Copyright/Plagiarism

  • Audio Visual Guidelines Information on fair use of video, music and television.
    Avoiding Plagiarism 
    		 From Northwest Missouri State University, a series of annotated links covering a variety of plagiarism topics, including recognizing and avoiding plagiarism.
    Cheating 101 From Kimbell Library at Coastal Carolina University, an exhaustive list of internet papermills for all types of assignments - from essays to book reports to master's theses and dissertation.
    Copyright and Fair Use Guidelines for Teachers Chart (in .pdf format) describes the fair-use guidelines for teachers and students when incorporating copyrighted works into educational projects.
    Copyright FAQ's Comprehensive site from Stanford University.
    Copyright Website Offers clear explanations of the various issues involved in copyright, fair use and related copyright issues for multimedia and the web.
    Creative Commons Creative Commons licenses provide a flexible range of protections and freedoms for authors, artists and educators.
    Detecting Plagiarism From Dalhousie University, provides a list of "clues" indicating possible plagiarism and links to detection software sites.
    Fair Use The Media Education Lab at Temple University has created a whole set of Curriculum Materials for teaching and understanding copyright and fair use.
    Fair Use & Copyright Stanford University's guidelines on Fair Use, coupled with specific information (see the links at the bottom of their page) for multimedia projects
    Plagiarism - what is it and how to avoid it From Indiana University, a tutorial for students to help them avoid plagarism. Includes information on recognizing acceptable and unacceptable paraphrasing.
    Recognizing Plagiarism This site, from SUNY provides links to a variety of web resources for recognizing, avoiding and detecting plagiarized work.
    US Copyright Office Links to full text of copyright law, Congressional discussions on copyright revision and numerous files on specific or technical topics related to copyright.