Policies and Plans

Palomar College Technology Policies

This section contains links to important College policy statements.

• Technology Master Plan
• Drafts, Proceedings and Minutes of the Technology Master Plan Task Force
• The Facilities Master Plan
• District Policies & Guidelines
• Palomar Community College District  Procedures and Guidelines for Telecommunications Access and Use
• Policy for the use of the academic technology labs
• Palomar College Student Code of Conduct
• Internet Usage Policies in the Academic Technology Labs

Copyright Issues

This section contains links to copyright issues and resources, especially those related to the TEACH Act of 2002.

• Palomar College Copyright Information
• Palomar College Information Disclaimer

The TEACH Act

Basically, the TEACH Act of 2002 harmonized the rights with respect to displaying copyrighted materials between classroom and distance computer mediated instructors.  The following links describe the effects of the Act, which was signed into law November, 2002.

• The TEACH Act (UI Copyright Management Center)
• TEACH Act Toolkit (NCSU)
• TEACH Act resources from the Association of Research Libraries

Be sure to at least go through the NCSU Teach Act check list before requesting Academic Technology to digitize materials to be placed within a copyright protected area on the Internet.  Basically, your materials must meet the following criteria:

1. They must be integral to your teaching of the course, and not simply background or enrichment materials.
2. They must not have been produced for the distance education market in the first place.
3. They must be no longer than a typical class period.
4. They must be legally obtained.
5. There is not already be a digitized version of the materials already available to your students.
6. They must be available only to the students enrolled in the class for which they are intended and only for the term for which that class is being actively taught.
7. You must disclose full copyright information about the materials, along with a warning prohibiting duplication.
8. You must make every reasonable effort to prevent duplication and redistribution.

Copyright resources from Academic Technology.

Related Resources

Palomar College Links

• Palomar College Governing Board
• Strategic Planning Web Site
• Institutional Research & Planning Web Site

Related to Copyright

• University of Indiana Copyright Management Center
• US Copyright Office
• Complete version of the US Copyright law, US Code Title 17
• Copyright Basics
• Law About Copyright (Cornell Legal Information Institute)
• Institute for Computer Law and Policy (Edcause & Cornell)
• Digital Millennium Copyright Act (Social Law Library)
• Getting Permission (U. of Texas)
• Obtaining Permissions (with sample letter) (CETUS)
• Copyright Resources Online (Yale)
• Stanford University: Copyright & Fair Use
• The Copyright Web Site (lots of great examples)