THE
CAMPUS GUIDE TO COPYRIGHT COMPLIANCE for Academic Institutions from the Copyright Clearance Center. This is the definitive source
of information about the complexities of copyrights in an electronic world. At
the Copyright Clearance Center, Inc. you
can get permission to reproduce copyrighted content such as articles and book
chapters in your journals, photocopies, coursepacks, library reserves, Web sites,
e-mail.
Guide
to Copyright and Fair Use. The Legal Department of the Board
of Regents of the State of Georgia has published a guidebook for understanding
copyright and fair use. The guide provides examples of Fair Use and the legal
background of copyright law. Permission to copy these guidelines for non-commercial
educational use is freely granted.
Copyright
Crash Course from the University of Texas Office of Genereal Counsel.
This is a recopmmeded start if you are interested in producing media
Classroom
Copyright Chart: Copyright and Fair Use Guidelines for Teachers, compiled
by the California Student Media and Multimedia Festival. These guidelines were
"not intended to limit the types of copying permitted under the standards of fair
use under judicial decision and which are stated in Section 107 of the Copyright
Revision Bill. There may be instances in which copying which does not fall within
the guidelines stated [above] may nonetheless be permitted under the criterion
of fair use."
TEACH
Act of 2001
(Technology, Education, Copyright and Harmonization
Act of 2001)
The TEACH Act says it is not copyright infringement for teachers and students
at an accredited, nonprofit educational institution to transmit performances and
displays of copyrighted works as part of a course if certain conditions are met.
If these conditions are not or cannot be met, use of the material will have to
qualify as a fair use or permission from the copyright holder(s) must be obtained.
(NC State University, http://www.lib.ncsu.edu/scc/legislative/teachkit/overview.html)
A
comprehensive TEACH
Toolkit, an online resource for for understanding copyright and
idistance education, has been compiled by North Carolina State University and
explains and unravels much of the TEACH for instructors.
The TEACH Act,
sponsored by Senators Leahy and Hatch, is intended to ease copyright restrictions
on Internet content for educational purposes. Senator Leahy said S.487 "will help
clarify the law and allow educators to use the same rich material in distance
learning over the Internet that they are able to use in face-to-face classroom
instruction." There was some resistance to the bill from copyright holders who
claimed the bill was redundant with current copyright laws that support "legitimate
distance-learning activities." But Leahy said the 1999 Senate Internet-based education
commission report demonstrated there is a need for legislation that is more appropriate
to the virtual classroom with multimedia and digital transmissions. Senator Hatch
added, "Moreover, of utmost significance to the copyright owners, the legislation
adds new safeguards to counteract the risks posed by digital transmissions in
an educational setting. (The) bill imposes obligations to implement technological
protection measures as well as certain limitations relating to accessibility and
duration of transient copies."
[SOURCE:
Newsbytes, AUTHOR: Robert MacMillan]
Nothing in the TEACH
Act is intended to limit or otherwise to alter the scope of the fair
use doctrine.
Multimedia
Fair Use Guidelines
Click
here to see the guidelines.
Faculty
and students producing multimedia were severely constrained by the copyright laws
that were written before it was so easy to perfectly reproduce images, sounds
and movies. Now there are guidelines for educators that describe what can legally
be used, without seeking permission, in educational productions.
