Copyright and Teaching
INSTITUTE FOR E-LEARNING EXCELLENCE
TUESDAY, JUNE 4, 2013
What is copyright?
 Legal device allows a creator to control how a work is used
(intended to promote the progress of science and the useful arts)
 Body of exclusive rights
 Reproduction, distribution, public performance, public
display, derivative works
 Copyright is automatic
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Registration and renewal are not required
 Copyright does NOT extend to facts, ideas, names, titles, slogans, etc.
Copyright compliance via the law
 Fair use (Section 107 of the Copyright Act)
 The four factor test
What is my purpose?
 Criticism, commentary, repurposing, nonprofit, educational
 What is the nature of the work?
 Factual, published
 How much of the work will I use?
 Portion, appropriate for transformative purpose
 What is the effect on the market?
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Fair Use Evaluator
 Teaching performance exception (Section 110(1))
Compliance via permission
 Identify copyright owner
 Text-CCC
 Music-ASCAP and BMI
 Other-WATCH
 Ask for permission
 Be specific—intended use, exact content, length of time,
language(s), distribution, format
 Clarify if rightsholder wants particular citation and/or
compensation
 Keep records!
Permission via the Library
 Extensive resources available through our licenses
 Electronic journals
 Databases
 Media—images, videos, etc.
 Ebooks
 Electronic reserves
 Streaming video
No copyright zone
 Public domain
 Expired copyright
 US Government works
 Openly licensed materials
 Creative Commons
 OA journals
Creative Commons
 Free, easy-to-use licenses
 Applicable to print and digital content
 Standardized way to give permission for the sharing
and use of creative work
 Rapidly growing body of CC licensed work available
http://creativecommons.org
OERs
 Open Education Resources
 Open Educational Resources (OER) are teaching and
learning materials that are freely available online for
everyone to use, whether you are an instructor, student or
self-learner. Examples of OER include: full courses, course
modules, syllabi, lectures, homework assignments, quizzes,
lab and classroom activities, pedagogical materials, games,
simulations, and many more resources contained in digital
media collections from around the world.
Where to find OERs?
 OER Commons — http://www.oercommons.org/
 Merlot — http://www.merlot.org/merlot/index.htm
 Connexions — http://cnx.org/
 MIT OpenCourseWare —
http://ocw.mit.edu/index.htm
 HathiTrust — http://www.hathitrust.org/
Miscellaneous
 Tanner Symposium Series
 Wednesday, October 23
Questions?
 Contact
 Becky Thoms [email protected]
 Erin Davis [email protected]
 Copyright@USU
 http://www.usu.edu/copyrightatusu/