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In an age of connected learning, navigating the copyright landscape can be challenging. The following resources may help you as you attempt to answer key copyright questions about content use, re-use, distribution, creation, and more.
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- EDUCAUSE Policy Topic: Intellectual Property
Looking to find out more about copyright, Fair Use, DMCA, and other legislation in this area? This page from the EDUCAUSE Policy office provides a useful overview of IP issues facing higher education. - EDUCAUSE Library: Copyright and IP Policies
Find model campus policies in the EDUCAUSE Library. - Copyright Timeline: A History of Copyright in the United States
This timeline from the Association of Research Libraries is a comprehensive look at the legal evolution of copyright law in the United States. - Copyright Crash Course
From the University of Texas Libraries, this online interactive guide points to copyright’s role in the flow of research and teaching, and helps users understand ownership, management, and sharing of copyrights. - Know Your Copyrights
An online guide from ARL that “looks at copyright from the perspectives of all key academic stakeholders and suggests what each group can do to enhance their copyright practices and advance academic interests. - American University Center for Social Media: Codes of Best Practices in Fair Use
This site features a number of resources related to fair use, including teaching materials, codes of best practices, and other documents. Topics include OpenCourseWare, online video, academic and research libraries, and more. - Orphan Works and Mass Digitization
This Library of Congress site is a review of “the problem of orphan works under U.S. copyright law” and includes links to pertinent works. - ARL Copyright and Intellectual Property
This website provides helpful resources related to Fair Use, author rights, legislation, and international copyright and IP.
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- The TEACH Act amended the Copyright Act; see SEC. 13301. EDUCATIONAL USE COPYRIGHT EXEMPTION for that section of the law.
- See also the ALA website, Distance Education and the TEACH Act, for more information.
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- Authors Guild, Inc., et al. v. HathiTrust et al.
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EDUCAUSE created a page that provides resources related to the Georgia State copyright case (Cambridge University Press et al. v. Patton et al.). This lawsuit brought by several publishers against Georgia State University involves the use of copyrighted materials in e-reserves in higher education, but the impact of the case and its potential results may be far more reaching. - UCLA Streaming Video Lawsuit
Library Items on this Topic
EDUCAUSE Library Items for Copyright
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The Direction of Fair Use for Education: New Law and New Possibilities
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July 12, 2012
Copyright and fair use has long been a critical element of innovative technologies. On campus, we steadily create new works and use existing ones—and nearly all of them are automatically pr…
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What's at Stake in the HathiTrust Lawsuit?
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October 28, 2011
On September 12, the Authors Guild, the Australian Society of Authors, the Union Des Écrivaines et des Écrivains Québécois (UNEQ), and eight individual authors filed suit against HathiTrust, …
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The Georgia State Copyright Case: Issues and Implications
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September 8, 2011
The Georgia State University copyright infringement case has been closely watched in higher education over the last several years. This lawsuit, brought by several publishers against Georgia S…
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Enforcing Copyright on Campus Networks: Lessons Learned and Next Steps
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October 13, 2010
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A session at the EDUCAUSE 2010 Annual Conference
Since July 1, campus networks have been subject to enforcement of the P2P provisions of the Higher Education Opportunity Act. Coincidentally, a variety of government offices have initiated separate…
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Checkpointing the ACTA Debate: Where Are We, and Where Do We Go from Here?
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June 14, 2010
ACTA, the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement, has been under negotiation since 2007 by representatives from the United States and several dozen other countries. Although nominally limited to cou…
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Complying with P2P Mandates in the Higher Education Opportunity Act of 2008
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November 5, 2009
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A session at the EDUCAUSE 2009 Annual Conference
The Higher Education Opportunity Act (HEOA) of 2008 requires all campuses to certify that they have plans to "effectively combat the unauthorized distribution of copyrighted material, includin…
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It Is About Time: Getting Our Values Around Copyright Right
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November 5, 2009
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A session at the EDUCAUSE 2009 Annual Conference
In this talk, Lawrence Lessig will review the progress of the "open access" movement in education. He will make a call for educators to finally resolve this issue in a way that enables th…
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Cyber Ethics: A Values-Based Approach
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October 31, 2008
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A session at the EDUCAUSE 2008 Annual Conference
Whether they're downloading music, videos, and software or updating their profiles on social networking sites, students are bombarded by a host of ethical issues online. Clarkson has embarked …
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P2P War Stories: Tales from the Trenches
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October 29, 2008
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A session at the EDUCAUSE 2008 Annual Conference
As campuses receive an increasing number of DMCA notices and settlement letters, and as more and different technological solutions of varying worth arrive and new legal threats emerge, IT organizat…
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Digging Deep with P2P: Understanding Students' Media Habits
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October 30, 2008
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A session at the EDUCAUSE 2008 Annual Conference
Illinois State University's Digital Citizen Project teamed up with Carnegie Mellon University researchers to conduct multidisciplinary qualitative and quantitative analysis and studies of data…
