1. Copyright Issues Marie Dennany Lara EDTC 6340 Advanced Applications ofTechnology Fall 2015 2. Copyright Issues There are federal and international laws utilized to protect what is commonly referred to as intellectual property.The laws and legislation protects the creators interest by giving them property rights over what they create. These are commonly referred to as copyright and related rights. 3. Copyright Issues Subject matter that is protected include: literary, artistic and scientific works; performances of performing artists, phonograms, and broadcasts; inventions in all fields of human endeavor; scientific discoveries; industrial designs; trademarks, service marks, and commercial names and designations; protection against unfair competition; and all other rights resulting from intellectual activity in the industrial, scientific, literary or artistic fields. 4. Copyright Issues There are numerous creations that are available for use that are not copyright protected. These include: Works that have not been fixed in a tangible form of expression by being written, recorded or captured electronically. Ideas, facts, data, methods, concepts, and the like. Works by the U.S. government. Works within the public domain, and works in which the copyright has expired. 5. Copyright Issues There are many instances in which a copyright is in place, however the work, or a portion of the work - may be utilized in order to comment or criticize the work. This copyright principle is referred to as Fair use. The Creative Commons project utilizes Share-alike, a copyright licensing term, to describe works or licenses that require copies or adaptations of the work to be released under the same or similar license as the original. 6. Copyright Issues Copyright On Campus Video Jane the librarian educates her university colleagues about copyright law and its impact on the academic institutions use of intellectual property. This video is made available by the global rights licensing experts at Copyright Clearance Center as follows. We welcome you to watch this video here, to link to this page from your websites and intranets, or to download it for internal non- commercial use (but solely in its entirety and with attribution to us). Editing of this video is strictly prohibited, and posting of this video elsewhere on the Internet is strictly prohibited. 7. References Copyright Crash Course. (n.d.). Retrieved January 26, 2015, from http://copyright.lib.utexas.edu/ Copyright on CampusVideo. (n.d.). Retrieved January 26, 2015, from http://www.copyright.com/ Various (Ed.). (2015, January 26). World Intellectual Property Organization. Retrieved January 26, 2015, from http://www.wipo.int/