1. PROPER USAGE OF COPYRIGHTED MATERIALS
WORKS BY LOURDES BELTRAN

2. PUBLIC DOMAIN
• Publicdomain is the state of belonging or being
available to the public as a whole.

3. HOW CAN WE KNOW A WORK IS IN THE PUBLIC DOMAIN?
DOMAIN
• Public domain works are those that were created
before the existence of copyright laws.
• Most works from the government are public
domain like: works done by the federal
government officers or employees as their official
duty (written works, photographs, and other
images).

4. EXAMPLE OF A PUBLIC DOMAIN WORK
• This is an example of a public domain work that was done before the copyright laws.

5. ORPHAN WORKS
• These are works that do not have sufficient information
to identify the owner or the date it was published.

6. EXAMPLE OF AN ORPHAN
WORK
• The Appalachian frontier: America's first surge westward by John Anthony
Caruso

7. USING MATERIALS FROM
THE INTERNET
• Copyright Laws govern materials that are found on the
internet.
• Some common assumptions about internet material
usage are: not everything that is posted on the Internet
is public domain.
• People that copy and distribute others’ copyrighted
works without permission can be liable and can face
fines from $200 to $150,00 for each work.

8. FAIR USE
• Fair
use: is a right granted to the public on all
copyrighted works.
• The role of fair use: Fair use plays a critical role in the
analog world where duplicating technology is
cumbersome and authors make money by controlling
copies. Collective licensing (the Copyright Clearance
Center)

9. FAIR USE OF
• Fairuse is a shadowy territory whose boundaries are
disputed, more so now than ever, since it applies in the
online environment.
• People now license the public to use their works by
attaching Creative Commons licenses to them, making
educational uses much easier without worry about fair
use.

10. FAIR USE EXCEPTIONS
• Copyrighted works may only be used with the
limitation of using 300 words only. If the whole work is
copied, it is not considered fair use.

11. HOW TO GET
PERMISSION ON WORKS
• CCC (works that is part of a book or a journal article)
• VERDI(works from Finland, France, Germany, Ireland,
the Netherlands, and Spain)
• Image archives: MIRA
• Freelance: Igenta

12. THE FOUR FAIR USE
• 1. What is the character of the use?
• 2. What is the nature of the work to be used?
• 3. How much of the work will you use?
• 4. What effect would this use have on the market for
the original or for permissions if the use were
widespread?

13. THE TEACH ACT
• Copyright law that provides educators with a separate
set of rights in addition to fair use, to display (show)
and perform (show or play) others’ works in the
classroom.
• TEACH Act become law in late 2002.

14. RESOURCES
• http://copyright.lib.utexas.edu/useofweb.html
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_domain
• New Oxford American Dictionary
• http://www.wikihow.com/Avoid-Copyright-Infringement
• http://www.publicdomainsherpa.com/us-government-works.html
• http://www.lib.purdue.edu/uco/CopyrightBasics/penalties.html
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fair_use