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CHAPTER 7. Academic and Educational Permissions

This section is intended to assist educators seeking permission to use copyrighted works for academic purposes. We provide information about assembling academic coursepacks and discuss issues that arise when using copyrighted material in the classroom. The chapter includes form agreements you can use to obtain clearances for coursepacks, and outlines some established and proposed educational fair use guidelines. We have included this information in a separate chapter because there are some special legal rules for academic uses and there are special services that assist in providing academic permissions.

The first half of this section focuses on the most common form of academic permission, the coursepack, a collection of copyrighted materials used for teaching. The second half of the chapter is devoted to an analysis of academic fair use guidelines. These guidelines establish principles in which permission is not required for educational use of copyrighted materials.

  1. Academic Coursepacks
    1. Coursepacks and Copyright
    2. Obtaining Clearance for Coursepacks
    3. Using a Clearance Service
    4. Assembling Your Own Coursepack
  2. Educational Uses of Non-Coursepack Materials
    1. Educational Fair Use Guidelines
    2. Rules for Reproducing Text Materials for Use in Class
    3. Rules for Reproducing Music
    4. Rules for Recording and Showing Television Programs
  3. Proposed Educational Guidelines on Fair Use
    1. Proposed Guidelines for Digital Copying
    2. Proposed Guidelines for Using Digitized Images in Lectures, Scholarly Presentations or Publications
    3. Proposed Guidelines for Students or Instructors Preparing Multimedia Works
  4. Library Photocopying
  5. Academic Permission Resources
    1. Coursepack Resources
    2. Educational Fair Use Guidelines

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