COD Library Copyright Guide: Quick Copyright for Faculty

Copyright plays a significant role in both face-to-face and online teaching. If you show images or films in your class, copy articles or chapters, use Blackboard or blogs, you should familiarize yourself with the copyright issues that impact you and your students.

This guide will provide you with an introduction to the essentials and point you toward additional resources and tools you can use to make navigating copyright in the classroom more straightforward.

Questions about copyright?
Contact Jennifer Kelley, the Library's copyright liaison

Materials you create for your classes – tests, worksheets, PowerPoint presentations, study guides – are your intellectual property, which means that copyright laws grant you exclusive rights over this work. You alone have the right to copy and distribute your material; unless you publish your work under a Creative Commons license or otherwise grant permission, anyone sharing your work is violating your copyright.

If you find course materials that YOU created on websites that do not have your permission, request that they are taken down.

How to Request the Removal of Your Intellectual Property from a Third Party Website

1. Use the online form provided by Learning Technologies 
2. Send a takedown notice directly to the service provider

In some cases, posted course material is indexed by search engines. You can use the search engine to find the infringing material. Learn how to create Google Alerts for your course materials.