update to Building Creative Expression

1. Richard Wilson
02/04/2012
Revision 2

2. What is copyright?
 A legal statement enforced
by the courts to protect
intellectual property.
 Comprehensively assigned
by default

3. Copyright and Distribution
 Distribution of copyright works without
permission is illegal
 Default copyright laws lock the author’s work
 Archive your work for open access
 License work using Creative Commons 3.0

4. Handling Orphan Works
 The author cannot be found
 Legislation protects orphan works
 Overprotection is culturally limiting
 Google, UT others developing tools to
help free what is in public domain

5. Using other people’s materials
 The Internet is not public domain
 Internet publishing implies a limited
license not a commercial license
 For caution, get permission before use

6. Fair Use: overview
 Fair use defines exceptions to copyright
 Allows limited use of copyright material
 Decided by courts and uses 4 factors
 character of use
 nature of work to be used
 how much of work will be used
 effect on original market

7. Fair use: Rough guidelines
only
Fair use Copyright
not fair use
 Fact
 Creative
 Published
 Unpublished
 Nonprofit
 Commercial use
 Educational
 Used in full or large part
 Personal
 Competes with original
 Small amount used
 Avoids royalty payment
 Out of print
 Owner unidentifiable

8. Creative Commons 3.0
 Free online tools for self managing
copyright licensing
 Give your work the freedoms you want
 Can set open access
 Retain acknowledgement of ownership

9. TEACH Act
 2002 law expands educator’s rights
 Educator can show anything related to
curriculum
 Materials must be pared down and
adhere to section 110(2) for distance
learning

10. Section 110(2) Distance
Learning
 Legal to transmit non-drama
 Legal to transmit limited portions off all works
 Legal to transmit still images
 Non-profit educational institutions

11. Section 110(2) Conditions
 Part of institutional activity
 Performed by instructor
 Related to course content
 Attribute notice of copyright
 Limited to duration of class only
 Copies retained by institution

12. References
Creative Commons, (2012). Who uses CC ?. Retrieved from
http://creativecommons.org/who-uses-cc
University of Texas Libraries, (2007). Copyright Crash Course.
Retrieved from http://copyright.lib.utexas.edu/