Copyright Resource Guide for Faculty

If the Library has an electronic version of the article, use a permanent link to the article (eg. in your Bright Space and/or your syllabus).

If the article is available legally on the web, link to the article.

If not, you will need to conduct a fair use analysis before scanning or copying the article for your class.

If the Library has an electronic version of the article, use a permanent link to the article (eg. in your Bright Space  and/or your syllabus).

If the article is available legally on the web, link to the article.

If not, you will need to conduct a fair use analysis before scanning or copying the article for your class.

Place print copy of a book on reserve at the library.

If the Library has the ebook, put a permanent link to the ebook in your readings list.

If not, you will need to conduct a fair use analysis before scanning or copying the chapter for your class.

If the Library has the ebook, put a permanent link to the ebook in your Bright Space .

If not, you will need to conduct a fair use analysis before scanning or copying the chapter for your class.

The Classroom exception permits you to show DVDs without limitation, provided that the DVD is legally made and acquired.

If the Library has the DVD or you'd like it purchased for the collection, please complete the Purchase Request form.

Streaming a DVD in an online class will need to be permitted by the TEACH Act or be a fair use.  The TEACH Act specifically forbids copying an entire DVD.  Fair use could conceivably permit it but a very rigorous analysis and justification would need to be provided.

Portions necessary to serve your pedagogical purpose may be streamed to students. You will need to think through your purposes for including the content from the DVD and limit your use to only the necessary portions.  

Contact the Teaching Resources Center for further information and support in using DVD's.

If the Library has the DVD or you'd like it purchased for the collection, please complete the Purchase Request form.

The TEACH Act specifically allows:

"The performance of a nondramatic literary or musical work or reasonable and limited portions of any other work”; the DVD must be a legal copy and the content cannot be mediated educational programming.

...as long as,

“The performance or display is made by, at the direction of, or under the actual supervision of an instructor as an integral part of a class session offered as a regular part of the systematic mediated instructional activities.“

Showing legally acquired images in the classroom is permitted. If you post a slide deck to Bright Space consider removing any copyrighted material unless you have done a fair use analysis and determined that it is likely to be fair.

Consider using the Library's licensed content or Creative Commons licensed content from the web.  

Creative Commons licensed, public domain, or library-licensed material can be used.  

Otherwise, you will need to conduct a fair use analysis.