Copyright By: Juan Betancourt

Outline What are Copyrights? What can you Copyright? Ownership Protection Effect on the Public Permissions Copyright Example Public Fair Use Teach Act Creative Commons Creative Commons Examples

What are Copyrights? Expressions of original authorship, fixed in a tangible medium of expression Economic rights Trade them for publication Others attribute references to our work to us

What can you copyright? Books Journals Music Movies Software Artworks

Ownership Author Work for hire Collaboration

Protection From the moment of their fixation in a tangible medium Rights are valid for authors lifetime + 70 years Copyright Act gives specific rights that only authors can exercise *Registration with the Copyright Office can also be done

Effect on Public Classroom, and at work Create new work based on others work Open source software development Open access to research Limits the digitization's of books in public domain

Permission Identify the author and contact them Was it work for hire? Did they convey away any of their rights? *Issues finding owner? Caution $$$ if material is being used.

Copyright Example

Public Fair Use * You have the right to display your own copies To lend them or give them away Sell them Reproduce parts of the works Reproduce the entire work *As long as the work is TRASFORMATIVE-that is adds value to the work for a new audience

Teach Act Educators have the right to display and perform others work in the classroom in any medium Limitations in distance education classes Supplements have to be delivered during class time Can copy digital works and digitize analog works, but with limitations

Creative Commons It enables the copyright author to select a license type and associate it with anything they put online. It allows for more flexibility than copyright alone.

Creative Commons Examples: Give credit for the original creation Identical creation terms Only for redistribution and unchanged Non commercial, license can be modified Non commercial with identical license terms In whole, non commercial

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