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- As a Mandala user, you have promised to use the platform in ways consistent with the law, including copyright law. You are responsible for your uses of the platform. Mandala will comply with lawful take-down requests made under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act. More information about the DMCA at UVA is available here: https://security.virginia.edu/dmca.
- One way that Mandala allows you to work within the law is by tailoring your use to restrict access to each asset or collection. In Mandala, you may choose among the following restriction classifications:
- Public
- Private
- Group
- Class
- UVA Only
- When sharing materials for course use with Mandala, consider Principle One from the Association of Research Libraries' Code of Best Practices in Fair Use for Academic and Research Libraries. That Principle states that "It is fair use to make appropriately tailored course-related content available to enrolled students via digital networks," subject to the following limitations:
- Closer scrutiny should be applied to uses of content created and marketed primarily for use in courses such as the one at issue (e.g., a textbook, workbook, or anthology designed for the course). Use of more than a brief excerpt from such works on digital networks is unlikely to be transformative and therefore unlikely to be a fair use.
- The availability of materials should be coextensive with the duration of the course or other time-limited use (e.g., a research project) for which they have been made available at an instructor’s direction.
Only eligible students and other qualified persons (e.g., professors’ graduate assistants) should have access to materials.
Materials should be made available only when, and only to the extent that, there is a clear, articulable nexus between the instructor’s pedagogical purpose and the kind and amount of content involved.
When appropriate, the number of students with simultaneous access to online materials should be limited.
Students should also be given information about their rights and responsibilities regarding their own use of course materials. (For example, instructors could include in their Mandala pages a notice to students that materials are provided for use in connection with the course, and that other uses may require students to seek permission from the copyright holder.)
Full attribution, in a form satisfactory to scholars in the field, should be provided for each work included or excerpted.
- It is a good practice to keep a record of your rationale for using a given excerpt—what is your pedagogical purpose, and how is the amount you use appropriate to that purpose?
- Review posted materials and make updates as appropriate; remove copyrighted material that is no longer useful to the course from the course site.
- When publishing materials to the public web using Mandala, consult Best Practices documents that address uses in public, such as:
- Open CourseWare: http://cmsimpact.org/code/code-best-practices-fair-use-opencourseware/
- The Visual Arts: http://cmsimpact.org/code/fair-use-for-the-visual-arts/
- Visual Resources (similar to Visual Arts, but with more emphasis on scholarship and teaching): http://cmsimpact.org/code/statement-on-the-fair-use-of-images-for-teaching-research-and-study/
- Cinema and Media Studies Teaching: http://cmsimpact.org/code/society-cinema-media-studies-statement-best-practices-fair-use-teaching-film-media-educators/
- Cinema and Media Studies Publishing: http://cmsimpact.org/code/society-cinema-media-studies-statement-fair-use-best-practices-media-studies-publishing/
- The Center for Media and Social Impact has collected all the best practices documents here: http://cmsimpact.org/codes-of-best-practices/.
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