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Copyright

Copyright permission or the purchase of usage rights is expected, for any items not within the professor's intellectual property. The best course of action is to seek permission for all copied material that you intend to use in class projects or for any other use.

Faculty may place print copies on Course Reserve. Please read all restrictions.

From the HPU Libraries Copyright Policy:

Coursepacks 

All articles, chapters, and other individual works in any print or electronic coursepack require copyright permission.

  1. Copyright permission for coursepacks is usually granted by the academic period. To reuse a coursepack in subsequent academic periods (e.g.: semester, quarter, trimester, etc.), one will probably need to obtain permission again. Many copyright holders provide time-sensitive permission because their own rights may be time-sensitive and could be transferred to different copyright holders at any time.
  2. When ordering coursepacks it is important to clarify who will obtain permission for the coursepack – the copy shop or reprographic center, the faculty member, or a member of the administrative staff.
  3. Deferring responsibility for copyright permission will not provide you protection against a claim of copyright infringement.  

In general, faculty and students may make a single copy of any of the following-- book chapter, article, short story, short essay, short poem, graph, drawing, chart, cartoon, picture -- for scholarly research or use in teaching or preparing to teach a class. You should consider the four factors of fair use listed in to make sure that any additional photocopying is justified. The following demonstrate situations where increased levels of photocopying would continue to remain within the ambit of fair use:

  • the inability to obtain another copy of the work because it is not available from another library or because the source cannot be obtained within your time constraints;
  • the intention to photocopy the material only once and not to distribute the material to others;
  • the ability to keep the amount of material photocopied within a reasonable proportion to the entire work (the larger the work, the greater amount of material which may be photocopied).