This document discusses copyright and fair use laws regarding digital content and materials found online. It addresses issues like determining whether a work is in the public domain, obtaining permission to use copyrighted works, and exceptions for educational use under the TEACH Act of 2002. The document also provides references for learning more about copyright clearance organizations and determining ownership of a work if the original owner is unknown or cannot be contacted.

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2. Mass digitization Public domain Orphan works Materials on Internet Copyright protection Implied vs express licenses Fair use TEACH ACT 2002

3. It is an organization where they are developing tools to help find information in the public domain.

4. This organizations works to get the “reasonable searches for copyright owners of different types of work (Harper, 2007).”

5. Refers to the usage of information on that is in the internet and anyone can use it. More information on the public domain, http://fairuse.stanford.edu/Copyright_and_Fair_Use_Overview/chapter8/

6. Not enough information on owner and date of work.

7. The use of materials on the internet and copyright laws is unclear. Assumption that its public domain.

8. Anything that is put onto the internet or computer has copyright protection automatically.

9. Implied Expressed The author of a work implies specific usage of the work. For example, limited time frame. Detailed description of what the author allows the reader to have from their work. Creative Commons license allows others to use or build onto the authors work.

10. The term fair use is hard to explain in the advancing world of the internet. It does “balance authors rights to reasonable compensation with the public’s right to the ideas contained in copyrighted works (Harper, 2007).”

11. What is infringement? The use of an authors work and duplicating their work without the consent or permission of the author. The law or court can give a $150,000 fine if anyone were to use copyrighted work and would also be penalized if they did not know that they broke the law.

12. Law passed in 2002, which gave educators “separate set of rights in addition to fair use, to display and perform others’ work in the classroom (Harper, 2007).” In addition the educators were now allowed to the same in distance education.

13. It is imperative that everyone get permission if needed from various sources such as the librarian and/or organizations such as the CCC. Collective rights organizations Copyright Clearance Center (CCC) Foreign collectives Image Archives Music performance Play rights New Archives Movies Contacting the owner Changed owner Confirming authority of grant permission Written permission Difficulty identifying owner Unidentifiable/unresponsive owner

14. Harper, George. (2007) The Copyright Crash Course. In University of Texas Libraries. Retrieved September 1, 2011, from http://copyright.lib.utexas.edu/ . Microsoft Clipart, http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/images/ Public Domain, (2011). http://fairuse.stanford.edu/Copyright_and_Fair_Use_Overview/chapter8/