When faculty, students, and colleagues come to you with legal questions and you suddenly find yourself in the thick of a copyright conundrum, you don’t need pages of historical background information and long-winded legal explanations — you need answers, fast. Previously included in Choice's Top 75 Titles and Resources for Community College Libraries, this bestselling book gives you just that, succinctly addressing common head-scratchers and scenarios in a way that you will lead you to accurate answers quickly. Ideal for on-the-fly reference, staff training, and LIS instruction, Benson’s guide provides excerpts from the law itself alongside tools and suggested additional resources for digging deeper. Compact Copyright

• skillfully explains legal principles in plain language for more than 50 of the most common real-life scenarios library workers face;
• includes new chapters on cutting-edge developments such as AI, separability, and copyright and data;
• provides a primer on contracts and licensing basics, including Creative Commons licensing;
• explores key topics like the First Sale doctrine, Fair Use, public domain, making copies for preservation, the TEACH Act, interlibrary loan, sovereign immunity, and the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DCMA);
• offers pointers on access to copyrighted material for patrons with disabilities and other concepts related to accessibility;
• discusses select international copyright library issues; and
• includes a Fair Use checklist, copyright and film screening best practices, and additional recommended reading and materials.

Sara R. Bensonis the copyright librarian and an associate professor at the University of Illinois Library and an affiliate professor of the School of Information Science, European Union Center, and the Center for Global Studies at the University of Illinois. She also serves as the head of the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA) Delegation to the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO). Formerly a senior policy fellow for the American Library Association, she is currently a member of the Copyright Public Modernization Committee for the Library of Congress.

Preface

Acknowledgments

Chapter 1 Copyright Basics

Chapter 2 The First Sale Doctrine

Chapter 3 The Public Domain

Chapter 4 Copyright and Data

Chapter 5 Separability

Chapter 6 Making Preservation Copies

Chapter 7 Interlibrary Loan and Unsupervised Patron Copying

Chapter 8 Access to Copyrighted Material for Patrons with Disabilities

Chapter 9 Face-to-Face Teaching Versus Public Performance Rights

Chapter 10 The TEACH Act

Chapter 11 Noncommercial Performance of Nondramatic Literary or Musical Works

Chapter 12 The Music Modernization Act

Chapter 13 Fair Use

Chapter 14 Controlled Digital Lending

Chapter 15 Artificial Intelligence and Copyright

Chapter 16 The Digital Millennium Copyright Act Circumvention Provisions

Chapter 17 The Digital Millennium Copyright Act Notice and Takedown Provisions

Chapter 18 Contracts, Licensing, and Contractual Override

Chapter 19 Creative Commons Licensing

Chapter 20 Copyright Metadata and Rights Statements

Chapter 21 The Implied License Doctrine

Chapter 22 Sovereign Immunity

Chapter 23 Select International Copyright Library Issues

Appendixes

• Appendix A Fair Use Checklist
• Appendix B Copyright and Film Screening Best Practices
• Appendix C Additional Recommended Reading and Materials

Index