This workshop will provide you with a practical workflow for navigating copyright questions and legal considerations for your dissertation or thesis. Whether you’re just starting to write or you’re getting ready to file, you can use this workflow to figure out what you can use, what rights you have, and what it means to share your dissertation online.
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Copyright and Your Dissertation
1. Copyright & Fair Use for Digital Projects
Copyright &
Your Dissertation
Office of Scholarly
Communication Services
Berkeley Library
Rachael Samberg, J.D., MLIS
3. We said you have
rights
Alavi, S. J. (2013). The Poetics of
Commitment in Modern Persian: A Case
of Three Revolutionary Poets in
Iran. UC Berkeley.
ProQuest ID:
Alavi_berkeley_0028E_14033.
Retrieved from:
https://escholarship.org/uc/
item/9vn474vw
4. We’ll help you
think about
other people’s
stuff
Solution to Viscous Burger’s Equation
https://www.researchgate.net/figure/The-solution-to-v
iscous-Burgers-equation-11-with-e-0-04_fig1_228445669
6. Trieste, Umberto Saba, 1910
Ho attraversato tutta la
città.
Poi ho salita un'erta,
popolosa in principio, in
là deserta,
chiusa da un muricciolo:
Trieste, trans. Kline, 2012
I traversed the whole
city.
Then climbed a hill
crowded at first, in the
end deserted,
closed off by a little
wall:
http://poetsofmodernity.xyz/POMBR/Italian/FiveItalianPoets.htm#anchor_Toc326225674
Or text...
14. Original expression
Protects expressions,
not ideas or facts
Must be original,
authored, & fixed
Ghana Statistical Service, “Gross Domestic Product 2016,”
http://www.statsghana.gov.gh/gdp_new.html By Rachael G. Samberg
15. Limited period of timeVaries, but at
least author’s life
+ 70 years…
Which means that
within “protected”
period, permission
needed to
reproduce, display,
perform, etc.
Unless...
20. Fair Use
17 U.S.C. § 107
The fair use of a
copyrighted work…for
purposes such as
criticism, comment,
news reporting,
teaching…,
scholarship, or
research, is not an
infringement of
copyright.
21. e.g. Comparing visual
representations of Turkey
George Georgiou,
http://www.georgegeorgiou.net/projects.php
1. Purpose & character
Commercial vs. non-commercial;
whether “transformative”
2. Nature of copyrighted work
Factual/scholarly work vs. more
creative
3. Amount and substantiality
Size & importance of portion used in
relation to whole
4. Effect on potential market
Whether it supplants market for
purchasing/licensing original
32. Get permission
for what you need
“The image may be displayed
in eBook format for a period
of up to ten years only. All
future editions, reprints,
translations, or formats
(including electronic media)
must be negotiated
separately.”
Robert Rauschenberg, “Bed”
Image file MOMA
36. Archives
I understand that permission
to publish, or otherwise
publicly use, materials...must
be [granted by library]
I understand further that the
University makes no
representation that it is the
owner of the copyright... and
that permission to publish
must also be obtained from the
owner of the copyright.
38. Boston
Museum of Fine Arts
The use of the Website
constitutes an acceptance
of the following…
2. FAIR USE PERMITTED. Some
materials are made
available for limited
non-commercial,
educational, and personal
use only, or for fair use
as defined in the United
States copyright laws.
Users may download these
files for personal use.
(www.mfa.org) Terms of Use
39. Harry Ransom Center
If you intend to quote
extensive amounts of text, use
other original content, or
reproduce images from this
site, please contact us for
permission.
http://www.hrc.utexas.edu/use/
40. Rights of Privacy
Protect the people in the work
Federal (e.g. FERPA & HIPAA)
State (e.g. intrusion, private
facts, false light,
appropriation of likeness)
Limitations:
- Newsworthiness
- Permission
- Death