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Copyright and CDH Policy on Posting Materials to UCLA Course Sites:

Please note that with regard to copyright, for all methods of posting materials we adhere to the following policy:

CDH does not undertake an analysis of whether requested postings are consistent with copyright laws, as the service is provided solely as a mechanism to assist in managing class websites. The obligation to ensure that postings are consistent with copyright law, because the materials are in the public domain, the excerpts are consistent with fair use, or permission has been obtained from the copyright holder, lies solely with the instructor.

Faculty are advised to consult the relevant policies and resources for information on copyright and to be familiar with provision of the Faculty Code of Conduct for violations of University policy. Should CDH receive notice of a copyright infringement claim, we will immediately remove the allegedly offending material and notify the requesting faculty member.

I. General copyright and intellectual property guidelines
II. Special considerations for images
III. If your article, audio, image, or video files fall outside of the public domain
IV. eReserves, Instructional Media Library, Music Library (obtains copyright permission for you)
V. "Face to Face" fair use
VI. Resources for further information

I. General copyright and intellectual property guidelines:

1. When posting materials on your ecampus course website, please take copyright and intellectual property laws into consideration. This policy applies to:
* all articles, book chapters, and other text-based documents
* all images (photographs, paintings, drawings)
* all audio (music, voice)
* all cinema (video, DVD)

2. Please note that the password protection conferred by ecampus does not automatically guarantee that you are complying with fair use.

3. Free materials are available in the public domain.

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II. Special considerations for images:

1. Low resolution images and copyright:

• Princeton University's FAQ - What do I need to consider when using images on websites and in other publications
• University of California, Irvine - Rules of Thumb for Images

2.Fair use websites:
*It is best to begin with educational websites which contain copyright free images. You can find a number of them located at: http://www.arts.uci.edu/vrc/page12a.htm#FairUse.

*Some fair use websites are also located here: http://www.humnet.ucla.edu/itc/resources/findingimages/

*The Wikimedia commons, a site filled with public domain images, is also useful:
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page

*The article "Digital Images and Fair Use Web Sites" by Maryly Snow, Librarian, Architecture Slide Library, UCB reviews issues related to using images from websites which grant fair use.

3. If you obtain your images through Google searches please note that Google does not guarantee copyright status: http://www.google.com/help/faq_images.html#copyright


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*Avoid linking to websites which have not obtained permission to use the material since this could be considered a violation of copyright.
*If a site is compliant with copyright you may create a link to it as long as you note the source of the link on your own site.
* Some websites ask that you contact them as well before linking, so check first for this requirement before creating a link.

For more information, please click on the following:

• American Law Division - Report for Congress: Fair Use on the Internet (2002)

2. Creating a list of links (contact your ITC)

*Remind your students to use one of these two methods when accessing documents from home:
1. VPN (VIrtual Private Networking)
2.Bruin OnLine Proxy Server

List of sources for online articles and books to link to your ecampus site :
Google Scholar: http://scholar.google.com/
Google Books: http://books.google.com
JSTOR: http://www.jstor.org
UCLA Library website: http://www2.library.ucla.edu/ - under SEARCH and FIND, you will find a number of options. Don't forget that the UCLA catalog, WorldCat and other databases often link to online versions of an article.

List of sources for online images to link to your ecampus site:
Google Images: http://images.google.com
Artstor: http://www.humnet.ucla.edu/itc/resources/artstor/
IT Resources site: http://www.humnet.ucla.edu/itc/resources/findingimages/


B. Post to your ecampus site:

Click here for copyright guidelines from the UC Copyright Office (text below is from this link):

1. Text/Illustration Single Copying:

* A chapter from a book
* An article from a periodical or newspaper
* A short story, short essay or short poem, whether or not from a collective work
* A chart, graph, diagram, drawing, cartoon or picture from a book, periodical, or newspaper.

2. Text/Illustration Multiple Copying:

* Poetry: (a) A complete poem if less than 250 words and if printed on not more than two pages or, (b) from a longer poem, an excerpt of not more than 250 words
* Prose: (a) Either a complete article, story or essay of less than 2,500 words, or (b) an excerpt from any prose work of not more than 1,000 words or 10% of the work, whichever is less, but in any event a minimum of 500 words
* Illustration: one chart, graph, diagram, drawing, cartoon or picture per book or per periodical issue

3. Exceptions to the above (check UC Copyright link for more details):

* Copying should not replace "anthologies, compilations or collective work"
* Copying should not be of "consumable" documents (" workbooks, exercises, standardized tests and test booklets")
* Copying should not "substitute for the purchase of books, publishers' reprints or periodicals"

4. Audio, DVD, and Video use:

* Audio, video, and DVD guidelines from the University of Texas
* U.S. Copyright Office: Anticircumvention Rulemaking (concerning DVD clips)

C. Additional Resources for determining fair use:

• Checklist for Fair Use (from Indiana Unversity) (also available in PDF)
• Duke Law School's Fair Use Comic Book
• A Good Test of the "Four Factors" (from University of Texas)
  

• Obtaining Permission: Advice from UC Copyright Website
• Copyright Clearance Center
  

V. "Face to Face" fair use (an alternative method for showing DVDs/videos to your class):

Copyrighted DVDs or videos which have been rented or bought may be shown "face to face" (i.e. not online) in educational environments by a teacher to his/her students as part of a class without obtaining permission.

According to Section 110 of the Copyright Act of 1976, rental or purchased DVDs or videos may be shown if they comply with the following:

"performance or display of a work by instructors or pupils in the course of face-to-face teaching activities of a nonprofit educational institution, in a classroom or similar place devoted to instruction, unless, in the case of a motion picture or other audiovisual work, the performance, or the display of individual images, is given by means of a copy that was not lawfully made under this title, and that the person responsible for the performance knew or had reason to believe was not lawfully made."

For more information, please click on the following links:

• Mount Holyoke College (See "FAQ" and "Video Copyright Information")
• Princeton University (See The Face-To-Face and Distance Education Exemptions)
• University of California, Berkeley (See "Question 3")

Please note that this act does not apply to videos or DVDs which have been copied without permission.

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VI. Resources for further information:

1. U.S. Library of Congress, Office of Copyright

2. University of California policies and guidelines:

• UC Policy on the Reproduction of Copyrighted Materials for Teaching and Research
• UCLA Library Copyright Policy
• Digital Millennium Copyright Act at UCLA
• UCLA Intellectual Property Symposium for Faculty

3. Additional College and University Copyright Guidelines:

• Amherst College - (Ten Steps to Understanding Copyright)
• American Law Division- Report for Congress: Fair Use on the Internet (2002)
• Cornell University - (Copyright Information Center)
• Mount Holyoke College - (Copyright Guidelines, LITS)
• Princeton University - (Copyright FAQ)
  
• Stanford University - (Copyright and Fair Use)
• University of California, Berkeley- (Frequently Asked Film and Video Copyright Questions)
  
• University of California, Irvine - (Copyright Guidelines)
  

4. Additional Copyright Guidelines:

• Know Your Copy Rights - (Uses in the Online Classroom)
  
  

Last updated by SL, June 22, 2007

Researched, developed, revised, and maintained by Sue Lewak 2005-2007.
Originally created by Heather Wozniak 2004-2005.