COPYRIGHT CRASH

COURSE

Copyright Questions

• What is the copyright’s role in the flow of teaching and research?

• Who owns what you just created?• What rights do I have as a copyright

owner?• How do I manage my Copyrights?• What are creative common licenses?

Building On Other’s Creations

• The Public Domain and Orphan Works• Content On The Web• Fair Use • TEACH Act• Getting Permission

Public Domain

• Mass Digitization

- develop better tools

- develop best practices

Content On The Web• Copyright Law - governs the use of materials - inadequate to deal with realities of electronic communication

• Copyright Protection - people assume that everything is posted on internet - Implied and express licenses - Liability for posting infringing works

Fair UseWhat is fair use?

Basics of individual liability for infringement - Penalties - Good Faith Fair Use Defense (special provision of the law)

3 Fair Use Questions • Is the work protected?

• Has your campus already licensed rights for you to use the work?

• Is the work available freely on the open Web, and therefore covered by an implied license?

Quick Guides to Fair Use• Coursepacks, reserves, course management systems

• Images Archives

• Creative Users

• Research Copies

4 Fair Use Factors• What is the character use?

• What is the nature of the work to be use?

• How much of the work will you use?

• What effect would this have on the market for the original or for permissions if the use were widespread?

TEACH ACT• Expands codes of educators rights -transmitting non-dramatic or musical work - transmitting reasonable and limited portions of performances - transmitting displays of any work

• Authorizes to digitize works for use in digital education

• Use Teach Act Checklist

Getting Permission• Processes and Who Pays?

• Getting permission is a difficult task.

Keeping In Mind

You have rights as a copyright owner………