COPYRIGHT AND ONLINE CONTENT : COPYRIGHT AND ONLINE CONTENT 233 Years
Using online materials : Using online materials Everything online is copyrighted even if it’s not explicitly stated, meaning only the owner of the copyright may use it EXCEPT
Fair Use: a copyright principle which allows use of copyrighted materials for “criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, research, parody and satire.
The material you want to use must meet the four factors of Fair Use.
Four Factors of Fair Use : Four Factors of Fair Use Purpose and character of the use
Courts favor educational, nonprofit, or personal purposes
Nature of the copyrighted work
Courts favor nonfiction published works
Portion to be borrowed – quantity and quality
Courts favor the smallest amount possible to get the point across and not the heart of the work
Affect of the use upon the potential market
Will your use mean the copyright owner will make less $$$?
**For use to be legal, the original material must be legal**
Can you argue your use in court based on these?
A Chart for Guidance : A Chart for Guidance http://www.halldavidson.net/copyright_chart.pdf
TEACH Act : TEACH Act Alternately, your organization may comply instead with the TEACH Act
Copyright exclusively for distance learning organizations
Must meet a long list of criteria in order to be eligible, which can be difficult
For more info: http://copyright.lib.utexas.edu/teachact.html & http://www.ala.org/ala/issuesadvocacy/copyright/teachact/index.cfm
A Couple of Other Ways to Stay Legal : A Couple of Other Ways to Stay Legal Licensed content
Your organization might purchase content for your use
Creative Commons (http://creativecommons.org/)
Copyright holders can define what rights users have
Check out the search by copyright on flickr.com (http://www.flickr.com/search/advanced/?)
Public Domain
Items of a certain age (created before 1923)
Most federal documents
Good literature resources at readbookonline.net and gutenberg.org
A Couple of Other Ways to Stay Legal : A Couple of Other Ways to Stay Legal Link to the content you want your students to use (instead of cutting and pasting)
Considered a “public domain” concept
The content must be a legal copy
Permission
It’s simple to request permission, and often times copyright holders say yes and are flattered that you asked. http://landmark-project.com/permission1.php