Teaching Support for Online Instruction

• John F. Moss Library has moved to virtual services only.
• The Library has stopped loaning all physical items (books, video, all equipment), including requesting books from Interlibrary Loan. Only articles will be requested.
• Please hold on to your books. Loan periods have been extended and all fees and fines will be waived from March 16th through May 15th.

The John F. Moss Library agrees with the finds of experts and supports the issue that copyright law should permit copying portions of rights-protected works during emergency remote teaching.

Contact a librarian for assistance if needed:

• Make an appointment with the Copyright/Fair Use Librarian
• Request Online Textbook

To best position yourself to assert a fair use argument when using video, consider doing the following:

• Link to the video if possible rather than making an electronic copy available to students. Linking to materials is ordinarily not a violation of copyright but rather a technological instruction for locating materials.
• If copying a video, do not use any more of the video than the amount needed to serve your purpose.
• Avoid copying videos from materials created and marketed primarily for use in courses such as the one at hand (e.g. from a textbook, workbook, or other instructional materials designed for the course). Use of more than a brief excerpt from such works on digital networks is unlikely to be transformative and therefore unlikely to be a fair use.
• Make sure that the video content serves a pedagogical purpose; do not use as entertainment.
• Place the video in the context of the course, explaining why it was chosen and what it was intended to illustrate. Recontextualize the video when appropriate through the addition of background readings, study questions, commentary, criticism, annotation, and student reactions.
• Limit access to the video to students enrolled in the course.
• Use streaming or other technologies that limit students' ability to download, copy, or redistribute the material.
• Notify students that videos are being made available for teaching, study, and research only.
• Provide attributions to known copyright owners of the videos.

The Open Video Project

The purpose of the Open Video Project is to collect and make available a repository of digitized video content for the digital video, multimedia retrieval, digital library, and other research communities. "The Open Video repository provides video clips from a variety of sources, especially various video programs obtained from U.S. government agencies such as the U.S. Records and Archives Administration and NASA. Although the government agency videos were produced with public funds and are freely available from the Archives, no copyright clearance has been obtained for audio or video elements in these productions. We encourage researchers to use the data under fair use for research purposes."