7. Who owns what?
People need to know who owns what
When you create your Whom to ask for permission ?
work you want to know
who will have the rights •identify the author or authors and contact
in the finished work? one or more of them.
The author is usually •ask whether they own the copyright or
the owner whether the work was work for hire.
•ask whether they have conveyed away any
of their rights, and if so, to whom.
8. Copyrights don't manage themselves well
There are many aspects to effective management of your copyrights
When you commercialize your works
you can reserve the right to publicly archive your work
are any costs involved?
When you don't commercialize your works
Think about how you like to use others works; give others the rights
you yourself think are reasonable.
Copyright's bloated bundle gives you the exclusive rights to make
copies (any and all copies), to distribute your work (to the public or to
even offer it to the public), to display and perform your work publicly
- for your lifetime plus 70 additional years.
9. Using materials from the Internet
Many people assume that everything posted on the Internet is
public domain
•The law, however, has changed: neither publication nor a notice of any kind is
required to protect works today.
•postings of all kinds are protected the same as published printed works.
10. The TEACH Act
educators still have recourse to fair use to make copies, create derivative
works, display and perform works publicly and distribute them to
students.
If you are an instructor these are some of the things you want to keep in mind
•My institution is a nonprofit accredited educational institution or a
governmental agency
•It has a policy on the use of copyrighted materials
•It provides accurate information to faculty, students and staff about copyright
•Its systems will not interfere with technological controls within the materials I
want to use
•The materials I want to use are specifically for students in my class
For additional information refer to :
http://copyright.lib.utexas.edu/teachact.html#checklist
11. Fair use of copyrighted materials
Why is fair use like this, and does it have to be this way?
copyright owners and users and their lawyers agree that fair use is so hard to
understand that it fails to provide effective guidance for the use of others' works
today.
In fact, no one strategy for acquiring legal authority to use others' works is
enough today.
We would all appreciate a clear, crisp answer to that one, but far from clear and
crisp, fair use is better described as a shadowy territory whose boundaries are
disputed, more so now than ever, since it applies in the online environment.
