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Copy RightNorma Abundez

Spring 2015EDTC 6340

What is Copy Right?

Copyright is a form of protection provided by the laws of the United States to the authors of “original works of authorship,” including literary, dramatic, musical, artistic, and certain other intellectual works.

What is protected?

Intellectual Property refers to creations of the

mind, such as inventions; literary and artistic works; designs; and symbols, names and images.

Public Domain Works that are not copy

righted and can be used without permission. However, you should still credit the source.

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Fair Use Fair use allows you to use a small amount of

copyrighted materials for educational use only! First you must answer these questions?

Does it have an educational purpose? Will your use deprive the author from making money? How much of the material are you using?

Teach Act

The TEACH Act expands the scope of educators' rights to perform and display works and to make the copies integral to such performances and displays for digital distance education, making the rights closer to those we have in face-to-face teaching. For example, as indicated above, an educator may show or perform any work related to the curriculum, regardless of the medium, face-to-face in the classroom - still images, music of every kind, even movies. There are no limits and no permission required

FAQs

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References

http://www.wipo.int/about-ip/en/ http://www.cyberbee.com/cb_copyright.swf http://www.copyright.com/media/pdfs/CR-Teach-Act.pdf http://www.copyright.gov/circs/circ01.pdf http://copyright.lib.utexas.edu/teachact.html http://www.teachingcopyright.org/handout/fair-use-faq