Copyright Policy
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KCC Duplication Copyright Policy
The purpose of the copyright policy is to provide guideline for institutional duplication congruent with the specifications of the Copyright Law Revision, 1976.
SINGLE COPIES
Under the "fair use" section of the Copyright Law Revision 1976, a classroom teacher may make a single copy of the following:
- A chapter from a book.
- An article from a periodical or newspaper.
- A short story, essay, or short poem.
- A chart, graph, diagram, cartoon, picture from a book, periodical or newspaper.
MULTIPLE COPIES
(Copies not to exceed more than one per student in a course)
Multiple copies may be made for classroom use when the following conditions are met: (1) brevity; (2) spontaneity; (3) cumulative effect; and (4) a notice of copyright is included.
Brevity
- Poetry:
- A complete poem if less than 250 words and printed on two pages or less;
- An excerpt of not more than 250 words from a longer poem.
- Prose:
- A complete article, story or essay of less than 2500 words;
- An excerpt of any prose works of not more than 1000 words of 10% of the work, whichever is less.
- Illustrations: One chart, graph, diagram, drawing, cartoon, or picture per book or periodical issue.
Spontaneity
- Copying must be requested by the individual faculty member
- The decision to use the work must be such that its maximum teaching effectiveness does not allow time to request permission for use.
Cumulative Effect
- The material duplicated is for only one course.
- Not more than one short poem, article, story, essay, or two excerpts may be copies from the same author.
- Not more than three items from the same collective work or periodical volume may be copied.
- Instructors are limited to nine (9) instances of such multiple copying for one course. It is the responsibility of the instructor to maintain records of duplication requests made for each course during the semester.
Notice of Copyright
A written statement of copyright information including (1) the author's name; (2) journal or publication from which the excerpt was made; and (3) date of copyright must appear on all copies made.
COPYRIGHT PROHIBITED
- Duplication of consumable materials including workbooks, standardized tests, exercises, text booklets, and answer sheets is prohibited.
- Copy cannot:
- substitute for the purchase of materials;
- be repeated from semester to semester for the same item for an instructor.
- The student cannot be charged for the copy.
OBTAINING PERMISSION TO DUPLICATE
- Written permission to duplicate copyrighted work not covered by "fair use" (as stated above)
must be obtained before the duplication center will print the material.
- In obtaining permission the following steps are recommended:
- The owner of the copyrighted material should be determined;
- A letter containing the following should be written:
- Title, author, and/or editor and edition of materials to be duplicated.
- Exact material to be used, giving amount, page numbers, chapters, and if possible a photocopy of the material.
- Number of copies to be made.
- Form of distribution (classroom, newsletter, etc.)
- Whether or not the material is to be sold.
- Type of reprint (offset, Xerox, Ditto).
- A copy of the permission to duplicated must accompany the printing request.
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