On May 28th, Office of General Counsel attorneys Craig Blackwell and Lauryn Guttenplan spoke to a full house of SIL staff on the topic of copyright. They offered a general overview of copyright law in the U.S. as well as answered numerous questions from library staff. It's clear that copyright is a complicated issue and the answers are not always black and white!

Copyright Term and the Public Domain in the U.S. (a very handy chart!):
http://www.copyright.cornell.edu/public_domain/
The Section 108 Study Group:
http://www.section108.gov/
Lesley Harris' Copyright Questions and Answers blog:
http://www.copyrightanswers.blogspot.com/
The Copyright Advisory Network blog:
http://librarycopyright.net/wordpress/
The University of Maryland University College's Center for Intellectual Property (offers many good resources, including "Ask the IP Specialist"):
http://www.umuc.edu/distance/odell/cip/cip.shtml#
-Erin Clements Rushing
