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Copyright Guide Created for Campuses
12/16/05
Representatives from several higher education groups have collaborated on a guide to help colleges and universities develop or refine their copyright policies. The 30-page guide, Campus Copyright Rights & Responsibilities: A Basic Guide to Policy Considerations (CCRR)," underscores the practices NACS has been promoting for years. Like the NACS "Questions & Answers on Copyright for the Campus Community," the new CCRR covers the copyright basics of compliance, gives guidelines for class copies, and other important information about fair use and obtaining copyright permission. Both copyright publications are available for free download from the Internet.
While the basic principles of copyright law have not changed substantially, the groups created the CCRR guide to help college and university professionals understand and adjust to some legal changes resulting from recent statutory amendments and court decisions, many involving copyrighted materials reproduced for the Internet.
The introduction to the CCRR points out, "Developments in digital technology have produced new ways to create and use copyrighted works, enhancing their availability and utility, while simultaneously increasing the potential risks of infringement to copyright owners."
The American Council on Education and the Authors Guild endorsed the CCRR copyright guide. The groups involved with the guide's creation are the Association of American Universities, the Association of Research Libraries, the Association of American University Presses, and the Association of American Publishers.
The guide reflects broad areas of agreement among the groups, which have had differing opinions on appropriate use of copyrighted works. The groups nonetheless produced a single guide that conveys common understanding about the basic meaning and practical significance of copyright for the higher education community.
Portions of the guide could particularly be useful for college store professionals who want to become more knowledgeable about copyright do's and don'ts, especially to help them better educate faculty. College stores can reproduce the guide for distribution among faculty to help them ensure they are in line with recent legal and technological developments affecting copyright concerns.
Parts of the guide college store professionals may find helpful include a section about coursepacks, another about classroom guidelines for determining fair use, and one on the guidelines for reproducing portions of copyrighted material for classroom instruction.
To download a copy of "Campus Copyright Rights & Responsibilities: A Basic Guide to Policy Considerations, go to www.nacs.org/goto.asp?id=1262.
To download the NACS "Questions & Answers on Copyright for the Campus Community," go to www.nacs.org/public/copyright .
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