Easy one - consider everything copyrighted and prohibited from usage without written permission from the CREATOR. And rarely is "poster" the copyright holder... Cover your bases, and have your intellectual property lawyer on speed dial
You can also check with your Legal Department, especially if you are outside the U.S.
Things can vary by country. Years ago, in my old job as LMS manager, we had a developer in a South American country who using huge sections of many popular Hollywood movies in his Articulate Presenter course.
In his country, this was not a copyright violation. But here in the U.S., it is.
We were able to prohibit the use because we were managing the hosting servers (we had separate content servers outside the U.S. back then) and since the servers were in the U.S., we made the case that content had to abide by U.S. law. If he wanted to host the content in his own country, he was welcome to do but we were not going to assist in making things work with the LMS.
One of the ways I comply with copyright is to send a link to the video that is posted by the source in a pre-course email for instance or a pre-reading list. I'm not a lawyer so I would be interested in hearing if this is a violation. I'm in the U.S.
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Easy one - consider everything copyrighted and prohibited from usage without written permission from the CREATOR. And rarely is "poster" the copyright holder... Cover your bases, and have your intellectual property lawyer on speed dial
Hi Tim
This article may provide some further insight: https://www.thesitewizard.com/general/embed-youtube-video-copyright-matters.shtml
You can also check with your Legal Department, especially if you are outside the U.S.
Things can vary by country. Years ago, in my old job as LMS manager, we had a developer in a South American country who using huge sections of many popular Hollywood movies in his Articulate Presenter course.
In his country, this was not a copyright violation. But here in the U.S., it is.
We were able to prohibit the use because we were managing the hosting servers (we had separate content servers outside the U.S. back then) and since the servers were in the U.S., we made the case that content had to abide by U.S. law. If he wanted to host the content in his own country, he was welcome to do but we were not going to assist in making things work with the LMS.
Hi Tim,
One of the ways I comply with copyright is to send a link to the video that is posted by the source in a pre-course email for instance or a pre-reading list. I'm not a lawyer so I would be interested in hearing if this is a violation. I'm in the U.S.
Cheers,
Julie
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