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Educators’ purpose: |
Educators want to provide students with materials that complement and enhance the learning experience. |
This often means using available resources as well as new ideas, new technology, and new research. |
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Students’ needs: |
Students need to be able to use materials to enhance presentations, facilitate learning, and gather information for reports. |
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Copyright awareness: |
The availability of books, journals, videotapes, CD-ROM, and digital information and the ease with which these items may be duplicated make it necessary for the faculty and students to be aware of the copyright law and what may not be done within its guidelines. |
It is the responsibility of the instructor or student to insure that the method of presenting the information incorporated in the lecture or classroom experience complies with the current copyright law. |
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Copyright protects: |
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Fine Print |
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Literary works |
Books, poems, journal articles, books. |
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Musical works |
Music and lyrics. |
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Dramatic works |
Plays, movies, pantomimes and choreographic works (ballets, dance performances, etc.) |
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Art and Architecture |
Paintings, sculpture, architectural drawings, or photographing of certain buildings. |
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Audiovisuals |
Any visual medium now available or developed in the future. Includes DVDs, CDs, podcasts, video on demand, internet pages (5:48), motion pictures, videos, etc. |
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Sound recordings |
Recorded plays or music. |
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Digital information |
Journal and newspaper articles, cartoons and photographs, novels, short stories, textbooks, web pages, and e-mail. |
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Something becomes copyrighted when it is fixed in a medium. |
Fair use Pt. 1 7:69
Fair use Pt. 2 5:29 |
Libraries, archives, and nonprofit educational institutions have special copyright exemptions. |
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Allows the copying of a limited amount of material without permission from, or payment to the copyright owner. |
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Infringement |
The copyright holder may, when infringement is proved, receive damages, injunction, and the recovery of court costs and attorney’s fees. Criminal infringement (done willfully for financial gain) is subject to a fine and/or one year imprisonment. |
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Rights protected by copyright: |
Reproduction of the work |
In any form |
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Distribution of copies |
Only the copyright holder may sell, lease, or give away copies. |
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Adaptation into a new form |
Including digitizing print, visual, or audio formats. |
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Performance of the work |
This includes musical presentations, pantomimes, movies, audiovisual formats, pictures and graphs, recitations, dances, plays, and television and radio broadcasts. |
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Public displays |
The public showing of a copyrighted work either directly or by means of a film, slide, television image, or other device or process prior to the sale of the work. |
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Derivative works |
Examples of derivative works include making a novel into a motion picture; digitizing an image or text; a teacher’s manual; recording a musical composition; an abridgement or translation; turning a story into a ballet. |
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Copyright term |
Single author |
The life of the author plus 95 years. |
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Corporate or anonymous works |
120 years from date of creation or 95 years from date of first publication, whichever comes first. |
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Multi-author works |
The life of the last living author plus 70 years, or a term of 120 years from the year of the works’ creation, whichever expires first. |
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Copyright questions? |
Contact your department chair, the library director, the CTEAL director. |
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View Online |
Copyright Introduction Pt 1 7:13
Coyright Introduction Pt 2 6:17 |
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