Thursday, August 20, 2020 — 10:00 AM to 11:00 AM EDT
Due to a lack of interest, this session has been cancelled. This workshop is offered again on Tuesday, August 25.
This session will provide a simple overview of copyright, and the implications it has in your teaching. By the end of this session you will be better prepared to:
Tuesday, August 11, 2020 — 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM EDT
This session will provide a simple overview of copyright, and the implications it has in your teaching. By the end of this session you will be better prepared to:
Tuesday, May 26, 2020 — 1:00 PM to 3:00 PM EDT
Learn how to search for and ethically use open educational resources in your course materials. Facilitated by Kari Weaver, instructional design librarian, and Kathryn Blair, copyright specialist at the Centre for Extended Learning, this introductory workshop covers copyright, licensing, sourcing, and selection of OERs.
Registration is required through the GoSignMeUp platform. If you have not used this system before to register for a workshop, you will need to create an account (one time only).
The Copyright Act contains exceptions (sometimes referred to as user rights) in addition to fair dealing that you may find helpful. These exceptions and their conditions are listed below.
Thursday, May 7, 2020 — 10:00 AM to 11:00 AM EDT
This session will provide a simple overview of copyright, and the implications it has in your teaching. By the end of this session you will be better prepared to:
Wednesday, April 29, 2020 — 10:00 AM to 11:00 AM EDT
This session will provide a simple overview of copyright, and the implications it has in your teaching. By the end of this session you will be better prepared to:
Tuesday, March 3, 2020 — 10:00 AM to 12:00 PM EST
Instructors are increasingly including open educational resources in their teaching material. Copyright, licensing, sourcing, and selection of OERs will be discussed Tuesday, March 3, 2020 between 10am and 12pm in LIB 323.
Please contact kblair@uwaterloo.ca or kdweaver@uwaterloo.ca to register by February 28, 2020.
As part of getting your work published, publishers will require you to sign or click through an agreement that gives them the right to publish your work. Once you've signed the agreement it is the authoritative source on what you can do with your own work. Publisher agreements differ, with some being more restrictive than others.
Copyright Protection
- copyright protection is automatic, on the creation of the work, given the work meets the requirements for copyright protection
- you do not need to use the copyright symbol
- you are not required to register for copyright protection
- copyright generally lasts for the life of the author and 70 years after their death
Your rights under the Copyright Act
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