Rights of Copyright Owner

The Copyright Act gives the owner of copyright the exclusive right to do and to authorize others to do the following:

• Reproduce (make copies of) the work;
• Make derivative works based on the work;
• Distribute copies to the public;
• Perform the work publicly;
• Display the work publicly.

In the case of works made for hire, the employer and not the employee is considered to be the author. Copyright law defines a “work made for hire” as a:

• Work prepared by an employee within the scope of his or her employment; or
• Work specially ordered or commissioned for use as a:
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  • Contribution to a collective work
  • Part of a motion picture or other audiovisual work
  • Translation
  • Supplementary work
  • Compilation
  • Instructional text
  • Test
  • Answer material for a test
  • Atlas

Faculty must obtain copyright permission when making multiple copies of:

• Music, unless using a copy of a purchased work during an emergency where the music is needed immediately (such as a performance), but another original copy must be purchased after emergency situation;
• Consumable materials (i.e. workbooks, standardized tests and lab manuals;
• A work (i.e. article, poem, essay, etc.) for classroom use which is known to have been copied for use in another course at the same institution;
• Any time a work is used, even if permission has been given in the past for a different class.