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Copyright Policy Student Use of Electronic Materials: For students enrolled in a course at Earlham College, here are guidelines to follow before using the electronic or multimedia materials3 for study or for use in creating projects and writing papers. Library Reserves / Electronic Materials The purpose of the Reserve Services of Lilly and Wildman libraries is to collect and maintain course-related materials for intensive student use. Both library-owned materials and those supplied by faculty members are processed for reserve by library staff. Policies on print reserves are below. The use of a course management system (e.g., Moodle) will provide the capability to provide controlled access to electronic forms of class material. Copyright Law The U.S. copyright law grants to creators, such as authors and artists, the exclusive right to copy, distribute, and perform their work, as well as the right to create “derivative” works based on their original work. But the law recognizes that scholarly work requires teachers, students, and researchers to reproduce and share pieces of original, copyrighted work for study and criticism. So, the law also allows a student to make limited use of copyrighted material for educational purposes. What follows provides guidelines for the legal use of electronic and multimedia materials: Use of Electronic and Multimedia Materials In the course of study one must assume that copyright law protects all electronic and multimedia materials encountered, unless there is a specific reason to believe that they are in the public domain, the copyright holders will permit the item’s use, or they are public domain government publications. Students may read, examine, watch, and listen to electronic and/or multimedia materials in the library, classrooms, Instructional Technology and Media (ITAM) Center, on public computers and video monitors, and on personal equipment (television sets, computers) attached or authenticated to use the campus network.In general students may copy assigned multimedia materials for private study and/or research. However they may not actively distribute it or passively make it available for use by others without written permission of the copyright holder. Students may copy small segments of electronic or multimedia material, and transfer the segments to another medium (e.g. from videotape to digitized form), if they use the materials in a project or paper that has been assigned to meet the requirements of an Earlham College course or that is part of an independent work project or paper for which Earlham College credit is received. There is no legal definition of "small," but the segments copied should represent only a fraction of the original work. The work must be given due credit through a citation to the source. Students may manipulate these small segments (that is, change their look or sound) only for purposes of study or criticism. They must clearly state what changes have been made to the original. Students must obtain permission from the copyright holder(s) to make extensive use of copyrighted material beyond the fair use guidelines on page 3, or to share the material beyond the class, or to create a new work. 3 Multimedia materials are combinations of data, texts, still images, animations, moving images, and sounds. Multimedia materials may be found on videotapes, audiotapes, and laserdiscs. Digitized multimedia materials may reside on floppy disks, CD-ROMs, digital tapes, and the hard disks of networked computer servers, including World Wide Web servers.
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