External Links
This page contains descriptions and links to selected other websites containing information about copyright and intellectual property management, particularly as it relates to education and training. It also lists other Australian databases of learning materials created by AEShareNet members.
Links to other websites are inserted for the convenience of users and do not constitute endorsement of material at those sites. Please also note that advice contained on overseas sites will not reflect Australian copyright law.
- Databases of learning materials
- Australian organisations and resources on copyright and intellectual property
- Resources on intellectual property issues related to online content and multimedia
- Selected overseas sites of interest
Databases of learning materials
The AEShareNet database covers only material offered for licensing by Members (and some material under development). Members may have other learning materials available for sale or individual licensing which are not listed on theAEShareNet website.
The Description of Existing Registers produced by the Access to Flexible Learning Resources project describes databases of vocational education and learning materials as at January 2001.
Australian organisations and resources on copyright and intellectual property
Australian
Copyright Council - Online Information Centre
The Australian Copyright Council is an independent non-profit organisation.
Organisations whose members are copyright owners or performers are eligible
to apply for affiliation. The website includes a series of "Information Sheets".
http://www.copyright.org.au/
Australian
Digital Alliance Home
"The ADA is a non-profit coalition of public and private sector interests
formed to promote balanced copyright law and provide an effective voice for
a public interest perspective in the copyright debate. ADA members include
schools, universities, consumer groups, major cultural institutions, IT companies,
scientific and other research organisations, libraries and individuals."
http://www.digital.org.au/
Copyright
Agency Limited (CAL)
"Copyright Agency Limited is a not-for-profit, member-based organisation which
manages licensed copying and communication of literary, dramatic and artistic
works. Our members are Australian authors, journalists, visual artists, and
newspaper, magazine and book publishers."
http://www.copyright.com.au/
IP
Australia
IP Australia is the federal government agency that grants rights in patents,
trade marks and designs.
http://www.ipaustralia.gov.au
IP
Professor
Online intellectual property resources for the Tertiary Sector. Established
by IP Australia.
http://www.ipaustralia.gov.au/
ipprofessor/
Copyright
Kitchen
User-friendly guide to common copyright dilemmas in a novel recipe format.
Released by the 2005 Australian Flexible Learning Framework.
http://www.flexiblelearning.net.au/copyrightkitchen/main.php
Resources on intellectual property issues related to online content and multimedia
Basic
Principles For Managing Intellectual Property In The Digital Environment
A National Humanities Alliance (US) 1997 position paper on Basic principles
for managing IP in the digital environment.
http://www.nhalliance.org/ip/ip_principles.html
The
UT System Crash Course In Copyright
University of Texas System course of programmed online learning about the
issues, practice and legislative aspects of IP. Provides detailed notes on
IP issues regarding courseware, multimedia presentations and Internet downloads.
http://www.utsystem.edu/OGC/
IntellectualProperty/cprtindx.htm
Copyright
& Distance Education: A trainer's toolkit
The Commonwealth of Learning, 2000. This toolkit provides a variety of
resources designed to assist trainers in preparing and offering a workshop
that introduces participants to copyright as it relates to distance education.
It describes the basic features of copyright, identifies institutional issues
and concerns and outlines ways to deal with them.
http://www.col.org/copyrighttk.htm
Selected overseas sites of interest
Intellectual
Property Rights (IPR) Helpdesk
The IPR-Helpdesk is the European Commission's reference point for all questions
concerning IP Issues.
http://www.ipr-helpdesk.org/index.htm
WIPO
- World Intellectual Property Organization
The World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) is an international organization
dedicated to promoting the use and protection of works of the human spirit.
http://www.wipo.int/
Copyright
Clearance Centre Inc
One stop site for permission to use copyrighted material for academic course
library, includes databases of registered works. Aimed for both the US user
as well as international users of US copyright material. Royalty payments
can be made through the use of invoice system.
http://www.copyright.com/
Yale
Liblicense Licensing Digital Information
An information resource for librarians on licensing digital information.
Includes a moderated discussion list and links to various resources including
licensing condition offered by major publishing and authors' organisations.
http://www.library.yale.edu/
~llicense/index.html
Access
Copyright - The Canadian Copyright Licensing Agency
CANCOPY, the Canadian Copyright Licensing Agency, is a not-for-profit agency
established in 1988 by Canadian writers and publishers to license public access
to copyright works.
http://www.accesscopyright.ca/
Intellectual
Property - UK government
"Welcome to the Government-backed home of UK Intellectual Property on the
Internet. We hope to bring you all the answers to your questions and all the
resources you need to find your way through the IP jungle of Copyright, Designs,
Patents and Trade Marks."
http://www.intellectual-property.gov.uk/