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What file type to submit to the Library of Congress for copyrighting?
I am trying to get several eLearnings copyrighted and am not sure what type of file to submit based on their accepted file types: https://www.copyright.gov/eco/help-file-types.html
Has anyone gone through this, and if so, what file type did you use?
Hi, Caitlin,
I haven't done this. And I'm not a lawyer. So this is just my opinion based on what I've learned about copyrights over the years.
I'm guessing you want to copyright the content of your courses, that is, the combination of words and images. I think the best way to document that is to submit a PDF that shows all of the slides in your course.
- The easiest way to get images of slides is to publish the course to a Word document.
- However, the images of layers produced by that process doesn't necessarily show exactly how an interactive slide looks. That's because publishing to Word can't show the different states of buttons/objects. So for those kinds of slides, I suggest you capture the images yourself while stepping through Preview or a web-published version of the course.
- Personally, I'd edit the published Word document quite a bit to simply it, and then save it as a PDF for submission.
You might also want to include notes about how interactive slides work. But you can't copyright how something is programmed in Storyline.
