Copyright Information

You may read live online (any format) for educational purposes

You may post a video of that reading online, behind a class management system like Schoology. The video may stay up behind the class management system for as long as needed to serve the educational purpose and the needs of your students.

YouTube:  Limit access to the video to students enrolled in the course; make sure that the video content serves a pedagogical purpose

Video Streaming services:  Streaming services are intended for personal use. Services like Netflix, Amazon Prime, Hulu, etc. are blocked by our network and will not be unblocked for classroom streaming.

Showing CDs:  It is a violation of copyright law to show videos to a group (including a class) without having prior performance permissions.  Go to Swank Licensing for more information. 

Copyright: an owner’s legal right to reproduce, display, transmit, perform, and modify a work. Copyright is also the right to publicly perform a sound recording by digital transmission.  A work is automatically copyrighted at the moment of creation.

Fair Use: copyright law which allows individuals to make legal use of copyrighted materials without payment or permission under some circumstances, to include the development of innovation and spread of knowledge (e.g., teaching and learning, news reporting, or criticism and commentary.

Public Domain: works are either works whose copyright protection has expired (older works) OR works that are free to use without consideration of copyright, such as federal government works.

Computer Copyright Law is very specific: One program for one computer. You may not load 1 program onto 2 computers, even if you own both.