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• Developing better toolsDeveloping better tools

• Orphan works Orphan works lack sufficient lack sufficient informationinformation to identify their owners to identify their owners..

•Implied License

•Express License

Penalties: $150,000Penalties: $150,000

Fair use of copyrighted materials

3 questions to decide whether you need 3 questions to decide whether you need permission to use a copyrighted work:permission to use a copyrighted work:

•Is the work protected?Is the work protected?

•If the work is protected, has your campus If the work is protected, has your campus already licensed rights for you to use the already licensed rights for you to use the work?work?

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

• May use a wider range May use a wider range

of works in of works in distance distance learning environmentslearning environments. .

• StoringStoring,, copying copying & & digitizing materialsdigitizing materials. .

The four fair use factors:The four fair use factors:

1.1. What is the character of the use? What is the character of the use?

2.2. What is the nature of the work to be What is the nature of the work to be used? used?

3.3. How much of the work will you use? How much of the work will you use?

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

Getting permission

• Contact Contact the owner of the workthe owner of the work

http://copyright.lib.utexas.edu/http://copyright.lib.utexas.edu/permissn.htmlpermissn.html

ReferenceReference

The Copyright Crash Course The Copyright Crash Course

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Georgia K. Harper Georgia K. Harper