11. Just the Facts
Ma'am
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12. Copyrights on Campus:
a short video
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Editor's Notes
Copyright is …?
a form of protection
given to original works and their creators
the right to this property can be sold or given to others
It’s Mine, All Mine…
The owner of the copyright has certain exclusive rights:
Make copies of the work
Distribute copies of the work
Display the work publicly
Derive new works from the original
It’s Good to be the King (of the copyright)
The copyright owner, without affecting ownership of the copyright, can:
Grant permission to others to use the copyrighted material
Sell a license to freely reproduce the copyrighted material
(An author might allow their book to be made into a movie or T.V. show)
Can I Use This?
The law allows certain instances in which copyrighted material can be used without getting permission:
Fair Use (like making copies)
Public Domain
Library Privilege
Copying for tests or instruction
In the immortal words of Mike Myers as Linda Richman on Coffee Talk “I’m so verklempt! Talk amongst yourselves, here’s a topic: what might be some examples of fair use in the classroom?”
Each table will be a discussion group and we’ll share some of the ideas you come up with after the discussion. We’ll take 3 or 4 minutes to brainstorm.
Who Gets Copyright Protection?
Copyrights cover both published and unpublished works
The protection of a copyright is automatic from the time the work is first created and fixed in a perceivable form
Wouldn’t it be great if pirating movies did no more harm than the video pirates from the movie “Amazon Women on the Moon”? The fact is that the use of copyright material outside the of what is allowed under the law is taking money and credit away from someone else.
Many things can be copyrighted but others cannot.
Movies are copyright items and are therefore protected from use without permission.
So we need to ask the question, can we copyright it?
Items that are Copyrightable
Literary works
Dramatic works
Music
Art
(My dad in China) – tell Chinese story about “You short like us!”
In China the value of pirated software is estimated to be somewhere in the neighborhood of $8.9 billion annually, legal sales totaled $2.6 billion in 2011.
That same year software piracy in the U.S. resulted in a loss of $9.7 billion.
The global piracy rate was estimated to be about 42% of all software.
The commercial value of pirated software worldwide is estimated to be $63.4 billion in 2011.
Surprisingly enough, business decision makers admit to pirating software more often than private software users.
Youtube accounted for 40% of all online videos seen in the U.S. in August, 2009
Clips uploaded by users account for 1/3 of the video streams on which Youtube displays advertising
6.6 million – the number of times each episode of Heroes, the most pirated show of 2009, was illegally downloaded on BitTorrent
5.9 million – the average number of viewers of each episode of Heroes on T.V.
25 million – the estimated number of users for the website Pirate Bay, one of the biggest worldwide file-sharing websites
The National Geographic video can be copyrighted, the facts in the video cannot.
Items that are Not Copyrightable
Facts
Ideas
Systems
Methods of operation
What Can Teachers Do? (WCTD?)
Copyright law allows instructors to display and perform the works of others in the classroom
This is a separate set of rights in addition to Fair Use
These rights are found in Section 110(1) of the Copyright Act and covers all original works an instructor wants to use
