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Responsibilities
- Be an accredited nonprofit educational institution
- Have a policy on the use of copyrighted materials
- Provide accurate information to faculty, students, and staff about copyright and promote compliance with copyright laws
- Use only lawfully made and acquired copies
- Use only material that is a nondramatic literary work, OR
- Use only reasonable and limited portions of dramatic literary, musical, or audiovisual works -- in an amount comparable with a typical live classroom session
- Provide these materials at the your direction or supervision
- Use the material as a regular part of systematic, mediated, instuctional activities
- Make certain that the materials are directly related and of material assistance to teaching the class
- Confirm that only students in the class can access the material and that the class is a part of regular institutional offerings
- Provide a notice that the materials are protected by copyright
- Ensure that the materials will be available to the students only for a period of time that is relevant to the context of the class session
- Ascertain that the materials are not among those the law specifically excludes form coverage
- e.g. Materials specifically marketed for classroom use for digital distance education, illegal copies, textbooks, etc.
- Apply technological measures that reasonably prevent retention of the work for longer than the class session
- Apply technological measures that reasonably prevent unauthorized further dissemination of the work by recipients
- Do not engage in conduct that would interfere with measures taken by copyright owners to prevent retention or unauthorized further dissemination (DMCA)
