Fair Use Sharing and Distribution of Materials
You can apply Fair Use to your distribution of copyrighted works if you:
- Restrict access to enrolled students only.
- Limit the portion of copyrighted materials distributed (one article from a journal, a chapter of a book, a small portion of the images in a text, etc.).
- Limit the time period of use (a semester or a year – the length of the course).
- Include a notice such as "This {CD-ROM, PowerPoint presentation, DVD, Computer module or other media] may include copyrighted materials provided for the personal educational use of enrolled students and may not be further redistributed." Inform your students.
- Attribute the work to the copyright holder for every copyright item you use (Copyright notice: Copyright or ©, year of publication, name of copyright holder) whenever possible.
- No copying of licensed software is permitted, except for shareware, freeware and public domain software.
In a classroom setting, you can make one copy for each of your students and handout the materials provided you charge the students no more than the cost of the duplication.
In WebCT/Blackboard, you can make the limited portions of copyrighted materials available to distance education students for downloading on a limited time basis as follows:
- The amount of copyrighted materials that you provide to students should not exceed the amount that you would distribute in the classroom.
- Materials are only available during the time they are relevant in the course and removed after that.
- Materials areno longer available after the class is completed.
- Articles in journals licensed by UAMS may be linked to as long as UAMS continues to license the materials.
- Articles in journals that are NOT licensed by UAMS and that are received via Interlibrary Loan may be used once and then permission is needed.
You will need to get permission to distribute the same materials in the same course in subsequent semesters.
You may allow your students to view materials as they do in the classroom for subsequent semesters if you block the students' ability to print or download the material after the first semester. Both WebCT and Library eReserves can block printing and downloading of materials while allowing the materials to be viewed.
