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Mark Todd
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Teresa Milbrodt
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Linda Manzano- Larsen
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Barbara Woerner 
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John Huasdoerffer
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Teach Act Compliance

 

Taken directly from the University of Texas System, Office of General Counsel at http://www.utsystem.edu/OGC/IntellectualProperty/teachact.htm#actsummary

Teach Act PDF

Faculty TEACH Act Compliance Checklist

 

    • My institution is a nonprofit accredited educational institution or a governmental agency

    • It has a policy on the use of copyrighted materials

    • It provides accurate information to faculty, students and staff about copyright

    • Its systems will not interfere with technological controls within the materials I want to use

    • The materials I want to use are specifically for students in my class

    • Only those students will have access to the materials

    • The materials will be provided at my direction during the relevant lesson

    • The materials are directly related and of material assistance to my teaching content

    • My class is part of the regular offerings of my institution

    • I will include a notice that the materials are protected by copyright

    • I will use technology that reasonably limits the students' ability to retain or further distribute the materials

    • I will make the materials available to the students only for a period of time that is relevant to the context of a class session

    • I will store the materials on a secure server and transmit them only as permitted by this law

    • I will not make any copies other than the one I need to make the transmission

    • The materials are of the proper type and amount the law authorizes:

    • Entire performances of nondramatic literary and musical works

    • Reasonable and limited parts of a dramatic literary, musical, or audiovisual works

    • Displays of other works, such as images, in amounts similar to typical displays in face-to-face teaching

The materials are not among those the law specifically excludes from its coverage:

    • Materials specifically marketed for classroom use for digital distance education
    • Copies I know or should know are illegal
    • Textbooks, coursepacks, electronic reserves and similar materials typically purchased individually by the students for independent review outside the classroom or class session

If I am using an analog original, I checked before digitizing it to be sure:

    • I copied only the amount that I am authorized to transmit
    • There is no digital copy of the work available except with technological protections that prevent my using it for the class in the way the statue authorizes