If you receive a takedown and are pretty sure that what you were doing was legal to begin with, we can go over your use before you decide to comply or issue a put-back notice. (You should also speak to legal counsel.)
Fair Use is complicated. A librarian can walk you through the Four Factors, including our Fair Use Helper. The person who is liable for infringement if Fair Use gets challenged in court is the one who should make the decision, but the library can provide information.
Public Domain is very complicated. A librarian can help you determine where the work was first published, on what date, what era of copyright law pertains. A librarian might be able to help you discover if the copyright was ever renewed (if that is relevant to the copyright law that pertains to the work) if that information is publicly available. A librarian can also help you determine if and when the author(s) died, which is sometimes relevant to whether a work has fallen into the Public Domain.
A librarian can help you go through an Author Agreement that publisher asks you to sign and determine whether the terms are acceptable. We can also support you in submitting the SPARC Author Addendum to modify the publisher's author agreement.
A librarian can help you find a journal to publish in that allows you to retain copyright, or at least the right to self-archive (put your work in a repository.)
A librarian can help you set up your ORCID.
A librarian can submit your articles to the SUNY Empire Repository for you.
A librarian can help you determine if what you want to do with a piece of Creative Commons content is permissible under that license, or whether works under two different Creative Commons licenses can be used together.
If you have any questions about whether the revisions you need to make to content in order to make them accessible are legal under copyright, and what best practices should be, a librarian can help.
A librarian can help you identify the copyright owner and their contact information.
A librarian can approach the copyright owner and negotiate for a license under the terms you specify.
The library can keep a copy of the license and track when it needs to be renewed.
You also need to keep a copy of the license. Please keep usage and usefulness of the resource in mind as the course runs, since we will check in about that before renewing the license.
