Research Guides: Copyright: Tips for Faculty

Author Rights Video

This brief video, produced by the Institute on Scholarly Communication in association with SPARC (Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition), explains how researchers can maximize exposure and dissemination for their peer-reviewed article manuscripts.

Illustrating Fair Use Principles
This five and a half minute YouTube video was created by librarians at the Ohio State University. It illustrates someone working through the Fair-Use checklist.
Interactive Fair Use Checklist
After watching the YouTube video above - Illustrating Fair Use Principles - use this checklist to walk through the process yourself. Note: Users signature on a disclaimer is required at the start of the exercise.

Guide to Using Copyrighted Media in Your Courses
This very creative and interactive "Copyright Metro" map works to assist faculty with deciding the appropriate copyright guidelines they must follow to use various types of copyright protected media in their classrooms.

Using Copyright Materials in the classroom
From the Berkely Center for Teaching and Learning

Code of Best Practices for Fair Use for Media Literacy in Education

This site is made available by the Center for Media and Social Impact at the School of Communication at American University

Here are some samples:

New from Harvard -

Hansen, D. (2016) Digitizing Orphan Works: Legal strategies to reduce risks for open access to copyrighted orphan works.
Harvard Library. https://dash.harvard.edu/bitstream/handle/1/27840430/OrphanWorksReportFINAL.pdf?sequence=3

Resources for Authors from SPARC
This site explains the rights faculty have as copyright holders and encourages you to retain the rights you need to ensure the broadest practical access to your articles.

What You Can Do

What You Can Do
This chart was created by the Association of Research Libraries, and it provides tips for instructors for who want to legitimtely share videos, articles, images, music and other intellectual property created by others.
Using Copyrighted Works in your Teaching - FAQ
This FAQ was written by Peggy Hoon, Association of Research Libraries.

The Original TEACH ACT Toolkit

Peggy Hoon, UNC, Charotte, has also created this handy guide to complying with the requirements of the TEACH Act to use mulitmedia in your online classes

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