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Law Resources
Overview: This page will take you to various websites where you can find the full text of Intellectual Property laws and many related materials. You will also find links to some individual statutes that are on the CMC website. We will do our best to address current developments. Finally, you will find links to various other documents and sites related to certain provisions of Intellectual Property laws of greatest interest to higher education.
Other Intellectual Property
• Intellectual Property Primer a brief overview of copyright, patent, trade secret, and trademark law prepared by Todd G. Vare, partner in Barnes & Thornburg’s Intellectual Property Department Indianapolis, Indiana and Professor Kenneth D. Crews., Associate Dean of the Faculties for Copyright Management, IUPUI.
• Right of Publicity
• Unfair Competition
• UCITA
Selected Statutory Provisions on the CMC Website
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Section 106 (rights of the copyright owner)
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Section 106A (moral rights for some works of art)
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Section 107 (fair use)
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Section 108 (library copying)
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Section 109 (includes the "first-sale" doctrine)
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Section 110(1) (performances and displays for education)
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Section 110(2) (as revised by the TEACH Act)
- Section 112(b) (ephemeral recordings)
- Section 112(f) (as revised by the TEACH Act)
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Section 117 (uses of computer software)
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Section 504 ("statutory damages" for infringement)
More Information about U.S. Copyright Statutes
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Congress Enacts the TEACH Act (more information about the TEACH Act), October 2002)
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Congress Enacts the Digital Millennium Copyright Act ( summary of DMCA, December 1998)
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When Works Pass into the Public Domain (updated with Term Extension Act, 1998)
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President Signs New Criminal Copyright Bill: Raising the Stakes For Electronic Copyright Responsibilities
( December 1997)
More Information about U.S. Copyright Law
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Overview of Copyright Law, Legal Information Institute
- U.
S. Supreme Court Copyright Decisions, Legal Information Institute
- BitLaw
- A Resource on Technology Law
- Copyright Law in the Electronic Environment
Information about Copyright Legislation
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Trademark Law
Full text of U.S. Trademark Law
More Information about U.S. Trademark Law
Information about International Trademark Law
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Patent Law
Full Text of U.S. Patent Law and Rules
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U.S. Patent Rules, U.S. Patent and Trademark Office
More Information about U.S. Patent Law
Information about International Patent Law
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Other Intellectual Property
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What is UCITA?, American Library Association
Page last updated: January 5, 2006
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