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C R E D O
Copyright Resources for Education Online
The ILTguide to Copyright

CREDO provides important basic information and useful tips on how to protect your work and comply with the existing rules for the use of others' copyrighted material. In addition, CREDO incorporates multimedia examples offering opportunities to analyze how the computer "plays" upon different types of work, such as digital text and images. These feature make CREDO an important tool for research and discussion regarding the emerging law and ethical rules for digital systems.

CREDO is NOT a source of legal advice; no resource offering generalized information -- as CREDO does -- should be relied upon for legal advice in specific situations. If you are faced with a legal dispute, you are advised to seek counsel tailored to your own situation.

• I. Introduction -- Importance of Copyright Issues for Educators
• II. Copyright Basics
  1. What is Copyright?
  2. Types of work covered by copyright
  3. Different types of intellectual property protection
     • Copyright
     • Software Patents
     • Trademarks
     • Trade Secrets
     • Right of Publicity
  4. Scope of federal and state protection
  5. Q&A on public domain materials (to come)
  6. How to copyright your work
  7. Current copyright issues (to come)
• III. The Educator's Copyright Survival Guide
  1. Investigating the Status of a Work
  2. Clearances and permissions
     • General
     • Essentials of the "fair use" doctrine
     • How to protect one's own copyright
     • General information about school policies relating to copyright (to come)
     • Teachers College and Columbia University copyright policies (to come)
     • Copyright Clearance Center and related agencies (to come)
     • Overview of licensing (to come)
     • Sample licenses (to come)
• IV. Fair Use
• V. Primer on Protecting Different Kinds of Works
• VI. Copyright, the Internet and other Online Services
• VII. Libraries and Copyright
• VIII. Museums and Other Cultural Institutions
• IX. International Issues
• X. Organizations Active in the Copyright Area
• XI. Print Resources on Copyright
• XII. Other Online Information Resources or Services relating to Copyright

We invite your questions and suggestions. These should be addressed by email to copyright@ilt.columbia.edu or contact:

Copyright Project
Institute for Learning Technologies
Teachers College | Columbia University
New York, NY 10027-6625
212 678-4000 / 212 678-4048 (fax)

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