Advance Organizer: Copyright and other Legal Issues in Distance Education

Print Copyright, Digital Copyright, Intellectual Property, Conclusion

What is print copyright?
· Definition
· Public Domain
· Enforcement

Why we need to examine this?
· Original thinking
· Plagiarizing
· Educate the users

What are copyright materials?
· Types of copyright material

How do we obtain permission?
· Copyright collectives
· Publishers
· Inherited rights

What is the submission process?
· Registration
· Cost
· Time period

What is digital copyright?
· Definition

How do we obtaining permission?
· Process

What are some of the difficulties encountered?
· Difficulties in the process
· Moral rights infringement
· Amendments to the Copyright Act - the term "publication"

How do we protect material posted digitally?
· Filling a Copyright application
· Technological Enforcement Measures

Why we need to examine this?
· Commercialization
· Advancement in technology
· Risk of loss of control

Historical Intellectual Property Process
· Publishers
· Libraries
· Registration

Who Owns Online Courses and Materials
· Faculty issues
· Employer Law
· Academic Freedom

Current IP Process
· Author's Rights
· Publisher's Rights
· Assignment of Rights
· Enforcement

Policies across Canada
· Secondary Institutions
· Post Secondary Institutions

International Intellectual Property Issues
· United States
· European Union

Intellectual Property Best Practices
· Three key points on IP

Wrap Up
· Questions
· Goodnight

Credits

Print Copyright

· copyright collective society - http://www.cb-cda.gc.ca/societies/index-e.html
· copyright matters for teachers - http://www.cmec.ca/else/copyright/matters/indexe.stm
· guide to copyright - http://strategis.ic.gc.ca/sc_mrksv/cipo/cp/copy_gd_main-e.html
· access copyright - http://www.accesscopyright.ca/home.asp

Digital Copyright

· Canadian copyright and the Internet - http://www.ampksoft.ca/compoly.htm
· Copyright reform process - http://strategis.ic.gc.ca/SSG/rp00348e.html
· Copyright protection for computer programs - http://strategis.ic.gc.ca/sc_mrksv/cipo/cp/cp_circ_1-e.html
· Guide on Copyright clearance for media products - http://www.pch.gc.ca/progs/ac-ca/pubs/ic-ci/pubs/copymm_e.htm

Intellectual Property

· General IP issues - http://citd.scar.utoronto.ca/copyright
· Faculty Content Ownership - http://www.educause.edu/issues/faculty.html
· Enforcement and Registration - http://cipo.gc.ca