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Copyright Learning Opportunities

The following online and videotaped sessions are available for you to learn more about copyright laws and issues on your own. Please contact Lynn Mack in the Instructional Support Center to find out if Faculty Inservice Credits may be earned on the completion of of any of these sessions.

Online Tutorials

The UT System Crash Course in Copyright
Expertise from the University of Texas' copyright law expert Georgia Harper. Faculty may remember Harper from the PBS teleconference Critical Issues in Distance Education: Copyright Issues Online.

A Visit to Copyright Bay
This site from the University of St. Francis (Joliet, Illinois) attempts to present copyright information to educators in an entertaining format.

Using Copyrighted Materials in U.S. Classrooms
Interactive presentation from Wisc-Online.com targeted at traditional classroom instructors. \

Videotaped Sessions

Critical Issues in Distance Learning: Copyright Issues Online
Through various academic scenarios, learn how the “fair use” provision works in today’s digital environments and how to get information on copyright policy into the hands of those who need it most such as faculty and students.

Features leading copyright experts Georgia Harper (Manager of Intellectual Property Section, Office of General Counsel, University of Texas), Steven J. McDonald (General Counsel, Rhode Island School of Design), and Janis Bruwelheide (Montana State University-Bozeman). This PBS Video and an accompanying participant's packet are available from the Instructional Support Center.

Am I a Crook?: Copyright
Ninety-minute teleconference recorded by Piedmont Technical College on April 2, 1998. This video is available from the PTC Library.


Disclaimer
Please note that the information presented in the Online Copyright Center is for information purposes only. It should not be used as a substitute for actual legal advice.

 

 Last Updated August 17, 2008