses let you easily change your copyright terms from the default of “all rights reserved” to “some rights reserved.”

Creative Commons licenses are not an alternative to copyright. They work alongside copyright and enable you to modify your copyright terms to best suit your needs.

Cornell University Copyright Information Center. (2015). Fair Use Checklist.

The OWL. (2014). Strategies for Fair Use.

An interactive tool to help you determine the "fairness" of a use under the U.S. Copyright Code; organize your info; create a PDF file in case you need to defend your use of materials.

An interactive tool for "information for educators & others to better understand the duration of copyright for unpublished works, and for works first published in the U.S. or simultaneously in the U.S. and abroad."

Stanford University Libraries, Copyright & Fair Use. (2015). Measuring Fair Use: The Four Factors:

1. the purpose and character of your use
2. the nature of the copyrighted work
3. the amount and substantiality of the portion taken, and
4. the effect of the use upon the potential market.

General info on copyright, fair use.

"Subject to some general limitations ...the following types of uses are usually deemed fair uses:

Criticism and comment -- for example, quoting or excerpting a work in a review or criticism for purposes of illustration or comment.
News reporting -- for example, summarizing an address or article, with brief quotations, in a news report.
Research and scholarship -- for example, quoting a short passage in a scholarly, scientific, or technical work for illustration or clarification of the author's observations.
Nonprofit educational uses -- for example, photocopying of limited portions of written works by teachers for classroom use.
Parody -- that is, a work that ridicules another, usually well-known, work by imitating it in a comic way,"

-NOLO, 2015

U.S. Copyright Office

Cornell University Copyright Information Center. (2015). Copyright Term and the Public Domain in the United States.

College Art Association. (February, 2015). Code of Best Practices in Fair Use for the Visual Arts.

Note: If you make art, see page 11.

Code of Best Practices is a PDF file on the right.

UTEP. (2015). LibGuide: Copyright and Intellectual Property LibGuide.

A brief overview, with example court cases.

The Media Institute is a nonprofit research foundation specializing in communications policy issues. The Institute exists to foster three goals: freedom of speech, a competitive media and communications industry, and excellence in journalism.

The College Art Association (CAA), as the preeminent international leadership organization in the visual arts, promotes these arts and their understanding through advocacy, intellectual engagement, and a commitment to the diversity of practices and practitioners.

Founded in 1914 as the American Institute of Graphic Arts, AIGA remains the oldest and largest professional membership organization for design and is now known simply as “AIGA, the professional association for design.”

The Graphic Artists Guild primary purpose is to help our members build successful careers by equipping them with the skills and support needed to compete more effectively in an ever-changing field. Guild members are creative professionals and those studying to become creative professionals. We serve graphic and interactive designers, illustrators, animators, web programmers and developers.