Copyright                                           

This site has numerous links and gives detailed information about copyright rules and regulations.
www.copyright.gov/circs/circ1.html

The TEACH Act provides some much needed clarification and expansion of privileges for distance learning. Although many requirements must be met, the Act, when coupled with application of fair use, makes life a bit easier for distance learning providers, faculty, and students.
http://www.utsystem.edu/ogc/intellectualproperty/teachact.htm

Georgia Harper provides a readable overview and a checklist for using the TEACH Act. Balancing Copyright Concerns: The TEACH Act 2001.
http://www.educause.edu/ir/library/pdf/ERM01610.pdf

Lolly provides a concise review of Teach Act provisions. American Library Association Washington Office
http://www.ala.org/washoff/teach.html

The ALA article written by Kenneth Crews contains a good presentation of benefits and requirements of the TEACH Act as well as roles and duties of instructors, policy makers and institutional IT professionals. While TEACH does not address libraries per se there are implications for the roles of librarians  which can help to support TEACH Act benefits through policy assistance, collections, licensing and many other avenues. Libraries may also support distance learning through interpretations of fair use and appropriate use of library reserves and resources. This article contains a discussion of roles for librarians and library services.
http://www.copyright.gov/disted/