Copyright Information for Instructors and Students
Copyright & Fair Use Analysis-- Basics for Classroom:Determine what copyrights are needed to share specific copyrighted materials in the classroom:
- Fair Use checklist from Columbia University libraries, helps you determine whether your use of a copyrighted material for instructions meets fair use standards. Fair Use permits the use of otherwise protected copyrighted works, under certain circumstances.
- Know What You Can Do chart, to help determine what you can and cannot share with your classes from the Association of Research Libraries.
- Is it protected by copyright? Use this innovative online Digital Copyright Slider rule to help determine whether a work is protected by copyrights http://www.librarycopyright.net/digitalslider/.
- Add Creative Commons License to your own materials/creations for your classes (learning objects).
- When you need permissions from copyright holders and how to contact such holders, from Columbia University.
- Teaching about the ethical uses of others' works: Digital Difference: Responsible Conduct of Research in a Networked World by Richard Fyffe and Scott Walter-- see chapter 1 starting on page 9: "Teaching for Responsibility: Plagiarism and Instruction in the Ethics of Information Use". This is an "open access" publication posted on KU ScholarWorks.
- Additional resources and information from KU's General Counsel: KU policies and guidelines on copyright.
Contact Ada Emmett in the Libraries for additional assistance.
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