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 Vision 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 Policies
This section contains links to copyright issues and resources, especially those related to the TEACH Act of 2002.
To use multimedia elements online, that is, anything that might be displayed or performed in a traditional classroom, you have three choices with regard to copying the materials:
- TEACH Act authorization
- Fair Use
- Permission of the copyright holder
With respect to printed materials intended for student reading: If it is a journal article, we recommend linking to it in the legally licensed journal databases maintained by the college. The journal databases can be found here. If the article or text cannot be found in one of the databases or on the Internet on a publicly available site, then you must either make a fair use argument for duplicating the textual material or get permission from the copyright holder.
Resources Related to Copyright
- US Copyright Office
- The complete version of the US Copyright law, US Code Title 17
- Copyright Resources Online (Yale)
- Stanford University: Copyright & Fair Use
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 in November 2002.
- TEACH Act Toolkit (NCSU)
Be sure to go through the NCSU Teach Act checklist 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:
- They must be integral to your teaching of the course, and not simply background or enrichment materials.
- They must not have been produced for the distance education market in the first place.
- They must be no longer than a typical class period.
- They must be legally obtained.
- There is not already be a digitized version of the materials already available to your students.
- 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.
- You must disclose full copyright information about the materials, along with a warning prohibiting duplication.
- You must make every reasonable effort to prevent duplication and redistribution.
