Copyright guidelines for digital media

©opyright Guidelines for Digital Media

Nancy E. Adams, M.L.I.S. University Librarian

IANAL

What we’ll cover:

•Copyright basics•Fair use guidelines for educators•Claiming copyright for your work •“Copyleft”: sources of freely usable content

2 kinds of works:Copyright-protected

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Public Domain

Copyright is the right to:

•Reproduce•Distribute•Publicly display or perform•Prepare derivative works

Copyright Infringement ≠ Plagiarism

Copyrighted works must be used:

By permission Could involve paying licensing fee

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OR Within Fair Use Guidelines

Fair Use Guidelines

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Title 17, U.S. Code, Section 107: http://www.copyright.gov/title17/92chap1.html#107

Fair Use Checklist: http://copyright.iupui.edu/checklist.pdf

Fair Use Guidelines for

Educational Multimedia http://www.utsystem.edu/ogc/intellectualproperty/ccmcguid.htm

Fair Use Best Practices

• Refer to your institutional policy. • Refer to the license terms, if any. • Link out to content rather than downloading a copy.• Remember that material on the Internet may not have

been posted in accordance with copyright guidelines. • Document your fair use decisions. • Cite your sources and include copyright ownership

information if original source includes it. • Use only the portion required for educational purposes.• Exercise your fair use rights to the fullest extent.

Claiming copyright for your work

What must I do to claim copyright as a

creator?•Create an “original” work

•Fix it in a “tangible medium” of expression

For additional protection…

•Place a copyright notice on your work to protect against claims of “innocent infringement”.

© 2009, Nancy Adams

•Register your work with the Copyright Office of the Library of Congress (fee charged).

Is your work “made for hire?”

Copyleft

Creative Commons

•An organization promoting creators to share some of their benefits of copyright with others.

•http://www.creativecommons.org

Sean Aune’s “30+ Places to Find Creative Commons Media”

(Sitepoint blog)

Scenario 1:

An instructor uploads a copy of large sections of a recently-published book into the course management system to use for a required reading. Only current students of that institution can access it via a password. The same excerpt is used semester after semester.

Scenario 2:

A teacher creates a short tutorial using Camtasia, and uses an image from a licensed database that the school owns. She makes the tutorial available on the open Internet.

Scenario 3:

A media literacy professor uses a clip from the movie Aladdin to analyze media representation of the Middle East. She embeds the clip in the password-protected course management system.

Scenario 4:

A librarian digitizes the entire DVD of the movie, Traffic, and stores it on the password-protected campus media distribution system. After the class views it, the librarian leaves it on the system. Now, anyone at the University with a password can view the DVD.