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Digital Library Center
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University of Florida
P.O. Box 117007
Gainesville, FL32611-7007 USA
P: 352.273.2900
F: 352.846.3702
DLC@uflib.ufl.edu
Digital Library Center & Copyright
The Digital Library Center observes United States copyright legislation (title 17, U. S. Code). Assistance interpreting copyright legislation is provided by the Copyright Office in the Library of Congress. The Center's projects target resources published outside of as well as inside the United States of America. The Center's staff observes whichever affords the greatest protections: either the laws of the United States or the laws of the country of origin.
Additionally, at least one of our projects, the Digital Library of the Caribbean, accepts resources from foreign partners. It is the responsibility of those partners to observe the copyright laws of their home country or the country of origin, whichever affords the greatest protections.
- Internet Distribution Permissions: Guidelines and permission forms for digital distribution rights (all in Word format).
- Grant of permissions:
- Grant of Permisions (English)
- Droits des Permis (French)
- Concesión de los Permisos (Spanish)
Newspaper Permission Letters for Access to Physical Copies:
In order to digitize newspapers, access to the physical copies and permissions from the copyright holders are required. These are the letters defining usage for borrowed newspapers, and they are followed by the letter templates for newspapers to grant Internet Distribution Permissions.
| Physical copy lending agreements | Grant of Internet Dist. Permissions |
| Lending Agreement (English) | Digital Distribution Permissions Consent Form (English) |
| Accord de Prêt pour la Numérisation (French) | Contrat de Distribution Numérique (French) |
| Acuerdo de Préstamo para la Digitalización (Spanish) | Digital Contrato de Distribución (Spanish) |
Procedural Support
- Cornell's two page guide to determining whether a work is in copyright.
- Stanford's Copyright Renewal Database for checking the status of works published between 1923-1978.
- Brief language aids for the identification of copyright statements in non-English languages.
- ARL Statistics for Electronic Resources
- WATCH (Writers Authors and Their Copyright Holders) Database
- General information for UF Authors on on contributing your resources, how to retain your rights...
* See the list of Countries' Copyright Length for more information.
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