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Copyright/Legal Issues and the Web

With technology becoming a larger force in education via distance education, there has been much concern about copyright issues and the Web.  Questions such as, What is intellectual property?   Who owns the course? and Who owns the course material?, have come up time and time again and colleges are still struggling to formulate the answers.  To help you sort through these questions and more, below find key reports, presentations, and links to college copyright and intellectual property policies on the Web.  

Reports and Presentations

• Copyright and Intellectual Property Issues - Guidelines and questions from AACC's Commission on Learning and Communications Technologies November 7, 2001 Meeting.  
  
  
• Preparing to Catch Up With the Digital Age - Presentation at AACC's Commission on Learning and Communications Technologies November 7, 2001 Meeting.  
  
  
• Copyright Considerations in Distance Education and Technology-Mediated Instruction - Kenneth D. Salomon, Dow, Lohnes & Albertson, PLLC, July 5, 2000.  
  
  
• Ownership Issues in Online Use of Institutional Materials - CAUSE/EFFECT Volume 21, Number 2, 1998, pp.19-27. Copyright 1998 EDUCAUSE
  

Copyright Web Resources

• ERIC Clearinghouse for Community Colleges - Educational Technology in the Community College
  
  
• University of Texas -  Copyright and Intellectual Property
  
  
• Stanford University - Copyright and Fair Use  
                  
• GPS Web - Copyright Resources on the Web
  
  
• ITC - Copyright and Fair Use
  
  
• Cornell University - Computer Policy Collection

College Copyright and Intellectual Property Policies

• South Mountain Community College - Copyright Procedures
  
  
• Brevard Community College - Internet Ethics & Acceptable Use Policy
                  
• Northern Virginia Community College - Procedures, Policies, and Plans
  
  
• Walters State Community College - Digital Millennium Copyright Act Web site
                  
• Clovis Community College - Information Technology Acceptable Use Policy
                  
• Dallas County Community College District - Rules for Responsible Computing
                  
• St. Charles Community College - Web Publishing Policies
  
  
• Central Piedmont Community College - Terms of Use
  
  
• Hudson Valley Community College - Policies and Procedures
                  
• Bellevue Community College - Copyright Guidelines
  
  
• Bergen Community College - Acceptable Use of Information Technology Resources
                  
• Tillmook Bay Community College - TBCC Web Publishing
                  
• South Puget Sound Community College - Computer Resources Acceptable Use Policy
                  
• New Hampshire Community Technical College - Copyright Policies and Procedures

If your college has a copyright policy on the Web that you would like included on this list, please contact edelmonte@aacc.nche.edu.