This document discusses key topics related to copyright including who owns copyrighted works, rights of copyright owners, managing copyrights through licenses and permissions, public domain works, fair use, and the TEACH Act. It explains that the author owns the copyright to any original works they create. Copyright owners have the exclusive right to copy, distribute, display and perform their works. Creative Commons licenses allow authors to specify how others can use and share their works. The TEACH Act provides exceptions for educational use of copyrighted materials. Permission is required to use copyrighted content beyond fair use.

1. COPY RIGHTS
WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW
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2. CONTENT
who owns what you just created
your rights as a copyright owner
Manage your Copyrights
Creative Commons licenses
open Access
The public domain and orphan works
Using materials from the Internet
Fair use of copyrighted materials
The TEACH Act
Getting permission

3. WHO OWNS WHAT YOU JUST CREATED
Two reasons you must know Who owns what?
Creating a Work
working with others in a team project
when you want to know who and will have right after completing the works
Working beyond the bounds of the fair use agreement and you want to
know who to ask for permission before the use

4. YOUR RIGHTS AS A COPYRIGHT OWNER
Copyrights gives you the (Author) all right to
your work
Allows you to make copies, public
distribution, display and perform your work, and
in digital sound recording
Your rights will go on for a lifetime plus 70
years
The federal Law allows you to enforce your
right

5. MANAGE YOUR COPYRIGHTS
When you commercialize your works for commercial use
For-profit publishers
Society publishers who may be non-profit
When you don't commercialize your works
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gives you the exclusive rights to make copies
to distribute your work
to display and perform your work publicly

6. CREATIVE COMMONS LICENSES
Creative Commons allows everyone to view
your work to millions.
Eight companies are on the list
Al Jazeera
Flickr
Google
Nine Inch Nails
OpenCourseWare
Public Library of Science
Wikipedia
Whitehouse.gov

7. OPEN ACCESS
Everything is viewable on the web free of charge
The Concept has being around for 20 years
Every Single Scholar will have their work freely on the web
Might go through some names changes by different Publishers
Might Be owned by 2 or 3 different publishers

8. THE PUBLIC DOMAIN AND ORPHAN WORKS
Public Domain
Examples of Public Domain are Google, Amazon, Yahoo, and Microsoft
Any material in the Public Domain is free to the public
Orphan works
Still protected under the Copyrights
Owners are unknown but still protected under copyrights
Unable to be located for example a historical photograph, architectural
drawings, and personal papers

9. USING MATERIALS FROM THE INTERNET
Copyright law governs the use of materials you might find on the Internet
Not everything you find over the Internet is Copyright Protected
The saving grace implies that the author assumes that material will be
read, downloaded, Printed Out to some degree
You can be sued for coping and distributing others' copyrighted material without
permission.

10. FAIR USE OF COPYRIGHTED MATERIALS
Libraries are protect form being liable for copy rights infringement
Fair use Applies to the us of online material
Fair use Sections 107 reserves limited use
Works Published on or before 12/31/1922 are in public domain
Works Published 1/1/1923 thru 12/ 31/1978 are protected for 95 years

11. THE TEACH ACT
Copyrights law gives educators separate set of rights in addition to fair use
The Teach act became into law in the late in 2002
The Act gives teacher right to perform and display works and copies
The Teach Act Section 110(2) does not cover everyone it only applies to
accredited nonprofit educational institutions.
some restrictions in the digital delivery of supplemental reading, viewing, or
listening materials

12. GETTING PERMISSION
Get permission before using any material
Contact the author or the Publisher
Copyright owner might not be the original owner
Make sure that the person giving you permission is authorized to do so
Get your permission in writing
It may be difficult to find the original owner especially when dealing with historical
photographs, architectural drawings
Even though you go through all the steps you may not be able figure out whom
to ask or the owner may not respond

13. SOURCES
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person-and-copyright-sign.html
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image.jpg
Slide 5 http://www.rmacart.com/index.50.jpg
Slide 6 http://infojustice.org/wp-
content/uploads/2011/01/creative_commons2.jpg

14. SOURCES
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