Educational Technology and Copyright Law

What is copyright?

• The exclusive legal right, given to an originator or an assignee to print, publish, perform, film, or record literary, artistic, or musical material, and to authorize others to do the same.
• All content that is copyrighted does not require filing paperwork.

As soon as you write a story, draw something, or even take a picture it is immediately copyrighted. 

As soon as you copyright something you have 4 rights:

1. Reproduce the copyright work
2. Display the copyright publicly
3. Prepare derivative works based on the copyright
4. Distribute copies of the copyrighted work to the public by sale, rental or lending, and/or to display the image.