This document provides an overview of copyright including what can be copyrighted, ownership, protection, permissions, fair use, the Teach Act, and Creative Commons licensing. It explains that copyright provides economic rights to original creative works fixed in a tangible medium. Authors can copyright books, music, art, software and more. Copyright protection begins upon creation of a work and lasts for the author's lifetime plus 70 years. The document also discusses how copyright affects the public and limitations on use like fair use and the Teach Act that enable some uses in education.
2. Outline
• What are Copyrights?
• What can you Copyright?
• Ownership
• Protection
• Effect on the Public
• Permissions
• Copyright Example
• Public Fair Use
• Teach Act
• Creative Commons
• Creative Commons Examples
3. What are Copyrights?
• Expressions of original authorship, fixed in a
tangible medium of expression
• Economic rights
• Trade them for publication
• Others attribute references to our work to us
4. What can you copyright?
• Books
• Journals
• Music
• Movies
• Software
• Artworks
6. Protection
• From the moment of their fixation in a
tangible medium
• Rights are valid for authors lifetime + 70 years
• Copyright Act gives specific rights that only
authors can exercise
*Registration with the Copyright Office can also be done
7. Effect on Public
• Classroom, and at work
• Create new work based on others work
• Open source software development
• Open access to research
• Limits the digitization's of books in public
domain
8. Permission
• Identify the author and contact them
• Was it work for hire?
• Did they convey away any of their rights?
*Issues finding owner? Caution $$$ if material is being used.
10. Public Fair Use *
• You have the right to display your own copies
• To lend them or give them away
• Sell them
• Reproduce parts of the works
• Reproduce the entire work
*As long as the work is TRASFORMATIVE-that is adds value to the
work for a new audience
11. Teach Act
Educators have the right to display and
perform others work in the classroom in
any medium
• Limitations in distance education classes
• Supplements have to be delivered during class
time
• Can copy digital works and digitize analog
works, but with limitations
12. Creative Commons
It enables the copyright author to select a
license type and associate it with
anything they put online. It allows for
more flexibility than copyright alone.
13. Creative Commons Examples:
• Give credit for the original creation
• Identical creation terms
• Only for redistribution and unchanged
• Non commercial, license can be modified
• Non commercial with identical license terms
• In whole, non commercial
14. References:
• Cass, J.. "Free Logo Copyright Poster." Copyright_logo. Logo
Designer Blog, 2009. Web. 3 Jul 2012.
<http://logodesignerblog.com/free-logo-copyright-poster/>.
• Creative Commons. "About the licenses - Creative Commons."
Creative commons. Creative Commons, 2012. Web. 3 Jul 2012.
<http://creativecommons.org/licenses/>.
• Harper, Georgia. "Copyright Crash Course." University of Texas
Libraries. The University of Texas at Austin, 2007. Web. 3 Jul 2012.
<http://copyright.lib.utexas.edu/ >.
• YouTube. "YouTube Copyright School." YouTube . YouTube, 2011.
Web. 3 Jul 2012. <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=InzDjH1-
9Ns&feature=related>.
Editor's Notes
Copyrights enable us to require that others attribute references to our work to us; they give us economic rights because we can trade them for publication which would otherwise prove too expensive a proposition, at least in the past.
