Copyright Guide  Tags: copyright rights information_ethics  

Dean of Students Student Conduct page:

• Student Code of Conduct
• Honor Code
• Student Handbook

Resources for faculty and staff from the Office of the Provost:

• Faculty Handbook
• Information Security Policy Statement
• Intellectual Property Policy
• Policy and Guidelines for the Use of Copyrighted Works

Copyright and Blackboard from Wake Forest University

The TEACH Act

On November 2, 2002, the "Technology, Education and Copyright Harmonization Act" (aka the TEACH Act), was signed into law by President Bush. This act provides relatively specific guidelines as to what uses are and are not fair uses with respect to copyrighted materials and the use of such on-line instructional programs as Blackboard . The TEACH Act is an effort more clearly to define how digital works may be used in online education.

• The institution must be a nonprofit accredited educational institution or a governmental agency

• The institution has a policy on the use of copyrighted materials

• The institution provides accurate information to faculty, students and staff about copyright

• The institution’s systems will not interfere with technological controls within the materials you want to use

• The materials you want to use are specifically for students in your class

• Only those students will have access to the materials

• The materials will be provided at your direction during the relevant lesson

• The materials are directly related and of material assistance to your teaching content

• Your class is part of the offerings of the institution

• You will include a notice that the materials are protected by copyright

• You will use technology that reasonably limits the students' ability to retain or further distribute the materials

• You will make the materials available to the students only for a period of time that is relevant to the context of a class session

• You will store the materials on a secure server and transmit them only as permitted by this law

• You will not make any copies other than the ones you need to make the transmission

• The materials are of the proper type and amount the law authorizes:

• Entire performances of nondramatic literary and musical works
• Reasonable and limited parts of a dramatic literary, musical, or audiovisual works
• Displays of other works, such as images, in amounts similar to typical displays in face-to-face teaching

• The materials are not among those the law specifically excludes from its coverage:
  • Materials specifically marketed for classroom use for digital distance education
  • Copies you know or should know are illegal
  • Textbooks, coursepacks, electronic reserves and similar materials typically purchased individually by the students for independent review outside the classroom or class session

• If you are using an analog original, you checked before digitizing it to be sure:
  • You copied only the amount that you are authorized to transmit
  • There is no digital copy of the work available except with technological protections that prevent your using it for the class in the way the statute authorizes

In general, you may assume that 1) with the provision of this policy, 2) if you use Blackboard in your courses, and 3) if you abide by the other specific provisions that relate to the kinds of materials used, you will meet the general provisions of the TEACH Act as described above.

See also the TEACH Act explained by the UT System