2. Course Hero
• 2 tiers of access, basic and premier
• Pay a fee to get premier access or upload the required number of
documents
• Premier access allows you to have access to all documents on the site
• Organized by department (eg. Geography has about 350 documents)
• Framed as a note sharing site, but the documents uploaded are often
the IP of the instructors
• Includes things like slides, exams, exam keys, study guides etc.
3. Who owns Copyright in teaching
materials?
Article 16 in the collective agreement: All Intellectual Property is
owned by the Member(s) who create(s) it subject to
• (a) any other arrangement agreed to in advance for certain types of funding
• provided that the requirements of Article 16.3.2 and Article 16.3.3 have been
• met; or
• (b) any conveyance by the creator of his/her ownership by individual contract
or
• (c) any grant to the University of a licence to use specific copyright material
for educational or research purposes by individual contract.
•Any teaching materials posted to sites like Course Hero are likely to be
owned by instructors
4. How can I have my IP removed from
these sites?
• Course Hero has a “Copyright Dispute Policy”
• Section 512(c)(3) of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA)
• Provide very specific guidelines on how to submit a DMCA Notice
• Identify the work
• Identify the location of the work
• Contact Info
• A number of statements related to your ownership of the work
• Signature (print or digital)
• Email or mail the letter
• If you want help with crafting a letter, contact me and we can do this
together
5. What else can you do?
• Cornell has a website for faculty that includes suggestions on how to
approach IP issues related to note taking sites.
https://copyright.cornell.edu/policies/course-materials.cfm
• Suggestions
• Post your materials online and license them through the Creative Commons
• Have your teaching materials removed from sites like Course Hero
• The rest of this page includes suggestions for using Google to find
posted course materials, and instructions for requesting the removal
of material, including a sample DMCA request letter
6. Electronic Reserves
• We are now in our second Fall term offering electronic reserve/digital
course-pack services through the library
• 5290 Items
• 2172 library licensed works
• 2065 scanned documents
• 147 items on print reserve
• 906 classified as other (web page links, course materials, streaming video
etc.)
• New resources this year: Criterion Pictures Feature Films, Films on
Demand
• We are now accepting Winter courses (deadline for submission is
December 5th
)
7. Teaching Related Services
• E-reserves: http://library.queensu.ca/ereserves
• Copyright consultations
• Website: http://library.queensu.ca/copyright
• Workshops and departmental meetings
• Email: Mark.Swartz@queensu.ca
• Phone: 613-533-6000 ext. 78510
• Office: Back of Stauffer (first floor: room 129A)
Editor's Notes
Hugh Horton and Johanne Benard asked me to come speak about Coursesmart.com and other similar note taking sites,
Brief update on copyright, Electronic reserves, etc.
Section 512 (c) (3) is a mechanism that allows copyright owners to request that copyrighted content that they own to be removed from a website.
For example, if you were a filmmaker, and you found your film on Youtube, you could submit a dmca request to Youtube