Module 202: Using Copyrighted Works

  • Congress passed the first  U.S Copyright Act

    Congress passed the first U.S Copyright Act

  • any work published prior to 1923 is considered public domain

  • any original work of authorship is automatically copyrighted without official notice, registration, or publication

  • after 1978, copyright protection wxpires automatically 70 ears after the death of the orignal author

  • The Technology, Education, and Copyright Harmonization (TEACH) act

    designed primarily to asress the need for clarification of permissible uses of copyrighted works in distance learning context

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