Project ECS@ESC: Home: Copyright for Content Creators

Having reviewed what copyright is, and is not, why is uploading a file to our libguide different than linking to a document on another webpage or database?  

Guidelines are guiding suggestions - sometimes there is a clear cut copyright violation, but copyright infringement can only be determined in a court of law definitively.  We want to avoid getting to that point and the district is responsible if we violate copyright law.

Do always:

Provide attribution (credit) for everything

Possible Responses to Copyright Infringement

-DMCA Takedown Notice to Springshare

-Request to take down materials to us

-Lawsuit

-Pay more in settling a claim of infringement rather than preventing it

-Bad modeling of respecting copyright for students.

We will distribute a Carrie Russell article to one of the groups to review Fair Use

We almost all have experience from last year with searching for resources for Project ECS.  What are the factors that make Project ECS different if we wanted to give away this article, than if you just distributed it to a class in your building?  

Discuss database articles from NOVELNY, images pulled from the freeweb, videos pulled from the web, ebooks bought from a publisher, ebooks published freely online.  

We will use the Fair Use checklist from https://copyright.columbia.edu/content/dam/copyright/Precedent%20Docs/fairusechecklist.pdf

to analyze Fair Uses for a variety of sources (but most notably - articles we want to use in our units).

We will set up stations so you can share out the appropriate copyright sheet to yourself - these will be used to be sure we secure copyright where needed and we will share out as a group how this is filled out.

The PUBLISHER must be the listed company below - for instance - for GVRL (Gale Virtual Reference Library), they contract things from other companies like ABC-CLIO but they can't negotiate separate terms that we need for citywide access on behalf of ABC-Clio, so, what we purchase from them must be a GALE imprint like Greenwood for GVRL even though more things show up in their catalog.

Always limit by publisher where possible, and sometimes these publishers have multiple imprints - like Infobase owns the following ebooks all of which are considered Infobase because they are subsets of that company.  

Confused? Don't be - just use the links, become familiar with the publishers and their imprints, and ask lots of questions!