Own Your Rights - Presentation

Introduction | Presentation | Activity | Further Resources

Watch a video (5 minutes)

Watch the introductory video, What is Copyright? Links to an external site. from the U.S. Copyright Office. The video outlines what copyright involves, the types of works that are subject to copyright protection.

Slide presentation (5 minutes)

Access the "Own Your Rights" presentation on Google Slides.

Highlights

Your bundle of rights

What rights does copyright give you?

Reproduce
Prepare
Distribute
Perform
Display

Contract options

What options do you typically have for your bundle?

Keep
Exchange
Share

Take-aways

It’s good to keep copies of all contracts
Most contracts take full copyright
The rights that are returned to authors are often complex and rarely consistent