Copyright Ethics

To prepare for a study of intellectual property rights, (or an assessment) introduce your learners to the legal concepts and key vocabulary associated with the debate. After defining intellectual property, copyright, fair use, and...

What is the law of copyright? What types of things can be copyrighted? What types of materials can not be copyrighted? Find out by viewing the second video in a series about the hot topic of intellectual property.

Why have courts declared the Fair Use clause the most troublesome in copyright law? Does this clause mean that teachers can use copyrighted materials for educational purposes? What are the exceptions to copyright enforcement? Find...

Your learners will be very interested to learn about the Stop Online Piracy Act and how copyright infringement was challenged by a bill introduced into the United States Congress in 2012. The video provides an overview of the the bill's...

Have you ever posted a video that's gone viral? Savvy social media scholars examine the not-so-honest practice of using autoplay to count video views during a thought-provoking video. The animated video depicts the life of an uploaded...

The big idea in the fourth of a series of seven videos about intellectual property is that patents are for things while copyright for ideas. The narrator explains the five requirements that inventors address in order to be granted a patent.

A instructional activity focused on SOPA, Stop Online Privacy Act, which protects online businesses from counterfeiters and from folks using copyrighted materials without appropriate permissions.

Part of a series on Intellectual Property, Stan Muller is teaching us the basics about copyright law in the United States. [12:17]

The Internet Law Library features extensive summaries of court decisions shaping the law of the Web up to 2008. Issues include: intellectual property issues including copyright and trademark; jurisdiction; linking; framing; meta tags;...

What has copyright law have to do with the Dracula, the most famous vampire in history? Check out the twisted tale of how a fight over the royalty rights to Bram Stoker's novel gave immortality to the blood sucker.