University Employee Policy Manual & Handbook

• Reproduction for blind or other people with disabilities (http://www.copyright.gov/title17/92chap1.html#121) • Secondary transmissions of local television programming by satellite (http://www.copyright.gov/title17/92chap1.html#122)

Anyone who wishes to use copyrighted materials within the scope of these exceptions must be able to document their justification or rationale for meeting the terms of the exceptions. 6) RETENTION OF RECORDS. The following policy statements are for the protection of UNA personnel in the event that their use of copyrighted materials is called into question. a. Persons who receive explicit permission to use copyrighted materials shall retain the record of these permissions in accordance with the Public Universities of Alabama Retention Schedule. b. Persons who use copyrighted materials under one of the statutory exceptions shall retain their written justification for this use in accordance with the Public Universities of Alabama Retention Schedule. c. These records and justifications must available at any time upon request. d. If an item that contains copyrighted material becomes wholly or partly the property of UNA then a copy of the permission to use or the justification for use of the copyrighted material must be submitted to and stored with the Office of the Provost and Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs. 7) OPEN EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES/CREATIVE COMMONS LICENSES. a. “Open Educational Resources" ("OER") are any type of educational materials that are distributed in a manner that allows for free use and reuse, without the need to ask for permission. The specific rights granted may vary between materials, or the works may be licensed under Creative Common licenses. OER can include textbooks, curricula, syllabi, lecture notes, assignments, tests, projects, audio, video, animation and more. https://oercommons.org/ b. Creative Commons is a similar initiative that may also include educational materials. Creators of these works make them available to the public with limited restrictions. Creative Commons licenses include: i. Attribution – the author must be credited, usually using the title of the work, author of the work, source of the work and the license that bears the work. ii. Non-commercial – you cannot profit from use of the work. iii. No derivatives – you cannot change the work, even in minor ways. iv. Share alike – whatever you do with the work, the result must bear a share alike license for others to use. https://creativecommons.org/. 8) A NOTE ABOUT WORKS ON SOCIAL MEDIA Just because it is possible to download works from social media does not mean that it is permissible. Most content in social media is protected by copyright. In addition, the terms of use of most social media platforms prohibit the downloading of content without permission.

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