This guide provides legal information but does not constitute legal advice.
Harvard Business Review articles?
YouTube videos?
Netflix?
Workbooks?
Poetry?
Student work?
The guidelines on this page have been created by the Simmons University Library for use by the Simmons Community and are intended to provide responses to Frequently Asked Questions in applying U.S. copyright law. As with any Best Practices this information is subject to interpretation and is not legal advice.
From a single issue of an electronic journal held by the Library
You may provide links to any number of articles in Moodle.
From a single issue of a print journal held by the Library
You may provide a PDF of a single article in Moodle. If you wish to provide additional articles, you should obtain permission from the copyright holder.
Face-to-face (F2F) students can access print versions of articles in the Library.
From a single issue of a print or electronic journal NOT held by the Library
You may provide a PDF of one article in Moodle for one semester. For additional articles for the first semester, and for all articles in subsequent semesters, you should obtain permission from the copyright holder.
Films
You may show a film in any format in your F2F classroom or place a DVD on reserve for your F2F students.
You may provide in Moodle a link to films included in streaming services such as Kanopy.
For your online/distance classroom, you must use a streaming alternative, or require your students to rent or purchase their own copy of the material.
If you wish to show a film outside the classroom, you should obtain permission from the copyright holder or
use a streaming version that is licensed for public performance.
Photographs or other images
You may provide access to up to five images by a single artist in Moodle.
You may provide access to up to 15 images (or 10%, whichever is less) of the images from a published collective work or an anthology in Moodle.
If you wish to provide access to more than five images by a single artist from a collective work in Moodle, you should obtain permission from the copyright holder.
If you wish to provide access to more than 15 images (or 10%, whichever is less) from multiple artists in a collective work in Moodle, you should obtain permission from the copyright holder.
The ARTstor database contains a list of Permitted and Prohibited Uses which matches fair use guidelines and is generally friendly to classroom instruction and educational activities.