Know your COPY RIGHTS and be RIGHT By

Know your COPY RIGHTS and be RIGHT! By: Mari Montelongo EDTC 6340

Copy Right Infringement Plagiarism Public Domain Content on the Web Orphan Works Fair Use TEACH Act Video Permission Liabilities

Infringement • • • To reproduce the work To distribute copies To perform the work publicly To sale copyrighted works Transfer of copyrighted ownership To display copyrighted work publicly Any copyrighted activity without the owner’s permission is piracy and theft

Plagiarism copying • • language, thoughts, ideas, or expressions and then use them as their own original work without giving credit to the owner.

Public Domain • Author’s rights expired • Works authorized by the author • Works that did not meet the required copyright protection • After Life of author + 70 years • After 120 years from date of creation No permission is needed to copy or use public domain

Content on the Web copyright is automatic • Copyright governs the internet • Simply putting the paper in the electronic medium is copy righted • No need to post a notice of copyright

Orphan’s Work • • Works that does not have an owner Works that lacks insufficient information to identify the owner Works not registered Works' owner cannot be found

Fair Use No permission is needed from the owner if: • The amount of work is limited • Works cannot be used for profitable purposes • Transforming the work is allowed but needs to add value to the new audience Examples: • Commentary • Criticism • News reporting • Research • Teaching • Library archiving • scholarship

TEACH ACT Provides educators the right to: • criticism, • news reporting, • teaching, • school research • show or play • other’s work in the classroom

Permission • Contact the copy owner • Contact the publisher • Give the author credit • Secure permission • Request permission in writing

Liabilities for Copyright Infringement Payment required by the law: • Payment of profits • Payment of attorneys fees • Payment from $750 to $150, 000 • Payment of courts • Destruction of materials infringed • 1 to 5 years of jail

More about COPYRIGHT

Resources • • • http: //www. google. com http: //copyright. universityofcalifornia. edu/publicdomain. html http: //www. publicknowledge. org/issues/ow/ http: //en. wikipedia. org/wiki/Fair_use http: //copyright. lib. utexas. edu/teachact. html http: //www. ams. org/publications/authors/permissions#four http: //www. lib. uconn. edu/copyright/liability. html http: //copyright. cornell. edu/resources/publicdomain. cfm http: //www. copyright. gov/help/faq-infringement. html