Kenny Crews--Crash Course in Copyright
Director, Copyright Advisory Office
Columbia University
Move from basics to applications at more complex and sophisticated levels.
Here's more:
1. Fundamentals--there are two worlds of copyright: Fair Use (and other rights of use) and Ownership of Copyrights
1.1 Fair Use and other rights allow use of copyrighted materials; thus opportunity
2. Need to Know about Copyright--
2.1 Once a work is "fixed" in a tangible medium, like writing, or PPT slides, copyright is AUTOMATIC
2.2 Rights of Copyright Owners (mainly economic rights)
-- Reproduction in Copies
-- Distribution of COpies to the Public
-- Derivative Works
-- Public Display
-- Public Performance
-- and others, like "moral rights" of which we'll say little today
2.3 Have to know about copyright--Long Term of Protection
-- Life of Author, plus 70 years
-- Older Works, Up to 95 years
-- WMFH, 95/120 years
-- keep your copyright records "the rest of your life, plus 70 years" (like your publication contracts)
2.4 Absolutely to know about copyright--Limitations on Rights of Owners
-- Section 107-110 (1)(2), and 120, 122
-- 107 = Fair User; 108 = Library Copying; 109 = First Sale; 110(1) = Classroom Use;
110(2) = Distance Learning; 120 = Architectural Works; 122 = Special Formats
2.5 What is Fair User?
-- Four Factors: Purpose of your use of it; Nature of the Work; Amount Used; Effect on the Market
for the work
2.6 Something is happening...fading of guidelines; transformative uses (you change the form of the work); adaptation of new technologies; flexibility of the law
3.0 The latest case: Turnitin.com: A Case in Student Papers run through a Computer Program to check for plagiarism ("Check for Cheaters")
3.1 Purpose: Transformative
3.2 Nature: Protects Creativity!
3.3 Amount: All is Necessary
3.4 Effect: No Harm to Sales of the Papers
4.0 Library Copying: Section 108
4.1 Preservation and Replacement
4.2 Copies for Research and Study
4.3 Copies for ILL (InterLibrary Loan)
4.4 Notices on copiers; "Last 20 Years"
4.5 Examples: Copies for Research
-- Articles or other short works
-- copy becomes property of user
-- Purpose for private study, and so on
-- Library posts notices
5.0 Framework for action
Multiple options of use (public domain; permission; linking on Internet, which almost never brings copyright action)
Creative solutions
"Stay Flexible"
6.0 website
www.copyright.columbia.edu