The TEACH Act
On November 2nd, 2002 President Bush signed the "Technology, Education and Copyright Harmonization Act" (The TEACH Act) into law. The TEACH Act redefines the terms and conditions on which educators may use copyright protected materials in online education. Although the act establishes new opportunities for educators to use copyrighted works online without permission and payment of royalties, these opportunities are subject to limits and new conditions.
This purpose of this site is to provide links to websites that describe these new opportunities, as well as the accompanying responsibilities.
(1) Ken Crews has written a summary of the Teach Act for the American Library Association Distance Education Website
(2)The IUPUI Copy Management Center provides an overview of copyright and distance education, and materials about the TEACH Act. This site includes a checklist for faculty, institutions, and information technology officials to comply with the law.
(3a) Georgia
Harper at UT Austin discusses the TEACH Act and provides a checklist
"to see if you are ready to use the TEACH Act." This helpful summary, with a few minor revisions and better formatting is also available in the Copyright Crash Course http://copyright.lib.utexas.edu/teachact.html
(4) North Carolina State University supplies The TEACH Toolkit Their "toolkit" also includes checklists to insure compliance with the new law.
(5) The Teach Act was signed by Pres. Bush on November 2, 2002 as part
of the larger Justice Reauthorization Legislation (H.R. 2215) The TEACH
Act legislation itself, "Public Law 107-273" (this document is huge) is near
bottom under, Subtitle C, Sec 13301.
(6) The new text
of 110(2) is also available from IUPUI Copy Management Center!
Lawmakers deleted old subsection 110(2) and inserted the new one, and
also added information to the end of Section 110. Section112(f) was also
amended. (See the new 112(f) at http://www.csuchico.edu/lcmt/teachact/112(f).htm
or the Public
Law 107-273 link)
(7) The law is also available from the Thomas website: http://thomas.loc.gov/
The TEACH Act was passed in the 107th Congress, so click on the "Bill
Text" link, and select the 107th Congress at the top of the page.
Next enter "H.R.2215.ENR". You will pull up the "Department
of Justice Appropriations Authorization Act", as the TEACH Act is
part of this larger Act. Next search this document for "sec. 13301"
to get to TEACH Act. (use Edit/find feature in your browser)
(8) Laura Gasaway has constructed a chart
comparing Sections 110(1) and 110(2)
Last Updated: July 29, 2008 3:48 PM