CCM400 Digital Copyright Issues -- Session 1

This online course covers copyright issues relating to digital content and social media.  Topics covered include:

• copyright protection in digital v. traditional works
• digital works that are protected
• determining whether a digital work is protected by copyright
• ownership of online content
• ownership of user-generated content
• existing laws that deal with digital copyright issues
• defining "electronic rights"
• licenses (for digital works) v. assignments of copyright
• digital licensing overview (Note:  CCM600 deals with how to work with digital license agreements)
• the role of a written digital license policy
• copyright treatment of specific digital uses of content including scanning/digitizing; online content; manipulating digital images; file-sharing; electronic reserves and online course material; teaching online/distance education; e-mail; linking; framing; discussions lists such as listservs, bulletin boards and newsgroups; browsing; caching; blogs; news feeds; downloading; printing; e-transfer; e-archiving, digital libraries and digital library projects; digital databases of articles; internal v. external uses; wikis; user-generated content; and social networking sites such as Facebook and Twitter
• digital rights management (DRM)
• the future of digital copyright