U.S. Copyright Law protects the rights of content creators in their creative works while encouraging the creation and propagation of new works. Thus the law grants copyright holders exclusive rights to control the use of their work while providing exceptions to permit certain use of copyrighted works for private use, in-classroom use, fair use, and the TEACH Act that are vital to teaching, learning, and research. Copyright infringement occurs when uses of copyrighted content exceed such exceptions or permissions resulting in lawsuits, money damages, and in some cases, criminal prosecution with jail time. The San Mateo Community College District acknowledges and encourages the appropriate use (i.e., reproduction, distribution, performance, and display) of copyrighted works for teaching and research purposes within the framework of the copyright law. Faculty members are legally responsible for adhering to the provisions of the U.S. Copyright Law. This guide provides information on the copyright law, and the doctrines and acts associated with the law when seeking to use third-party copyrighted content in teaching. The District makes every effort to assure the accuracy of this information but does not offer it as counsel or legal advice.
Type of Material:
Reference Material
Recommended Uses:
Use in Faculty Development training
Use as reference when preparing coursework
Use for different college courses or training that need to address intellectual property and attribution.
Use when writing articles
Technical Requirements:
Web browser,
Power Point software,
PDF viewer
Identify Major Learning Goals:
Learn about copyright issues in education.
Obtain information on the copyright law
Understandthe doctrines and acts associated with the law when seeking to use third-party copyrighted content in teaching.
Target Student Population:
College Upper Division, Graduate School, Professional classes
Professors who teach about copyright laws
Students who write for a course
Prerequisite Knowledge or Skills:
None
Content Quality
Rating:
Strengths:
Thorough and clear
Has videos that demonstrate points
Good job of explaining copyright law for a novice audience
Seems extrmely comprehensive.
Concerns:
There are no learning outcomes specified in the libguide, through it is atypical to see learing outcomes listed in a libguide.
While there is a bibliography, there are no in-text citations or footnotes to connect basic facts back to their sources.
Citation styles remains one area that seems logically connected, though slightly tangential to copyright. It would be good in the student work section to link to libguides for various citations.
It might be good to include information about the Sunny Bono Act, case law around copyright (like the Eldred case), and some of the academic discussions about the purpose of copyright.
The guide could use some discussion of AI and copyright, especially some of the questions that remain unanswered.
Potential Effectiveness as a Teaching Tool
Rating:
Strengths:
The libgide progressively shifts in complexity through the topic on each page and moves from less complicated to more complicated topics through the navigation bar.
It feels easy enough to randomy find topics and other information without having to read the whole thing.
This could easily fit into a class covering different elements of copyright as a basic concept.
There are great handouts at the end of the libguide that faculty and trainers might draw upon.
The user will read about the various aspects of copyright in education: - Fair use, copyright content guidelines, online teaching, Copyright for Libraries,Permissions andTools, Handouts andDownloadable, and source and Further reading.
Concerns:
There are no learning objectives listed in the libguide, but it seems atypical to list learning objectives in a libguide.
The libguide never spells out prerequisite knowledge or specific audience, though the latter might be deduced from looking at the navigation bar.
It would be great to have an introductory paragraph that spelled out and made explicit the intended audience.
The handouts in the last section lack any licensing information. One lacks author information entirely. It would be great if both were licensed with CC licenses.
Ease of Use for Both Students and Faculty
Rating:
Strengths:
It's easy to navigate
Remains property divided into pages and subpages that are easy to follow in the navigation menu
There is text, video, and slide show.
The videos feature everyday people with common questions.
Concerns:
The libguide would be easier to navigate if all the external links had their target set for a new page so that the libguide remained open while users looked at these external resources.
There are a handful of links that take users to dead web sites.
On https://guides.skylinecollege.edu/copyright/display page, the Copyright Basics: The TEACH Act. loads a page that says it is under construction.
On https://guides.skylinecollege.edu/copyright/onlineuse page, the Copyright Basics: The TEACH Act link loads a page that says it is under construction.
On https://guides.skylinecollege.edu/copyright/onlineuse page, the Using Content:Course Management System link loads a page that says it is under construction.
On https://guides.skylinecollege.edu/copyright/studentassignments page, theOther Campus Copyright Issues link loads a page that says it is under construction.
On https://guides.skylinecollege.edu/copyright/permissions page, thePublic Domain Slider link loads a page that says the page has been retired.
On https://guides.skylinecollege.edu/copyright/permissions page, theSection 108 Spinner link loads a page that says the page has been retired.
On https://guides.skylinecollege.edu/copyright/permissions page, theFair Use Evaluator link loads a page that says the page has been retired.
On https://guides.skylinecollege.edu/copyright/permissions page, thethe Exceptions for Instructors eTool link loads a page that says the page has been retired.
Creative Commons:
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