Training Your Faculty about Copyright When the Lawyer Isn't Looking

Autor/in	Tobin, Thomas J.
Titel	Training Your Faculty about Copyright When the Lawyer Isn't Looking
Quelle	In: Online Journal of Distance Learning Administration, 17 (2014) 2 PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1556-3847
Schlagwörter	College Administration; College Faculty; Copyrights; Legal Responsibility; Plagiarism; Teacher Competencies; Ownership; Intellectual Property; Administrator Role; School Policy; Multimedia Instruction; Internet + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? College administrators; Hochschulverwaltung; Fakultät; Strafmündigkeit; Plagiat; Lehrkunst; Eigentum; Geistiges Eigentum; Schulpolitik; Multimediales Lernen
Abstract	Administrators in higher-education institutions are faced with an often-conflicting landscape of laws, court cases, adopted practices, rules of thumb, and folk wisdom related to copyright concerns on their campuses. Ask any ten faculty member and receive ten different responses about what constitutes fair use, who owns content created for courses, and what intellectual-property rights apply to faculty members and the institution. Part of the challenge for higher-education administrators is that a deep understanding of copyright requires much more study and training than most faculty members are able to spare beyond their subject areas. Based on the questions the author has received at many of his copyright workshops and lectures since 2000, faculty members are often hungry for clear and simple guidance in three key areas: (1) use of copyrighted materials for teaching purposes; (2) ownership of content created by faculty members; and (3) the rights of individuals and institutions under various intellectual-property ownership-agreement structures. This article will guide higher-education administrators in adopting policies and practices for their campuses that are easy to remember and apply, and that: (1) provide rule-of-thumb ways to define fair use of copyrighted content; (2) highlight alternative means of providing access to copyrighted content; and (3) suggest the most common models of ownership and rights associated with intellectual property and multimedia content created by faculty members. (ERIC).
Anmerkungen	State University of West Georgia. 1601 Maple Street, Honors House, Carrollton, GA 30118. Tel: 678-839-5489; Fax: 678-839-0636; e-mail: distance@westga.edu; Web site: http://www.westga.edu/~distance/ojdla
Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2017/4/10