COPYRIGHT

Richard Wilson

02/04/2012

Revision 2

What is copyright?

A legal statement enforced by the courts to protect intellectual property.

Comprehensively assigned by default

Copyright and Distribution

Distribution of copyright works without permission is illegal

Default copyright laws lock the author’s work

Archive your work for open access

License work using Creative Commons 3.0

Handling Orphan Works

The author cannot be found

Legislation protects orphan works

Overprotection is culturally limiting Google, UT others developing tools to

help free what is in public domain

Using other people’s materials

The Internet is not public domain

Internet publishing implies a limited license not a commercial license

For caution, get permission before use

Fair Use: overview

Fair use defines exceptions to copyright

Allows limited use of copyright material

Decided by courts and uses 4 factors

character of use nature of work to be used how much of work will be used effect on original market

Fair use: Rough guidelines only

Fair use Copyright not fair use Fact

Published Nonprofit Educational Personal Small amount used Out of print Owner unidentifiable

Creative Unpublished Commercial use Used in full or large part Competes with original Avoids royalty payment

Creative Commons 3.0

Free online tools for self managing copyright licensing

Give your work the freedoms you want

Can set open access

Retain acknowledgement of ownership

TEACH Act

2002 law expands educator’s rights

Educator can show anything related to

curriculum Materials must be pared down and

adhere to section 110(2) for distance learning

Section 110(2) Distance Learning

Legal to transmit non-drama

Legal to transmit limited portions off all works

Legal to transmit still images

Non-profit educational institutions

Section 110(2) Conditions

Part of institutional activity

Performed by instructor

Related to course content

Attribute notice of copyright

Limited to duration of class only

Copies retained by institution

References

Creative Commons, (2012). Who uses CC ?. Retrieved from http://creativecommons.org/who-uses-cc

University of Texas Libraries, (2007). Copyright Crash Course. Retrieved from http://copyright.lib.utexas.edu/