More information on The TEACH Act

Additional Digital Information on the TEACH Act:

The Teach Act helps to broaden the use of copyrighted materials in the digital teaching realm, yet there are still significant lapses in what teachers can use for face to face meetings, and what teachers can use when teaching on a virtual forum. For instance, music and movies can only be shown as clips, with “reasonable and limited portions”  as opposed to an educator using the work in a face to face classroom without permission (University of Texas Libraries, n.d., para.. 5).

Other interesting exclusion information:

While the materials that teachers would use to aid the in class lectures are protected, the TEACH Act does not cover materials teachers would have students use to study outside the classroom, or digital space. Therefore, teachers might have to actually get permission to suggest students watch movies or movies on their own time, or use a different law to back up this teaching strategy  (University of Texas Libraries,  n.d., para.10 ).

Other helpful points:

• -       Material must be directly related to the lesson
• -       Must be only allowed to be viewed by students enrolled in class and not sometimes not available after the class is completed
• -       May only be used if the school  is an accredited educational institution
• -       Don’t forget to state in the lesson that the materials are copyrighted
• -       Don’t make more copies besides the one used in the classroom

References

University of texas libraries. (n.d.). The TEACH Act. The TEACH Act. Retrieved from http://copyright.lib.utexas.edu/teachact.html

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