Copyright Issues in Online Teaching
Copyright in Higher Education: "Why arrange copyright? What is the importance for me? What is arranged by law? What do I need to do myself? Copyright: easier than you think! This website provides answers to the above questions. ...There are a few basic rules, which we aim to explain. The website also provides background information and suggests practical ways of dealing with copyright issues." 05/19/08
"Fair Dealing" (Commonwealth copyright info): This wikipedia entry is a starting point if you're at all confused about copyright guidelines. "Fair dealing is an enumerated set of possible defenses against an action for infringement of an exclusive right of copyright." 10/21/07
"Fair Use" (like the above, unique to the U.S.A.): (wikipedia entry) "A doctrine in United States copyright law that allows limited use of copyrighted material without requiring permission from the rights holders, such as use for scholarship or review. It provides for the legal, non-licensed citation or incorporation of copyrighted material in another author's work under a four-factor balancing test." 10/21/07
The Copyright Website: "Welcome to the Internet's first and premiere Copyright Registration and Information Resource. The Copyright Website strives to lubricate the machinations of information delivery by providing transparency to a particularly opaque and obtuse area of intellectual property. Whether you want to protect your own work, or check out the legal hijinks of the movie, recording and software industries, you've come to the right place!" 01/27/05
The Canadian Intellectual Property Office: A big section about copyright. Intellectual property links. Sections about patents, trade-marks, industrial design, service standards. Printable forms, publications, newsroom.
The Cost of Copyright Confusion for Media Literacy: Confused about copyright for education purposes? Check out this article/report. 10/21/07
Canadian Copyright Act: The full text of it. 10/21/07
Access Copyright (formerly CanCopy): Canadian "innovative copyright licensing solutions". "In schools across Canada, from elementary to post secondary, the comprehensive photocopy licence from Access Copyright is at work every day, making sure Canadian educators and students have access to a global repertoire of content to meet their learning needs. The licence gives educators and students advance permission to copy from millions of copyright protected newspapers, magazines, journals and books from around the world, complementing what is allowed under fair dealing, educational exceptions under the Copyright Act, and through the public domain." Access Copyright also provides for advance clearance and pay-per-use licenses "for copying beyond the limits of the comprehensive licence. Pay-per-use licences can cover needs such as digital uses (posting content online or scanning it, for example)." 10/21/07
Canada and Copyright: A
history and a discussion. "Canadians are one group out
of very few who refer to downloading copyrighted music for free as legal." 06/19/04
Copyright in the Digital
Age: A conference presentation from Dan McGuire
(Digital Licensing Specialist, eLearning Innovation Centre, Simon Fraser University,
Surrey, BC, Canada). Contains LOTS of useful and up to date information about
copyright, including creative works, internet material, etc. 06/03/04
DRM Dictionary: Digital Rights Management (DRM) is the science, art, and business of controlling digital goods so that all of the participants in the digital goods chain win: Consumers win by getting a good, perhaps novel product or service at a reasonable price. Distribution and infrastructure providers win by getting paid to facilitate the distribution of goods, and perhaps by additional related interactions with their customers. Content owners win by getting fairly paid for their efforts, and by having new, innovative distribution channels available to them. 12/20/03
Intellectual Property in Education: "In this week's Web Tools Newsletter, we look at the ideas involved in Intellectual Property rights, and the implications for education." 08/16/03
Copyright Comic Strip: A good intro to the reasons for copyright. Light way to make a point. 05/07/03
Deep Linking is Good Linking: Jakob Neilson's take on the deeplinking issue as it pertains to legalities, copyrights, etc. 12/25/02
What Every Teacher
Should Know About Copyright: From 2Learn.ca. "...links to sites
that provide the teacher with crucial information about copyright -- from
both perspectives -- as the creator of an original work and as one who
wishes to use another's original work. We wish to provide background and
guidance to assist teachers and their students in copyright compliance
and protection, wherever possible." 12/25/02
Intellectual Property and Copyright: a collection of links and articles from WebCT's library 09/30/02
Create a Copyright Notice: A good example of how to place a link to a (popup) Legal Notice page near your copyright information on your page. (When you get to the page I've linked, look under the title 'Text and Source Code Protection'.) 08/28/02
Preventing others from copying your material: A list of options includes protection of text, source code, images. Solutions include using the © symbol, javascripts, watermarking, software, and others. Also includes links to copyright law information. 08/28/02
Linking Rights: Interesting article with some good points. At the bottom of the page are three more useful links: Top 10 myths on copyright explained; General introduction to copyright; the author's Radical Philosophy of Intellectual Property. 04/11/02
W3C's Link Myths: also contains link to their Links and Law site. 04/11/02
Reproduction of Copyrighted Works by Educators and Librarians: (pdf) from the United States Copyright Office. 02/13/02
FAQs from the United States Copyright Office, public information section. 02/13/02
UBC's documentation
on Canadian CanCopy Law: Among other things, it contains a very informative
FAQ about copyright issues for educational institutions. 09/05/01
Articles for Website Designers and Site Owners. A recent addition by Ivan Hoffman, Attorney at Law, specialist in Internet and Intellectual Property Law. This site covers copyright, licensing, permissions, linking, fair use, and numerous other legal issues. 08/25/01
Extending Copyright Exemption to Online Courses: US Senate Passes a new Bill in the Technology, Education and Copyright Harmonization Act of 2001. Will this set a worldwide precedent? 06/12/01
Copyright, Links and Law: W3C's word on What's Legal to Copy and What's Not. Also discusses differences between linked and embedded material.
Copyright News: "At the Supreme Court ... arguments in a case on electronic publishing raised the possibility that the court's ruling could have broad repercussions for the future of scholarly research." 04/08/01
10 Big Myths about Copyright Explained 10/20/00
Copyright and Fair Use: Stanford U. 10/27/00
Intellectual Property Mall: "links to a unique collection of intellectual property resources served up by the Franklin Pierce Law Center (without exception continuously ranked by U.S. News & World Report as one of the top five IP law schools in the country ), as well as hundreds of others on the Internet." 10/20/00
Copyright for Computer Authors: from Franklin Pierce Law Center 10/20/00
Copyright on the Internet: from Franlin Pierce Law Center 10/20/00
Copyright Basics: from the U.S.A. Copyright Office
The Copyright Website: "This site endeavors to provide real world, practical and relevant copyright information...and invite solutions to the myriad of copyright tangles that currently permeate the Web."
Copyright Presentation: Includes "fair use", "who owns what", "ask a lawyer" and other links.
Canadian Copyright
Information: The Copyright Act and other links
CANCOPY: the Canadian Copyright
Licensing Agency
The World Intellectual Property Organization:
the Canadian Copyright Licensing Agency