Documents

Agreements

• Memorandum of Understanding - Assuring rights of use of instructional materials for distance education. (pdf version)
  • Summary and Overview of the Memorandum of Understanding
• Copyright and Publishing Agreement with the Indiana Law Review - Agreement transferring copyrights in articles to be published by the Indiana Law Review to the Trustees of IU. (pdf version)
• Permission to Use Student Work - Release to be signed by the student granting IU permission to use their work. (pdf version)
• Appearance Release - Release allowing the videotaping of the undersigned and assigning copyrights to the production to IU. (pdf version)
• Research Assistant Copyright -Agreement to be signed by the student stating that all works created within the scope of employment shall be considered "works made for hire." (pdf version)
  

Checklists

• Fair Use Checklist - See if you comply with the law of fair use using this popular checklist created by the CMC. (pdf version)
• Teach ACT Checklist - New from the CMC! - See if you comply with the new law enacted by Congress in 2002. (pdf version)

Other Documents

• Sample Permission Letters
• IUPUI Online Intake Form - To assist in copyright analysis request
• Intelectual 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.
• CETUS Discussion Series: This series of four booklet was created in 1995 to addresses; the benefits higher education can derive from a better understanding of the fair-use doctrine, the copyright issues that libraries are likely to face in the evovling information age, and ownership of intellectual property
  

Copyright © 2002-2006 Indiana University