Copyright Crash Course

By Mario A. OrtizEDTC 6340.64

Who owns what?

Copyrights don’t manage themselves well

Using materials from the Internet

Assume Noting

Some common assumptions are wrong

Fair use of copyrighted materials

Fair Or not

Who owns what?

People need to know who owns what

When you create your work you want to know who will have the rights in the finished work?

Whom to ask for permission ?

The author is usually the owner

•identify the author or authors and contact one or more of them.

•ask whether they own the copyright or whether the work was work for hire.

•ask whether they have conveyed away any of their rights, and if so, to whom.

Copyrights don't manage themselves well

There are many aspects to effective management of your copyrights

When you commercialize your works

When you don't commercialize your works

you can reserve the right to publicly archive your work

are any costs involved?

Think about how you like to use others works; give others the rights you yourself think are reasonable.Copyright's bloated bundle gives you the exclusive rights to make copies (any and all copies), to distribute your work (to the public or to even offer it to the public), to display and perform your work publicly - for your lifetime plus 70 additional years.

Using materials from the Internet

Many people assume that everything posted on the Internet is public domain

•The law, however, has changed: neither publication nor a notice of any kind is required to protect works today.

•postings of all kinds are protected the same as published printed works.

The TEACH Act

•My institution is a nonprofit accredited educational institution or a governmental agency•It has a policy on the use of copyrighted materials•It provides accurate information to faculty, students and staff about copyright•Its systems will not interfere with technological controls within the materials I want to use•The materials I want to use are specifically for students in my class

educators still have recourse to fair use to make copies, create derivative works, display and perform works publicly and distribute them to

students.

If you are an instructor these are some of the things you want to keep in mind

For additional information refer to : http://copyright.lib.utexas.edu/teachact.html#checklist

Fair use of copyrighted materials

Why is fair use like this, and does it have to be this way?

copyright owners and users and their lawyers agree that fair use is so hard to understand that it fails to provide effective guidance for the use of others' works today.

In fact, no one strategy for acquiring legal authority to use others' works is enough today.

We would all appreciate a clear, crisp answer to that one, but far from clear and crisp, fair use is better described as a shadowy territory whose boundaries are disputed, more so now than ever, since it applies in the online environment.

Bibliographieshttp://copyright.lib.utexas.edu/copypol2.html

www.google.com

http://creativecommons.org/licenses/

https://turnitin.com/static/index.php