COPY RIGHTS WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW

Created by Leonel YanezEDTC 6340

CONTENT

who owns what you just createdyour rights as a copyright ownerManage your CopyrightsCreative Commons licensesopen AccessThe public domain and orphan worksUsing materials from the Internet Fair use of copyrighted materialsThe TEACH Act Getting permission

WHO OWNS WHAT YOU JUST CREATED

Two reasons you must know Who owns what?

Creating a Work working with others in a team project

when you want to know who and will have right after completing the works

Working beyond the bounds of the fair use agreement and you want to know who to ask for permission before the use

YOUR RIGHTS AS A COPYRIGHT OWNER

Copyrights gives you the (Author) all right to your work

Allows you to make copies, public distribution, display and perform your work, and in digital sound recording

Your rights will go on for a lifetime plus 70 years

The federal Law allows you to enforce your right

MANAGE YOUR COPYRIGHTS

When you commercialize your works for commercial use

For-profit publishers

Society publishers who may be non-profit

When you don't commercialize your works

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gives you the exclusive rights to make copies

to distribute your work

to display and perform your work publicly

CREATIVE COMMONS LICENSES

Creative Commons allows everyone to view your work to millions.

Eight companies are on the list Al Jazeera Flickr Google Nine Inch Nails OpenCourseWare Public Library of Science Wikipedia Whitehouse.gov

OPEN ACCESS

Everything is viewable on the web free of charge

The Concept has being around for 20 years

Every Single Scholar will have their work freely on the web

Might go through some names changes by different Publishers

Might Be owned by 2 or 3 different publishers

THE PUBLIC DOMAIN AND ORPHAN WORKS

Public Domain

Examples of Public Domain are Google, Amazon, Yahoo, and Microsoft

Any material in the Public Domain is free to the public

Orphan works

Still protected under the Copyrights

Owners are unknown but still protected under copyrights

Unable to be located for example a historical photograph, architectural drawings, and personal papers

USING MATERIALS FROM THE INTERNET

Copyright law governs the use of materials you might find on the Internet

Not everything you find over the Internet is Copyright Protected

The saving grace implies that the author assumes that material will be read, downloaded, Printed Out to some degree

You can be sued for coping and distributing others' copyrighted material without permission.

FAIR USE OF COPYRIGHTED MATERIALS

Libraries are protect form being liable for copy rights infringement

Fair use Applies to the us of online material

Fair use Sections 107 reserves limited use

Works Published on or before 12/31/1922 are in public domain

Works Published 1/1/1923 thru 12/ 31/1978 are protected for 95 years

THE TEACH ACT

 Copyrights law gives educators separate set of rights in addition to

fair use

The Teach act became into law in the late in 2002

The Act gives teacher right to perform and display works and copies

The Teach Act Section 110(2) does not cover everyone it only applies to accredited nonprofit educational institutions.

some restrictions in the digital delivery of supplemental reading, viewing, or listening materials

GETTING PERMISSION

Get permission before using any material

Contact the author or the Publisher

Copyright owner might not be the original owner

Make sure that the person giving you permission is authorized to do so

Get your permission in writing

It may be difficult to find the original owner especially when dealing with historical photographs, architectural drawings

Even though you go through all the steps you may not be able figure out whom to ask or the owner may not respond

SOURCES

Slide 1 http://www.shutterstock.com/pic-60795301/stock-photo-person-and-copyright-sign.html

Slide 4 http://blogs.psychcentral.com/humor/files/2010/11/2010-Mental-health-humor-5150-Involuntary-psychiatric-hold-cartoon-image.jpg

Slide 5 http://www.rmacart.com/index.50.jpg

Slide 6 http://infojustice.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/creative_commons2.jpg

SOURCES

Slide 9 http://it.pinellas.k12.fl.us/Teachers5/wallaceje/images/B5AE3EF9EB2C432FAEF70D2E72A9FEB6.jpg

Slide 11 http://img.docstoccdn.com/thumb/orig/55771759.png