This document summarizes a discussion on copyright considerations during a crisis. It notes that the discussion involved Lesley Ellen Harris, Jill Hurst-Wahl, and Kenneth D. Crews addressing questions about content providers loosening restrictions, a teacher's liability for sharing unauthorized internet content with students, how much to worry about copyright while doing emergency work, and handling newly created educational content stemming from the crisis situation.

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Considering Copyright
during a Crisis
Lesley Ellen Harris, Jill Hurst-Wahl, & Kenneth D. Crews
Friday, April 3, 2020

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Considering Copyright during a Crisis | Lesley Ellen Harris, Jill Hurst-Wahl, & Kenneth D. Crews
Lesley Ellen Harris
 CEO of Copyrightlaws.com, copyright consultant,
published author, copyright blogger, and educator
Kenneth D. Crews
 Attorney, author, professor, and international copyright
consultant
Jill Hurst-Wahl
 Consultant, speaker, writer, and educator, and
President of Hurst Associates, Ltd

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Considering Copyright during a Crisis | Lesley Ellen Harris, Jill Hurst-Wahl, & Kenneth D. Crews
Can you share information
about how some content
providers are loosening
restrictions?

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Considering Copyright during a Crisis | Lesley Ellen Harris, Jill Hurst-Wahl, & Kenneth D. Crews
A teacher wants to point
students towards material
they need, but the versions
available on the Internet are
not legal copies. What is
the liability of the teacher?

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Considering Copyright during a Crisis | Lesley Ellen Harris, Jill Hurst-Wahl, & Kenneth D. Crews
How much should we worry
day-to-day about copyright
while we’re trying to do our
jobs in this emergency?

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Considering Copyright during a Crisis | Lesley Ellen Harris, Jill Hurst-Wahl, & Kenneth D. Crews
What do we do with all of
the content that’s now
being created as a result of
this situation? Courses?
References guides?
Webinars? Videos?

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Considering Copyright during a Crisis | Lesley Ellen Harris, Jill Hurst-Wahl, & Kenneth D. Crews
Thank you!