Just a quick, incomplete list to get you started on this complex topic!
Select the site address, copy and paste it into your browser
web address window, hit GO
and settle into your chair for some serious reading.
http://www.loc.gov/copyright
http://lcweb.loc.gov/copyright/circs/circ1.html#wwp
http://www.loc.gov/copyright/reports/studies/dmca/dmca_study.html
Volunteer Lawyers for the Arts:
http://www.vlany.org/
http://www.vlany.org/p_vis.html
http://www.utsystem.edu/ogc/intellectualproperty/copypol2.htm
http://www-ninch.cni.org/ISSUES/COPYRIGHT/FAIR_USE_EDUCATION/FAIRUSE_Intro/So_Important.html
http://www.eff.org/pub/Intellectual_property/fair_use_online.article
Fair Use
http://www.negativland.com/fairuse.html
http://www.benedict.com/basic/fairuse/fairtest.htm
http://www.nolo.com/encyclopedia/articles/pct/nn75.html
http://www.arl.org/info/frn/copy/confu.html
http://www.geom.umn.edu/events/courses/1996/cmwh/Copyright/
http://www.geom.umn.edu/events/courses/1996/cmwh/Copyright/vpublic.html
http://www.artswire.org/artlaw/info.html
these sites and many others address "fair use"
policies of copyright
http://fairuse.stanford.edu/
http://fairuse.stanford.edu/rice.html
http://fairuse.stanford.edu/articles/
10 Big Myths about copyright explained:
http://www.templetons.com/brad/copymyths.html
http://www.ppagkc.org/ppa/Copyright.htm
"Internet swapping spreads to hobby industry"
article by AMY GEIER, Associated Press Writer
(08-23-2000) 10:40 PDT PELION, S.C.
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/news/archive/2000/08/23/national1340EDT0591.DTL
http://websearch.about.com/internet/websearch/library/weekly/aa081799b.htm
http://www.craftopia.com/shop/projectstudio/magazine/nov00/feature.asp