{"id":998,"date":"2021-04-27T17:30:57","date_gmt":"2021-04-27T17:30:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.sandiego.edu\/sb-ols\/?p=998"},"modified":"2021-04-27T17:31:03","modified_gmt":"2021-04-27T17:31:03","slug":"copyright-protection-in-elearning-design","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.sandiego.edu\/sb-ols\/copyright-protection-in-elearning-design\/","title":{"rendered":"Copyright Protection In eLearning Design"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

When eLearning content designers create material for their courses, they invest considerable amount of time, skill, effort, and money into its production. If you are an independent designer, or running your own eLearning consulting business, you have much more at stake in your creations. As a result, there is often an implied understanding of \u201cownership\u201d for the content. However, oftentimes content created through your toil and labor can be surreptitiously copied and used by someone else; depriving you not only of acknowledgement of ownership, but also of potential material and financial benefits that may have accrued to you. Copyright aims to put an end to such \u201cmisappropriation\u201d of content that lawfully belongs to you. In most cases (though there are limitations and exemptions) such protection grants the original creator the right to own the content, and decide who can use, share or disseminate it. In this article we will talk about copyright protection in eLearning. We will also go over some useful tips to consider when dealing with copyrighted content.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Things You Should Know About Copyright Protection In eLearning<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Your eLearning content, when properly copyrighted, enjoys protection under the Copyright Law of the United States. The Copyright Act of 1976<\/a>, as subsequently amended since then, offers lawful owners the rights to safeguard their creations and, where legally permitted, enjoy the benefits of those creations:<\/p>\n\n\n\n