Copyright and You: Copyright Instruction for College Students in the Digital Age

Creation and Use of Intellectual Works in the Academic Environment: Students' Knowledge About Copyright and Copyleft

“…Although nowadays the library more actively instructs its users about ethical and legal issues regarding information, it tends to concentrate on the sector of professors and researchers, especially due to multiple questions generated by the open access movement and its diverse routes. In the case of students, with some exceptions (Rodriguez, Greer, & Shipman, 2014), efforts seem to be concentrated in the direction of plagiarism and its detection using software, instead of on providing adequate instruction so that students will proceed in an ethical and legal way when using information. In our opinion, the adequate focus would not be exclusively on compliance with copyright law, but rather on the global comprehension of the ethical/legal principles implicit in the creation and use of information in the academic setting.…”

Undergraduate students' knowledge of copyright infringement

“…The results revealed a level of knowledge far below the one required to make proper use of the copyrighted works of other parties, or to appropriately protect and diffuse one's own intellectual creations deriving from activity as a university student. Rodriguez, Greer, and Shipman (2014) discussed the importance of developing copyright education for students as part of an overall information literacy curriculum by describing the development of a relevant, active learning online course targeting students' competencies as both users of and creators of creative content. Tang, Liang, Chen (2013) examined the copyright statements attached to electronic resources provided by college libraries to determine how often they are present, and analyzed the content of those statements for common themes.…”

Using open educational resources to empower student creators

“…Librarians have typically been tasked with helping their faculty and students understand the intricacies of Copyright Law on their campuses, either through their liaison role or with instruction, as they can provide point-of-need instruction and expertise on copyright issues on their campuses (Rodriguez, Greer, & Shipman, 2014). The ACRL Framework emphasizes the importance of understanding intellectual property laws, as well as the purpose and characteristics of copyright, fair use, open access, and the public domain (American College & Research Libraries, 2016).…”

“…This may be framed within digital literacy instruction or media literacy instruction with fair use and creative commons concepts and resources. School librarians in the K12 setting have created many resources to help equip students to learn how to respect copyright and intellectual property rights, but there is a gap in the literature for how to do so in higher education (Rodriguez, Greer, & Shipman, 2014).…”