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>Date: Wed, 23 Feb 2005 11:42:25 -0500
>From: Judy Shoaf <[log in to unmask]>
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>Subject: Re: #7812 Current state of copyright
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The TEACH act, which addresses distance education in particular, but
might have repercussions for any kind of digitally "mediated
instructional activities", requires that institutions formulate policies
about what is allowable. See below, from
http://www.copyright.iupui.edu/teach_summary.htm --Judy Shoaf
New Copyright Law for Distance Education:
The Meaning and Importance of the TEACH Act
Original: September 30, 2002
Revision: November 10, 2003
Prepared by: Kenneth D. Crews, Professor of Law
Director, Copyright Management Center
Indiana University School of Law-Indianapolis
Email: kcrews @ iupui.edu
Website: www.copyright.iupui.edu
Duties of Institutional Policymakers
2. Copyright policy. The educational institution must "institute
policies regarding copyright," although the language does not detail the
content of those policies. The implication from the context of the
statute, and from the next requirement about "copyright information,"
suggests that the policies would specify the standards educators and
others will follow when incorporating copyrighted works into distance
education. For most educational institutions, policy development is a
complicated process, involving lengthy deliberations and multiple levels
of review and approval. Such formal policymaking might be preferable,
but informal procedural standards that effectively guide relevant
activities may well satisfy the statutory requirement. In any event,
proper authorities within the educational institution need to take
deliberate and concerted action.
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