Copyright Principles in Action

TABLE OF CONTENTS

I. Preview of the Issues of Concern

A. Ownership of Intellectual Property (IP)

1. Who is an author

2. Work for hire

a) The OARs

b) The IMDs

3. Contractual assignment of rights

4. Joint efforts

5. Royalty sharing

6. Commercialization/publishing

7. Summary and where to go next

B. The use (fair and otherwise) of someone else's IP

1. Scenarios of likely use by academics

2. Licensed or permitted use

3. Fair use preview

4. Possession and transfer of the work itself

5. Summary and where to go next

II. Stepping through ownership issues

A. Software developed while teaching a course

1. Student work, faculty inspiration and oversight

2. Algorithms

3. Programs written by more than one student; user manuals

4. Upgraded versions with different authors

5. Assignment for exploitation of the work

B. Faculty developed software

C. Lecture Notes

D. Textbooks, workbooks, "nutshells', research reports, scholarly articles

E. Music

F. Instructional Web pages

G. Scholarly web pages and articles in electronic journals

H. Multimedia Products

I. Videos of class lecture

III. General Concepts of Copyright Law

A. Coverage and scope of rights

B. Limitations on rights

1. Fair Use

2. Statutory exceptions to the author's control

C. Duration of Rights

D. Infringement

E. Remedies

F. Eleventh Amendment

IV. Course Packs and Classroom Materials

A. Fair Use and the court decisions

B. "Safe Harbor" Guidelines

V. Library Reserves

VI. Professor's Web Pages or Bulletin Boards

A. Web Pages

B. Bulletin Boards

C. Digital Millennium Copyright Act

VII. Student Web Pages (especially bootleg music and software)

VIII. Distance Education

IX. Multi-media materials

X. Digitized Images

XI. Bootleg software

XII. Videotaping Broadcasts

A. Fair Use

B. Face-to-face instruction

C. The Kastenmier Guidelines

XIII. Use of Copyrighted Music

XIV. Special Problems

A. Out-of-print books

B. Original work in public domain but found in copyrighted anthology or derivative work

C. Unpublished Works

D. Visual Artists' Rights Act

E. Architectural Works

F. Databases

G. Copyright Management Information

 

Appendix A - Hypothetical cases

Appendix B - Frequently Asked Questions

Appendix C - Critical Statutory Sections

Appendix D - OUS Internal Management Directives, and Oregon (UO) AdministrativeRules

Appendix E - "Guidance for Determining Royalty Sharing…"

Appendix F - American Publishers Association (Safe Harbor) Guidelines

Appendix G - Selected Electronic Bulletin Board Copyright Cases

Appendix H - Selected Software Copyright Cases

Appendix I - Flow chart of IP ownership decision tree

Appendix J - A few outside sources and websites

Topical Index