CREATING COPYRIGHT COURTESY

IN THE EDUCATIONAL SETTING

Presented by Tamela McGregor

Houston Baptist University

What is copyright?

Protection of a someone’s work or Intellectual Property Literary, musical, dramatic pantomimes choreographic, pictorial, graphic, and

sculptural motion pictures, audiovisual, sound

recordings, architectural works

Must be in a “fixed” format to be protected Example

Written down, recorded

What is considered copyrighted?

Registered and Unregistered works Registered

© Copyright © (1st date of creation) (name of owner) Abbreviation: Copr

Unregistered work protected after April 1, 1989

Copyright does NOT protect Ideas discoveries Does NOT apply to facts

Who is responsible for copyright?

The Government Documented into laws through Constitution

Began with Copyright Act of 1976 Owners/authors of work have right to

give permission to others to use their work

Laws created to protect rights of owners/authors

What are some laws that affect educators?

Unregistered works protected on or after April 1, 1989

Unpublished and or unregistered works created before January 1, 1978

protected by government for limited amount of time Automatic renewal for works registered

between January 1, 1964, and December 31, 1977.

fair use Limits use of copyrighted works

What is considered fair use?

Original owner/author not affected financially by use You can copy. . .

Poems: less than 250 words excerpt from longer poems that do not surpass 250 words

Article, story or essay: less than 2,500 words, or excerpt from literary piece

Cannot use more than 1,000 words or 10% of work (whichever is less)

Illustrations: Only 1 per book or periodical (magazine or newspaper)

Examples chart, graph, diagram, drawing, cartoon or picture

Using a digital image for academic study

Be careful with fair use

Do NOT copy more than one. . . short poem, article, story, essay 1 work from same author more than three works from a collection or

volume Teachers especially use caution

Allowed class set of periodical, Magazine articles Throw away day after used

Coursepacks Need permission before inclusion Limit access to students in class

How can copyrighted laws be broken?

Copyright infringement Lack of knowledge Printing/copying excess amounts of

intellectual property than allowed under fair use law Only 1 copy of an article per student if its for a

class Printing/copying material

affects author/owner financially Example

Sampling a song without permission from the artist

What happens if I violate the fair use law?

Financial loss Sued Expenses for defense attorneys Time

Court Time away from job, work Reputation

Solution

Educate yourself! See Resources for Students and Educators

pages Permission

Contact owner/author of work before use Buy it

Digital images should be bought if possible

Resources for Students

http://www.loc.gov/teachers/copyrightmystery/#/copyright/

http://www.loc.gov/teachers/copyrightmystery/#/reading/

Resources for Educators

Academic Coursepacks http://fairuse.stanford.edu/Copyright_and_Fair_Use_Overview/chapter7/7-a.html

References

US Copyright Office http://www.copyright.gov/circs/circ1.pdf

Copyright Basics - The Video from Copyright Clearance Center http://216.183.190.29/

10 Big Myths About Copyright University of Texas Copyright Site

http://www.utsystem.edu/OGC/IntellectualProperty/copypol.htm

Fair Use and the Electronic Age Stanford University: Copyright and Fair Use

http://fairuse.stanford.edu/library_resources/ http://www.copyright.gov/title17/circ92.pdf