This Collaborative Web is the archive of our collaboration for the Copyright Considerations Project during Spring 2002

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Copyright Project

Please see my page for info on obtaining copyrights and infringement penalties. Barb

Organization/Individual Issues

Fair use Scott

• As defined by US Code, Title 17, Section 107

• ...the fair use of a copyrighted work, including such use by reproduction in copies or phonorecords or by any other means specified by that section, for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching (including multiple copies for classroom use), scholarship, or research, is not an infringement of copyright.

• Fair use test: With a particular use in mind, read each question and answer each question about your use. Make a judgment about the final balance: overall does the balance tip in favor of fair use or in favor of getting permission?

• What is the character of the use?
• What is the nature of the work to be used?
• How much of the work will you use?
• What effect would this use have on the market for the original or for permissions if the use were widespread?

Obtaining Permissions: The following organizations maintain comprehensive lists of owners of copyrighted material.

• United States Copyright Office
• Copyright Clearance Center
• Academic Image Cooperative
• Publication Rights Clearinghouse
• The American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers (ASCAP)
• Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA)
• Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center

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Individual Issues Barb

Who Owns Online Courses and Course Materials? Interesting article.

Selling Wine without Bottles This is a long (sometimes rambling) article that has some interesting thoughts about the fallacy that we will be able to control individual property rights with something as wispy as a copyright notice in today's world (and the future). The author points out that "most human exchange will be virtual rather than physical" and "future business will be conducted in a world made more of verbs than nouns."

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References

Copyright Law in the Electronic Environment

Title 17, Section 107, US Code

Getting Permission

Why Register?

What Can You Register?

Fair Use in the Electronic Age

When Works Pass into the Public Domain

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General Issues (Derrel)

Assuring that work from other sources has proper permissions
Permitting individuals to have appropriate control of their own work.
Differentiate between "work for hire" and work not for hire.
Why do patents only go for 17 years but Disney gets to keep Mickey Mouse for life of the creator plus 75 years?
Who has rights to works created by several people?
Who has rights to student work?
List the issues of work for class in a non-public environment, versus semi-public (e.g., posted in hallway), versus public (e.g. posted on Web)
You can only sue for damages if you have filed for copyright--everything else just generates a cease-and-desist. Can't even collect lawyers fees.
You have to read the fine print--don't sign your rights away.

Software licensing issues: As a organization, license management is critical to be both legal and ethical.

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