Copyright
 The University of Minnesota
does not consider teaching over the Interactive Television Network face-to-face
teaching under the current copyright law. Therefore your ability to
use works without the copyright owner's permission is more limited.
Use of the UM-ITV Network is
considered a transmission; therefore, stringent copyright rules apply
to any handouts or graphics.
Limitation on Copyright
Owner's Rights Relevant to Distance Learning
The following exemption to
the copyright owner's exclusive right to perform or display a work publicly
allows an educator to perform a nondramatic literary or musical work or
to display a work by or in the course of transmission if the following
criteria are all met:
- the performance or display
is a regular part of the systematic instructional activities of a
non-profit educational institution; and
- the performance or display
is directly related and of material assistance to the teaching content
of the transmission; and
- the transmission is made
primarily for (i) reception in classroom or similar places normally
devoted to instruction, or...
Nondramatic works include works
of fiction, nonfiction, poetry and texts. This presupposes that the copy
of the work being displayed or performed is a lawfully made copy and was
not made in violation of the copyright law. Unlike face-to-face teaching,
this exception does not extend to the performance of dramatic works or
the showing of motion pictures or videos, for example. Moreover, the performance
or display must be for educational and not entertainment or other purposes.
Here is a sample letter to assist you in obtaining
copyright permission.
Copyright Permissions Center
The Copyright Permissions Center
charges a small fee for assisting University employees in obtaining permission
necessary to reproduce copyrighted material. If you question whether an
anticipated copying or performance might violate a copyright owner's exclusive
rights, you should obtain prior permission for your intended use from
the copyright owner, which takes an average of four to six weeks. The
copyright owner will probably charge a royalty for granting permission
for the requested use. This cost is typically passed along to the students
in the cost for the copied materials. To obtain copyright permission,
the Copyright Permissions Center needs the following information:
1. A complete bibliographic
citation of the original work, including as much of the following information
as possible: title of the book, paper, or article; author's name; publisher;
year of publication; volume or issue of the periodical. The cite must
include the exact page numbers that you intend to copy. Note that if the
work is reprinted in an anthology or other compilation, the Copyright
Permissions Center must have the citation for the original source.
2. For copying, the approximate
number of students for whom you intend to copy the work. For a work that
you intend to perform in a Distance Learning Class, tell the Center that
the work will be broadcast via the T-1 line (analogous to a closed circuit)
to other University of Minnesota classrooms.
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