![Scenario #1a & b:
I want to record my own video and use in a
presentation…. can I?
I want to digitize and use my parents video of
protest march from the 1970s… can I?
@ danny.hammontree [CC BY-NC-ND 2.0] http://www.flickr.com/photos/50016673@N00/18023812/](https://image.slidesharecdn.com/copyrightforstudents-130131111010-phpapp02/85/Copyright-Basics-for-students-9-320.jpg)
![Scenario #3
Can I use parts of a ripped DVD for a project?
@john_a_ward [CC BY 2.0] http://www.flickr.com/photos/33624275@N00/313252221/](https://image.slidesharecdn.com/copyrightforstudents-130131111010-phpapp02/85/Copyright-Basics-for-students-11-320.jpg)
![Scenario #4
Can I use a bootleg audio track from a Drive By
Truckers show for my class?
@Trucker _Dan [CC BY-ND 2.0] http://www.flickr.com/photos/60236532@N07/8221650941/](https://image.slidesharecdn.com/copyrightforstudents-130131111010-phpapp02/85/Copyright-Basics-for-students-12-320.jpg)
Copyright Basics for students
- 1. Copyright Basics (from non-lawyers!) Slides compiled with help from David Gwynn, Digital Projects Coordinator, University Libraries
- 2. What rights does copyright grant? • Right to reproduce the work • Right to prepare derivative works • Right to distribute copies • Right of public performance • Right of public display
- 3. Classroom use: What’s OK? Almost anything, if it is: • Part of the instructional program • Shown only by students and instructors to students and instructors • In a physical classroom/education space • Students and instructors are in physical proximity • A legitimate, legal copy with copyright notice intact • Not used for entertainment or recreation
- 4. Can I record off TV? • Yes, but all the previously-mentioned conditions must be met. • Video must be shown within ten days of broadcast and destroyed within 45 days. • Face-to-face classroom use only.
- 5. What’s not OK? • “Ripping” a video or using any other technology for circumventing copy protection • Creating a digital backup copy of an analog video (VHS, for example) if a digital copy is available for purchase. • See Digital Media Copyright Act 1998 http://www.copyright.gov/legislation/dmca.pdf
- 6. How about distance & online classes? TEACH Act (2002) permits digital transmission if: • Integral part of a single, typical class session. • Part of systematic, mediated instructional activity. • At the direction of or under the actual supervision of the instructor.
- 7. How about distance & online classes, con’t But there are limits: • Fair use (“reasonable and limited portions”) • Must be a legally-acquired copy (no “ripping” or circumvention of DRM) • Transmission limited to students & educators • Preclude retention of a usable copy as far as possible (streamed vs. downloadable)
- 8. What are the penalties? • Actual damages • Profits • Statutory damages • Costs and attorney fees • Criminal liability • DMCA civil and criminal liability
- 9. Scenario #1a & b: I want to record my own video and use in a presentation…. can I? I want to digitize and use my parents video of protest march from the 1970s… can I? @ danny.hammontree [CC BY-NC-ND 2.0] http://www.flickr.com/photos/50016673@N00/18023812/
- 10. Scenario #2 How can I use material from an episode of NOVA that I recorded last year in a presentation for class?
- 11. Scenario #3 Can I use parts of a ripped DVD for a project? @john_a_ward [CC BY 2.0] http://www.flickr.com/photos/33624275@N00/313252221/
- 12. Scenario #4 Can I use a bootleg audio track from a Drive By Truckers show for my class? @Trucker _Dan [CC BY-ND 2.0] http://www.flickr.com/photos/60236532@N07/8221650941/