2. who owns what you just created
your rights as a copyright owner
Manage your Copyrights
Creative Commons licenses
open Access
The public domain and orphan works
Using materials from the Internet
Fair use of copyrighted materials
The TEACH Act
Getting permission
3. 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
4. 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
5. 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
6. 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
7. 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
8. 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
9. the public domain and orphan
works
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
10. 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.
11. 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
12. 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
13. 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