Library Guides: Fair Use to TEACH: Copyright Basics for Instructors: Home

Welcome to the Fair Use to TEACH Workshop!

In this workshop we will:

Explain the relationship between copyright, Fair Use, and the TEACH Act
Conduct a case study applying four factors analysis to make a Fair Use determination
Describe instructor rights and responsibilities under federal copyright law
Identify Berks Campus and University Libraries contacts for course-related copyright consultations

Fair Use to TEACH Workshop Slides
Fair Use Determination Scenarios
Evaluate the 'fairness' of your scenario. Is the use 'fair'? If so, why? If not, what could you do to make it 'fair' or otherwise copyright compliant?
Use the worksheet below to conduct your fair use determination!

Copyright at Penn State Berks & PSU

Use Creative Commons, copyright-free, or library licensed content when possible. This content is either free to reuse, or specifically licensed for teaching and learning purposes.
Make your use transformative when using copyright protected content. Transformative uses "add something new, with a further purpose or different character, and do not substitute for the original use of the work," including: criticism, comment, teaching, scholarship, research, course reserves, text mining and full-text indexing, archiving, parody and satire (US Copyright Office).
Limit your use to just the portion of the protected work, and the duration of access, needed to accomplish a learning objective.
Link or embed, rather than uploading a local copy. Look for permalink (aka stable or persistent link) and embed code generators in University Libraries databases. Electronic course reserves (e-reserves) can provide access to digitized print materials and other e-content. Limit distribution of content to authenticated students who are enrolled in your course, such as through Canvas.
Attribute. Provide a citation or copyright statement for course content.
Refresh. Fair Use / TEACH Act protect the right to use licensed (copyright-protected) content under limited purposes and for a limited time; seek permission if your use exceeds these provisions.

Tip! Searching a title in "quotation marks" will narrow your results to exact hits in most environments.

LionSearch This link opens in a new window
an integrated search of books, e-books, research articles, newspaper articles, and other publications.
Google Scholar This link opens in a new window
scholarly literature
Google Scholar enables you to search specifically for scholarly literature, including peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, preprints, abstracts and technical reports from all broad areas of research. Use Google Scholar to find articles from a wide variety of academic publishers, professional societies, preprint repositories and universities, as well as scholarly articles available across the web. Once you set your institutional preferences, links to full-text, if available at Penn State, should appear.

E-Course Reserves
Request an electronic course reserve to provide access to digitized print materials and other e-content.

Discover new open and affordable materials to update your course content.

Tip! Many OER repositories provide discipline-based search limits and filtered browsing.

Mason OER Metafinder (MOM)
Real-time federated search across 20+ repositories of OERs and digitized primary sources from George Mason University Libraries.
OASIS
Openly Available Sources Integrated Search (OASIS) is a search tool that aims to make the discovery of open content easier. User friendly, easy to use interface.
Open Textbook Library
Great for browsing peer reviews of textbooks; especially useful for instructors teaching large-enrollment courses.

MERLOT (Multimedia Educational Resources for Learning and Online Teaching) This link opens in a new window
interactive learning materials, assignments, reviews, and people.
The Multimedia Educational Resource for Learning and On-Line Teaching (MERLOT) is a high quality collection of interactive learning materials, assignments, reviews, and people.

More Course Materials links from OER@PSU
Additional open course material repositories and other access points for free-to-use content.