Copyright Crash Course April Canales- Perez EDTC 6340.66
Copyright Crash Course
April Canales-Perez
EDTC 6340.66
Copyright
According to the U.S. copyright office definition, copyright is a form of protection provided by the laws of the United States for “original works of authorship”
Public domain
Works in public domain are no longer under copyright protection
These works can be used, shared, and printed without the permission of the originator
Copyright act protects works whose owner can’t be identified or located,and date created is unknown
Libraries are displaying orphan works with special notice they can not be used for any purpose other than to read
Orphan works
World wide webCopy right law protects all works on the internet even if it does not have a publication or any other notice
LicensesImplied license
O Vital to the operation of the InternetO Boundaries are vague
Express licenseO Explains what rights the author wants
readers, viewers, or listeners to haveO Creative Commons
Fair useIs very vague when it comes to explaining how much of the work can be used without asking permission
Just because you acknowledge the source does not mean you have their permission to use it
Fair use factors
OWhat is the character of the use?O How will it be used? O How much will be used?O What effect will it have?
Getting permissionO Depending on type of work follow correct
stepsO Contact author or publisherO Research to find copyright ownersO Get written permission
ReferencesResourceO Harper, G. K., (2007). Copyright crash course.
Building on others’ creative expression.
Retrieved from http://copyright.lib.utexas.edu/
ImagesO (2009). A smarter dummy. U.Va. engineers building
“virtual” crash test dummy. Retrieved from
http://uvamagazine.org/research_and_discovery/
article/a_smarter_dummy/O (2008). Domaining. Domain names. Retrieved from
http://premiumdomain.ws/
References continuedO Dery, M. (2008). Orphan works. Retrieved from http://www.printmag.com/Article.aspx? ArticleSlug=Orphan_Works O (2009). Getting started with websites: Introduction. Retrieved from http://divyun.com/page/2/O (2010). Creative commons and intellectual property. Retrieved from http://chinesedrum.wordpress.com/ O PungoM. (2007). Fuzzy copyright. Retrieved from http://www.flickr.com/photos/pugno_muliebriter/ 1384247192/in/photostream/O (2010). SharePoint Item Level Permissions 2010 & 2007. Retrieved from http://dbweb.sbisite.com/blog/Lists/Posts/ Post.aspx?ID=80