This is an excellent resource and will help school library media specialists explain copyright to teachers and administrators. My only quibble is that copyright issues regarding the internet continue to change rapidly with no ultimate, clearly defined guidelines, so this book (as comprehensive as it is) will never be fully up-to-date. ( )

This contains vital instruction on how to navigate the labyrinth of U.S. Copyright law but let's be real - the likelihood that I'm actually going to be able to sit down and find the time to read this is slipping down to nil so I'm just going to mark it read. However, I think I will find it greatly useful as a reference guide. ( )

There are a number of copyright books dealing wioth educational issues, but we don’t know of any more authoritive than lawyer/teacher librarian/educator Carol Simpson. Ov the years, Simpson has done the best job of understainding both the legal and the educational issues and how to interpret them in a school and school learning commons/library. The issues covered in this volume begin with the copyright law itself and then cover what’s in the public domain, what are licensing agreements, fair use, print materials, audiovisual and multimedia materials, music, distance learning, Internet issues, and computer software. She then turns to practical applications in school learning commons/libraries, getting permissions, managing copyright, copying, administrators, and contains a number of usful forms in the appendicies. Simpson has kept this guide up to date over the years, so, in our opinion, it is the best purchase among the crop of publications. Highly recommended.

Everything you want to know about copyright and then some. ( )