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AMA Manual of Style Committee

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Copyright Resources

Chapter:
Ethical and Legal Considerations
Author(s):

Annette Flanagin

5.6.14 Copyright Resources

Additional information about copyright law may be obtained from several sources. For a detailed legal account, consult Perle and Williams on Publishing Law38 or Nimmer on Copyright39 (although these resources are expensive and may be best consulted via a library that has these in its holdings). Other useful texts include The Chicago Manual of Style chapter “Rights and Permissions”45 and Law of the Web: A Field Guide to Internet Publishing.42 Specific information, useful guides, and forms may be obtained free of charge from the US Copyright Office14,37,40,44,46,57,58:

US Copyright Office

Library of Congress

101 Independence Ave SE

Washington, DC 20559-6000

Telephone: (202) 707-3000

www.copyright.gov

Additional useful information can also be obtained from the following:

Association of American Publishers (AAP)

50 F St NW

Washington, DC 20001-1530

Telephone: (202) 247-3375

Fax: (202) 347-3690

www.publishers.org

Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers (ALPSP)

South House

The Street

Clapham, Worthing BN13 3UU, West Sussex, United Kingdom

Telephone: 44 1903 871 686

Fax: 44 1903 871 457

www.alpsp.org/default.htm

World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO)

34, chemin des Colombettes

PO Box 18

CH-1211 Geneva 20, Switzerland

Telephone: 41 22 338 91 11

Fax: 41 22 733 54 28

www.wipo.int