Re: Title 17 update

From: G Norona Jr <pelayo007[_at_]sbcglobal.net>
Date: Wed, 03 Jan 2007 15:54:59 -0500

Hi Janet, I hope you will find the the following links helpful for yourself and your students.    

  If you go to Cornell University Law School at http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/html/uscode17/ you will see that each chapter of Title 17 has a section for Notes, Updates, Parallel authorities (CFR), and Your comments. Here you will find updates.    

  Then go to the Library of Congress U. S. Copyright Office at http://www.copyright.gov/laws/, you will see a section on Current Legislation Copyright-related legislation pending or recently passed in Congress.    

  Next, go to Thomas at http://thomas.loc.gov/home/c109query.html. Here your students can search the text of Title 17 by chapter for the 2005-2006 legislative term for both houses of Congress.    

  The materials are easy to read and understand. Your students do not have to be attorneys or paralegals to comprehend the core of copyright law.    

  Hope this helps.    

  Best regards,    

  Socorro Maria Pelayo
  Reference & Instruction Librarian                   

Janet Nepkie <nepkiej[_at_]oneonta.edu> wrote:   I teach an undergraduate college class entitled "Legal Issues of the Music Industry." Although I am not an attorney and most of my students do not have a career goal of entering law school, the class I teach does refer to Title 17 on a daily basis. I require all students to purchase a copy of Title 17 to facilitate classroom discussion.

The Copyright Office sells a June 2003 hard copy of Title 17.

Does anyone on the list know when the Copyright Office might make a more up-to-date paperback copy of Title 17 available?

Does anyone on the list have suggestions for other ways for the non-law student to find reliable updates to Title 17?

Does anyone on the list have suggestions for other ways to make Title 17 available in print version to a class of 80 students each semester?

Thank you,
Janet Nepkie

Dr. J. Nepkie
Professor of Music
And Music Industry
Music Department
State University College
Oneonta, NY 13820
tele: (607) 436 3425
fax: 607 436 2718
nepkiej[_at_]oneonta.edu

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