Specific provisions of the U.S. Copyright Act, existing guidelines, the TEACH Act and library association response to pending Congressional proposals will be reviewed. Recent court decisions relating to infringement, fair use and reproduction of copyrighted works in libraries in both the nonprofit and for-profit sectors and in educational institutions are discussed.

Laura N. Gasaway (Lolly) has been Director of the Law Library and Professor of Law at the University of North Carolina since 1985. She teaches courses in Copyright Law and Cyberspace Law in the law school and Copyright Law for Librarians in the School of Information and Library Science. She has written widely on both copyright and in law library management issues and is a frequent speaker on these issues. She writes the Copyright Corner for SLA's Information Outlook and also has a copyright column in Against the Grain. Lolly was the first virtual scholar in residence at the Center for Intellectual Property, University of Maryland, and University College, 2002-03.