Research Guides: Intellectual Property Research: Copyright

Online Resources

U.S. Copyright Office
Provides copyright search information (works registered and documents recorded by the U.S. Copyright Office since January 1, 1978).
Copyright & Fair Use
(Stanford University Libraries)
Includes primary case law, statutes, and regulations, as well as current feeds of newly filed copyright lawsuits, pending legislation, regulations, copyright office news, scholarly articles, and blog and twitter feeds from practicing attorneys and law professors.
Legal Information Institute (LII) Copyright Resources
Contains an overview of U.S. and international copyright legislation and links to IP agencies and organizations.
National Copyright Laws
Laws compiled by UNESCO.

Copyright Treatises

Copyright and Related Rights Laws and Treaties by World Intellectual Property Organization
Call Number: K1419.2 .C67x

ISBN: 10207066

Publication Date: 1987-2001
Copyright Law by Craig Joyce, Marshall Leaffer, et al.
Call Number: KF2994 .J69 2013

ISBN: 9780769859248

Publication Date: 2013
Copyright Law: A Practitioner's Guide by Bruce P. Keller, Jeffrey P. Cunard, & Robert Spoo
Publication Date: 2015
Copyright Law Reporter by Commerce Clearing House
Call Number: KF2991.5 .C64 (Available online see below)

Publication Date: 1978- (Updated periodically)

Also available online via VitalLaw (U of M Law faculty, student, and staff only).
Forms and Agreements on Intellectual Property and International Licensing by Leslie William Melville
Call Number: KD1269 .M45x 1989

ISBN: 9780876320846

Publication Date: 3rd ed., 1989 (Updated periodically)
Goldstein on Copyright by Paul Goldstein
Call Number: KF2994 .G6522 (Available online see below)

ISBN: 0735544859

Publication Date: 3rd ed., 2005 (Updated periodically)

Also available online via VitalLaw (U of M Law faculty, student, and staff only).
International Copyright by Paul Goldstein, P. B. Hugenholtz
Call Number: K1420.5 .G65 2019

ISBN: 9780190060619

Publication Date: 4th ed., 2019
International Copyright and Access to Knowledge by Sara Bannerman
Call Number: K1420.5 .B36 2016 (Available online see below)

ISBN: 9781107023062

Publication Date: 2016

Also available via Cambridge Core online access.
Law of Copyright by Howard B. Abrams
Call Number: KF2994 .A722 (Available online see below)

Publication Date: 2003 (Updated periodically)

Also available online via Westlaw (U of M Law faculty, student, and staff only).
Nimmer on Copyright: A Treatise on the Law of Literary, Musical and Artistic Property, and the Protection of Ideas by Melville B. Nimmer, David
Call Number: Reserve KF2991.5 .N5 (Available online see below)

Publication Date: 1978

Also available online via Lexis (U of M Law faculty, student, and staff only).
Patry on Copyright by William F. Patry
Call Number: Reserve KF2994 .P38x (Available online see below)

ISBN: 9780314976260

Publication Date: 2006 (Updated periodically)

Also available online via Westlaw (U of M Law faculty, student, and staff only).
Primer on International Copyright and Related Rights by Jørgen Blomqvist
Call Number: K1420.5 .B56 2014

ISBN: 9781783470952

Publication Date: 2014
Substantial Similarity in Copyright Law by Robert C. Osterberg & Eric C. Osterberg
Publication Date: 2003 (updated periodically)