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  Revised 02/2006

  Medaline Philbert
  mphilbert@pace.edu



Copyright and Distance Education






This is the Technology, Education and Copyright Harmonization (TEACH) Act extracted from among other Acts on the United States Copyright Office Web site. It has been slightly reformated for easier reading.

TEACH Act Text
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SEC. 13301. EDUCATIONAL USE COPYRIGHT EXEMPTION.

(a) Short Title.--This subtitle may be cited as the ``Technology, Education, and Copyright Harmonization Act of 2002''.

(b) Exemption of Certain Performances and Displays for Educational Uses.--Section 110 of title 17, United States Code, is amended--

(1) by striking paragraph (2) and inserting the following:

``(2) except with respect to a work produced or marketed primarily for performance or display as part of mediated instructional activities transmitted via digital networks, or a performance or display that is given by means of a copy or phonorecord that is not lawfully made and acquired under this title, and the transmitting government body or accredited nonprofit educational institution knew or had reason to believe was not lawfully made and acquired, the performance of a nondramatic literary or musical work or reasonable and limited portions of any other work, or display of a work in an amount comparable to that which is typically displayed in the course of a live classroom session, by or in the course of a transmission, if--

``(A) the performance or display is made by, at the direction of, or under the actual supervision of an instructor as an integral part of a class session offered as a regular part of the systematic mediated instructional activities of a governmental body or an accredited nonprofit educational institution;

``(B) the performance or display is directly related and of material assistance to the teaching content of the transmission;

``(C) the transmission is made solely for, and, to the extent technologically feasible, the reception of such transmission is limited to-

``(i) students officially enrolled in the course for which the transmission is made; or

``(ii) officers or employees of governmental bodies as a part of their official duties or employment; and

``(D) the transmitting body or institution-

``(i) institutes policies regarding copyright, provides informational materials to faculty, students, and relevant staff members that accurately describe, and promote compliance with, the laws of the United States relating to copyright, and provides notice to students that materials used in connection with the course may be subject to copyright protection; and

``(ii) in the case of digital transmissions-

``(I) applies technological measures that reasonably prevent-

``(aa) retention of the work in accessible form by recipients of the transmission from the transmitting body or institution for longer than the class session; and

``(bb) unauthorized further dissemination of the work in accessible form by such recipients to others; and

``(II) does not engage in conduct that could reasonably be expected to interfere with technological measures used by copyright owners to prevent such retention or unauthorized further dissemination;''; and

(2) by adding at the end the following:

``In paragraph (2), the term `mediated instructional activities' with respect to the performance or display of a work by digital transmission under this section refers to activities that use such work as an integral part of the class experience, controlled by or under the actual supervision of the instructor and analogous to the type of performance or display that would take place in a live classroom setting. The term does not refer to activities that use, in 1 or more class sessions of a single course, such works as textbooks, course packs, or other material in any media, copies or phonorecords of which are typically purchased or acquired by the students in higher education for their independent use and retention or are typically purchased or acquired for elementary and secondary students for their possession and independent use.

``For purposes of paragraph (2), accreditation-

``(A) with respect to an institution providing post- secondary education, shall be as determined by a regional or national accrediting agency recognized by the Council on Higher Education Accreditation or the United States Department of Education; and

``(B) with respect to an institution providing elementary or secondary education, shall be as


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