Legality Issues | Origin: EL114
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Respecting Copyrights and Leveraging Available Resources --> Legality Issues
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Instructors must make sure they staying up to date with new laws and/or rules when it comes to technology today.
There is a difference between non-profit and for-profit institutions in what the law allows.
I see this being more of an issue now that we have Chat GPT and other AI avenues that students can use. I wonder how copyright fits into AI information.
While the legal guidelines covering copyrights are slow to keep up with changes and technologies, instructors must be cognizant of the potential copyright violations when introducing materials in their classroom. There are many sources of information to help with this and that can support developing and updating an institution's copyright policies.
I never realized the Fair Use Act, which I think many instructors rely upon to help them know what and how much information they can use from a source, doesn't apply at all to for profit institutions.
Copyright law period, utilizing articles more than once would require permission although the article is posted online.
I think a course on 'copyright laws' should be required for each new instructor. I rarely hear coworkers discussing this issue and it's because there is so little understanding if it.
Understanding fair use and copyright laws is so important and this is an area that I am not clear on. This lesson clarifies and answers many of my questions.
Legally speaking, understanding fair use and copyright laws can help prevent any unfortunate consequences. I wouldn't want my work taken and used without permission and I wouldn't do that to others.
Knowing about copyright laws can prevent a lot of costly legal ramifications.
Definitely feel like I understand Fair Use now, but still hoping to learn more about obtaining permission or using excerpts and the correct way to cite and give credit to the original author.
It seems with even the best of intentions, copyright law is so complex that it is very easy to violate, even with the most moral of intentions. The best best may be to always link to a location where the copyright holder has posted the work, or to ask permission through copyrightl.com. Particularly, I don't think most instructors know how limited "Fair Use" is or that they can only use something one time in one class, not in repeated courses, and that they may only use a small percentage of the work.
Great information! I will review my institution's policy on copywritten information and how faculty are to proceed in using intellectual property in the classroom.
This content scares me -- I've attended copyright training in the past, but I certainly could use a refresher in what I can and cannot do. I also think that leaving for-profit institutions out in the cold makes it unnecessarily difficult for instructors -- many of whom work for both profit and non-profit schools.
One thing that I learned was that when the U.S. Copyright Act of 1976, Section 107, was legislated, "It is known as the fair use section, and educators since then have been using it as a means to obtain and use copyrighted materials."
Of course instructors have to consider the rights of fair use.
Fair use and TEACH act are for non-profit institutions only.
In this module I could review history of copyright purpose and evoluton trough time.
We as instructors find ourselves faced with the need to not merely find material that we can use with our students, but also to ensure that we do so in a manner that honors intellectual property rights.
In this module, I have learned about vital source of information on U.S. copyright concerns is the Copyright Clearance Center.
