• Introduction
• Video 1
• Module1
  • Copyright basics &
    Requesting Information
• Video 2
• Module 2
  Fair Use and Use Exemptions
  • A. Fair Use
  • Checklist for Fair Use
  • B. U.S. Copyright Law Section 108
  • C. U.S. Copyright Law Section 110
  • Face-to-Face Classroom Setting
  • Institution Requirements:
  • Information Technology Personnel Requirements:
  • Summary of this Module
  • Quiz
• Video 3
• Module 3
  • Case Studies
    & Scenarios
• Final Game
• Feedback Survey

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Institution Requirements:

• Be an accredited nonprofit educational institution
• Institute copyright policies
• Provide accurate copyright information and promote copyright compliance
• Provide notice to students that course materials may be protected by copyright
• Content made available only to students officially enrolled in the course

Instructor Requirements:

• Avoid use of commercial works that are sold or licensed for digital distance education
• Avoid use of works you have reason to believe were not lawfully obtained
• Digital transmission of work is one of the following:
  • Performance of a non-dramatic literary work; or
  • Performance of a non-dramatic musical work; or
  • Performance of any other work, including dramatic works and audiovisual works, but only in "reasonable and limited portions"; or
  • Display of any work in an amount comparable to that which is typically displayed in the course of a live classroom session.
• Avoid the use of textbooks, course packs, or other materials in any media which are typically purchased or acquired by students for their independent use and retention.
• The performance or display is both:
  • Made by, at the direction of, or under the actual supervision of an instructor as an integral part of a class session offered as a regular part of the systematic, mediated instructional activities of the educational institution; and
  • Directly related and of material assistance to the teaching content of the transmission.
• If the work to be used has to be converted from print or another analog version to digital format, then both:
  • The amount of the work converted is no greater than the amount that can lawfully be used for the course; and
  • There is no digital version of the work available to the institution or the digital version available to the institution has technological protection that prevents its use for the course.