2. Who owns what? Eventually this question will be squabbled over. It might come in handy for royalty purposes and etc. Beyond the Fair Use Policy example by the TEACH Act, people need to get permission from owner to use their work. We need the contact info!
3. Who is the Owner? Usually the author, can be joint owners! An author is someone who contributes expression to the work Exceptions Work-for-hire rules U.T. System Intelligent Property Policy needs to apply Sharing /Collaboration Collaboration can complicate ownership Start with clear distinctions and make an agreement of ownership at the start.
4. Protecting Your Work Enforce your rights, you need to….. register your automatic copyright with the Copyright Office. What is that I can do, that no one else can’t do with my work? make copies, prepare derivative works, publicly distribute, display and perform the work, and in the case of digital sound recordings, to perform the works over a digital network. Do I really need to protect my work? You make the call. To share/ Not to Share. Creative Commons.
5. Can my copyright be a HASSLE? Miss, Miss, Miss can I have permission, Miss, Miss????? Do I have a Functional need to have a copyright? Depend on it as a source of income? I can’t share with creative commons. Can it be used for creativity/education/research? I can share. And I can request conditions. Advice Actively manage, your rights stay with you over 100 years. Don’t block your work even after your dead. Don’t let your works become orphan works!
6. Thinking about using Internet Materials? Who is the owner there? Mostly everything is protected by an implied license. automatically gives consent to commercial use of it without permission. What if I am the author? You want a Express License. Such as a creative commons license.
7. Educator Privileges-TEACH ACT Making copies? with Section 110 permits those authorized to perform and display works under 110 to copy digital works and digitize analog works in order to make authorized displays Some schools/works are excluded. Refer to the TEACH ACT- checklist to be informed about all educator privileges.
