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©opyright Guidelines  for  Digital Media  ,[object Object],[object Object]
What we’ll cover:  ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]
2 kinds of works: ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]
Copyright is the right to:  ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]
Copyright Infringement  ≠ Plagiarism
Copyrighted works must be used: ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]
Fair Use Guidelines
4 Fair Use Factors ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]
Fair Use Guidelines for Educational Multimedia   http://www.utsystem.edu/ogc/intellectualproperty/ccmcguid.htm
Fair Use Best Practices ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]
Claiming copyright for your work
What must I do to claim copyright as a creator? ,[object Object],[object Object]
For additional protection… ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]
Is your work  “made for hire?”
Copyleft
Creative Commons ,[object Object],[object Object]
Sean Aune’s  “30+ Places to Find Creative Commons Media”  (Sitepoint blog)
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Copyright Guidelines for Digital Media: Key Takeaways

Notas del editor

  1. One kind of work is “public domain”. This includes facts and ideas, anything produced by the U.S. government, and anything for which copyright protection has “run out” according to U.S. law. Currently, anything that is OLDER THAN 1923 is public domain. If a book was written before 1923, now you can reproduce the work. Barack Obama’s speeches, while he is president, are PUBLIC DOMAIN. So what can you do with public domain works? The same thing that you cannot do with copyrighted works.
  2. Here is a list of things that you, as copyright owner, have the exclusive right to do. This is also a list of activities that you can do with public domain works. So, you could record Barack Obama’s speech and distribute it, make lots of copies, and sell them, without infringing hist copyright -- he has none, since these speeches are a “work for hire” for the U.S. Government.
  3. Because they both have to do with intellectual property, copyright infringement and plagiarism are often confused. Suffice it to say that there is ONE thing that you should NEVER do with Barack Obama’s speech, and that is, use it as your own words and/or ideas, without giving him credit. To do so would be intellectually dishonest, unethical, and it would be plagiarism. It’s not necessarily illegal, but definitely unethical. On the other hand, if you use a copyrighted work, and give all kinds of credit in the world to the original author, you could still be infringing on the person’s copyright if you are doing any of the activities on the list without obtaining permission or without fairly using it.
  4. Purpose of the use The amount of the original work used The nature of the original work used (creative? nonfiction?) The effect of the use on the market for the original
  5. Notice the guidelines are only guidelines, NOT law. There is much License trumps fair use guidelines. CONFU are guidelines, and many educational institutions are claiming that they are too restrictive. Linking is (almost) always ok (there are even suits about deep linking). Use fair use guidelines to document your uses of
  6. Notice the guidelines are only guidelines, NOT law. There is much License trumps fair use guidelines. CONFU are guidelines, and many educational institutions are claiming that they are too restrictive. Linking is (almost) always ok (there are even suits about deep linking). Use fair use guidelines to document your uses of In a report by the Center for Social Media, entitled “The cost of copyright confusion for media literacy,” authors state that hyper-restrictive copyright policies at schools and teachers’ own misunderstandings about fair use lead to less effective teaching and less innovation. The authors state, “This is not only unfortuante but unnecessary, since copyright law permits a wide range of uses of copyrighted material without permission or payment.”
  7. Note that neither of these is required to achieve copyright protection. However, you will derive additional benefits by doing so. For instance, you can collect additional fees in damages if you bring a copyright infringement suit against someone and your work was registered with the Copyright Office.
  8. Obviously, if you are creating a work as a function of your employment by another person or an organization, most likely your work is “made for hire” and that other entity owns the copyright. Educational institutions usually have policies governing works made for hire. Often in the academic arena, creators retain copyright ownership of their work. But again, it depends on the policy of the institution. Conversely, if you are hiring a consultant or developer to (say an e-learning module) MAKE SURE that copyright ownership is addressed in the contract.
  9. Another philosophy has arisen, especially in the era of digital media. That is “copyleft” Copyleft means that people who create copyrighted works, instead of claiming copyright in the work, they give up those claims and kind of dedicate the work to the public good. Anyone may remix, copy, or reuse the work, usually as long as they give credit to the original author and they pay it forward, that is, that same license applies to any derivative works that they create.
  10. Other sources of copyleft images, videos, text, and sounds include: Wikipedia Flickr And many, many more