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The Empire State College Online Library is launching the new Copyright Information Web Site, which includes information on the public domain, open content and the Creative Commons, the fair use exemption, the educational use exemption, DMCA takedown procedures, getting permission, and more. This presentation provides an introduction to that resource, focusing on items of particular interest to faculty designing courses and mentoring in the online learning environment.
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Copyright in the online learning environment
Raise your hand if you agree:1. When you write a blog post or email,
it’s copyrighted.2. The Hobbit (the novel) is in the public
domain. 3. If you use 10% or less of a work, it’s
Fair Use. 4. It’s legal to embed clips of music, video
or text in an online classroom for educational purposes
Copyright is complicated ambiguous always changing
through new statutes and court cases
You aren’t alone Copyright Information Web Site
http://www.esc.edu/copyright on the library web site, under the Services
tab
Copyright the author’s exclusive rights to their
work make copies distribute copies (for $ or not) make and distribute derivative works license others to do these things
Limited in duration by exemptions made for certain uses
Copyright covers the original expression of ideas
not facts, data or the ideas themselves as soon as they are fixed in a tangible
medium of expression written, recorded, saved, posted…
Public domain Virtually everything is copyrighted
unless its copyright has expired or it was a publication of the U.S. federal
government Public domain means absolutely free
Free as in gratis (no cost) Free as in libre (no restrictions on use)
Is it in the public domain? wildly complicated! use the Public Domain Helper
on the Copyright Information Web Site
Creative Commons pre-packaged, one size fits all licenses
that work within copyright law and hold up in court
Why? severe restrictions on using copyrighted
content online even inside Angel/Moodle!
public domain and Creative Commons works are not subject to those restrictions!
Creative Commons Licenses Attribution Attribution, Non-Commercial Attribution, No-Derivs Attribution, ShareAlike Attribution, Non-Commercial, No-Derivs Attribution, Non-Commercial, ShareAlike
Use the Creative Commons web site to put a CC license on your own work to find CC licensed works to use
Show of hands Is anyone here comfortable sharing
what they know or have heard about how Fair Use works?
Balance of four factors each of the four factors needs to be
addressed they don’t all have to be favorable,
although it’s ideal
Purpose and character of the use is it a use that copyright law recognizes
as socially beneficial? education, research, scholarship criticism, commentary, parody news reporting NOT art, literature, creativity
is it transformative? not just copying or repurposing, but
creating something new?
Nature and character of the work being used Is it published or unpublished? Is it non-fiction or literary, artistic,
dramatic, creative?
Amount and substantiality of the part being used quantitative
no safe maximum proportional to the size of the work
qualitative how important is it to the work as a whole
Market effect could it substitute for the original? could it negatively impact the market
for derivative works? even if the author hasn’t created those
derivative works yet!
Market effect online making and sharing perfect copies is
cheap effortless instantaneous
no practical barriers to flooding the market
artificial technical barriers
Can you use Fair Use online? YES Be extra careful!
educational or critical purpose ideally a transformative work use as little of the work as you can limit access behind a password (keep it in
the Angel/Moodle course) put media on a streaming server to limit
copying
Is it Fair Use? you don’t have to remember it all! Fair Use Helper
on the Copyright Information Web Site
Label it Fair Use From chapter 11 of Silent Spring by Rachel
Carson, 1962. This is a fair use under Title 17 section 107 of the U.S. Code.
Carson, R. (1962) Silent spring. New York, NY: Houghton-Mifflin. This is a fair use under Title 17 section 107 of the U.S. Code.
This excerpt from Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring (1962) used under Fair Use (Title 17 section 107 of the U.S. Code.)
Getting permission not public domain? not open content? not fair use? you need to get permission
and probably pay royalties
Royalties? How much? figure on 30 cents per student, per page music, video, images: unpredictable every center and department has its
own way of handling the budget for copyright permissions
have an idea of how much you’re willing to spend before you negotiate the license
Label it used with permission From chapter 11 of Silent Spring by Rachel
Carson, 1962. Used with permission from the copyright owner.
Carson, R. (1962) Silent spring. New York, NY: Houghton-Mifflin. Used with permission from the copyright owner.
This excerpt from Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring (1962) used with permission from the copyright owner.
How to get permission Copyright Permission Guide at the
Copyright Information Web Site
Show of hands if you have heard that you can be
personally sued for copyright infringement in courses that you create?
Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) limits college’s liability for faculty and
staff copyright infringement but doesn’t protect the individual faculty or
staff member requires college to carry out DMCA
takedown procedures requires college to terminate computer
accounts of “repeat offenders”
The good news! before they can sue you, they have to
issue a takedown notice, and if you comply, you’re safe.
How a takedown works1. copyright owner or their representative
spots infringing content2. they contact the VP of OIT3. VP of OIT has the page or site with the
infringing content taken down4. owner/maintainer of that page or site
is notified
Comply with the takedown? you can put your page or site back up,
minus the infringing content no lawsuit, no criminal penalties
Issue a counter-notice? your page or site goes back up with the
allegedly infringing content the copyright owner has 14 days to sue
you. you will have to go to court to argue that
you had permission or it was Fair Use do not do this without talking to a
lawyer first!
The short, short version DMCA takedown notices are very
disruptive, so to avoid them: use the Copyright Information Web Site to
make sure your content is not infringing before you put it up
if you have doubts, Ask A Librarian direct colleagues to these resources if you
are concerned that they are infringing
To spark your memory: We talked about
Public Domain and the Public Domain Helper
Open Content, the Creative Commons Fair Use and the Fair Use Helper Getting Permission and the Getting
Permission Guide DMCA Takedowns and how to avoid them
Questions? Issues raised? Still confused? Anything I didn’t cover? Want to see something again?
Thank you! Copyright Information Web Site
http://www.esc.edu/copyright on the library web site, under the Services
tab Ask A Librarian
http://www.esc.edu/askalibrarian [email protected] ext. 2222