MTT Sept 2011

Copyrights Janeth Cain

Public domain & orphan works

Overprotection

• Quality suffers• Limits creativity

Orphan works

•Materials from the internet are copyright regulated

•Everything in the internet is public domain.

•If it is not published, it is not copyrighted.

Implied license

• Internet posts• Other works

Express license

Liability

•RIAA lawsuits for peer-to-peer file sharing

• Individual liability

Fair use• Author’s right• Reasonable • Compensation

Fair use

•Creative commons•Collective license

Four factor Fair use Analysis

Fair useUse it?

Ask permission?

Creative commons

http://creativecommons.org/

Academic use

• Implied license• Academic use• Online works

Rules of thumb

•No harming markets•Be conservative•Use small parts •Limit copies

TEACH Act

TEACH Act Exclusion

Is permission needed?

Getting Permission

Scholarly Communication

References

Harper, Georgia K. The Copyright Crash Course (2007)General format. Retrieved from http://copyright.lib.utexas.edu/