Copyright Information

The Birmingham Civil Rights Institute holds property rights to all its collections but holds copyright to a select few, with some being in the public domain.  The collections are made available for the specific educational purposes of research, personal study, and teaching.  It is the responsibility of the user to identify and secure permission from the copyright holder to make reproductions of copyrighted materials.  Requestors of materials agree to hold the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute harmless from any and all liability and agree to indemnify it, its officers, employees, and agents from any and all damages, costs, and other expenses arising out of the requestor's use of the above described materials, including expenses resulting from suits for infringement of copyright and any judgments against the Institute.  The Birmingham Civil Rights Institute reserves the right to refuse to provide a reproduction for a user if, in its judgment, fulfillment of the request would involve violation of copyright law.
 
United States Copyright Law
The copyright law of the United States (Title 17. U.S.C.) governs the making of photocopies or other reproductions of copyrighted material. As of April 1999, the law was amended from its 1976 status with the inclusion of the Digital Millennium Copyright Law and the Sonny Bono Term Extension Act.
Under certain conditions specified in the law, libraries and archives are authorized to furnish a photocopy or other reproduction. One of these specified conditions is that the reproduction is not to be used for "any purpose other than private study, scholarship, or research." If a user makes a request for, or later uses a reproduction for purposes in excess of Fair Use, that user may be liable for copyright infringement.

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