Fair Use, Teach Act, and Accessibility Links

Fair Use:

Fair use and copyright definitions and policies (great site for defining aspects of fair use). Also offers a chart of what is legally accepted in fair use and restrictions in teaching.
http://home.earthlink.net/~cnew/research.htm

University of Texas systems copyright policy
http://www.utsystem.edu/OGC/intellectualproperty/copypol.htm

University of Texas systems copyright policy article that focuses on university copy centers
http://copyright.lib.utexas.edu/mono1.html

North Carolina State University
http://www.ncsu.edu/copyright/defenses.php
http://www.provost.ncsu.edu/copyright/resources/tutorials/FairUseandPermission.php

Stanford University fair use and copyright
http://fairuse.stanford.edu/Copyright_and_Fair_Use_Overview/chapter9/index.html

Indiana University Bloomington policy for fair use on education and research
http://www.indiana.edu/~bfc/docs/policies/fairUsePolicy.pdf

University at Buffalo: The State University of New York fair use policy
http://library.buffalo.edu/libraries/aboutus/policies-use/copyright.php

Winthrop University (in South Carolina) fair use
http://www2.winthrop.edu/copyright/copyfair.htm

Example of checklist for conducting a fair use analysis (taken from Cornell University)
http://www.copyright.cornell.edu/policies/docs/Fair_Use_Checklist.pdf

Brown University fair use policies for various different types of sources (links on left hand side of page in red)
http://www.brown.edu/Administration/Copyright/

University of California fair use policy
http://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/copyright/fairuse.html

Tufts University policy on fair use
https://wikis.uit.tufts.edu/confluence/display/ScholarlyCommunications/Tufts+University+Policy+on+Fair+Use+of+Copyrighted+Materials

University of Missouri fair use and copyright policies (also focuses specifically on photo fair use too)
http://extension.missouri.edu/staff/marketing/copyright.html

University of Tennessee fair use policy
http://www.lib.utk.edu/copyright/policy.html

TEACH Act:

Description of the TEACH Act (American Library Association)
http://www.ala.org/ala/issuesadvocacy/copyright/teachact/index.cfm

Guide to the TEACH Act for the University System of Georgia (representing numerous Georgia Universities). There is also a link on the left that has information on copyright and fair use for the University System of Georgia as well.
http://www.usg.edu/legal/teach_act/

TEACH Act for University of Texas
http://www.utsystem.edu/ogc/intellectualproperty/teachact.htm

University of Connecticut TEACH Act policy (also information on fair use for this university as well)
http://www.lib.uconn.edu/copyright/teachAct.html

University of Alaska TEACH Act policy
http://hosting.uaa.alaska.edu/designteam/teach_act/teach_act.html

Colorado State University TEACH Act policy
http://tilt.colostate.edu/guides/tilt_copyright/exemption_distance.cfm

George Mason University policy on TEACH Act and fair use
http://universitypolicy.gmu.edu/1104gen.html

Accessibility in ADA Section 508:

Ohio State University web accessibility policy regarding ADA section 508
http://ada.osu.edu/resources/WebPolicies.htm

University of Wisconsin-Madison policy on Web accessibility and section 508
http://www.wisc.edu/policy/wwwap.php

Texas A&M web accessibility policies (offers links to the university's policies as well as federal laws and information on section 508)
http://webaccess.tamu.edu/policies.php

University of Utah section 508 accessibility standards
http://ucomm.utah.edu/webtemplates/section508.html

Thanks to Brent Vance for compiling the list above.

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Analysts at Garner predict that mobile technologies will browser-equipped phones will exceed 1.83 billion, compared with 1.78 billion PCs worldwide by 2013. They expect PCs to remain the most popular browsing device until 2015. Assuming this is very possible, the implication for eLearning is that what you do should be accessible to the small screen.

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Copyright Info

Copyright crash course (Georgia Harper, UT atty.)

Intellectual property page

(Thanks to Charlie Guest for these)

Code of Best Practices in Fair Use

Identifying and applying best practices to interpret and apply fair under United States copyright law is an ambiguous task. Nowhere is this more difficult than in the Open Courseware movement in which some leading higher education institutions publish academic course content openly on the Internet for free. A recent guide that simplifies the legalities of using copyrighted materials in open courseware, Code of Best Practices in Fair Use for OpenCourseWare, can serve as a useful tool for educators and administrators struggling with situations involving fair use. It was developed by experts in media and fair use from Johns Hopkins, American University, MIT, Tufts University, University of Michigan, University of Notre Dame, and Yale University. It's available as a free download from the Center of Social Media at American U.