Using Copyrighted Text for Unlisted prisms

[Deb Schiano]

I'm a teacher and unsure about my rights regarding adding text to an unlisted prism which isn't in the Public Domain or Creative Commons Licenced, such as an article from a news magazine. I'm eager to use in class but unsure about my rights. 

[Anne Marie Chow]

I have the same question. Has it been answered somewhere?

[walsh.bran...@gmail.com]

Sorry - at some point my google notifications got turned off for this group!

The terms of service are a bit buried, but I'll reiterate them here. In terms of copyright, your main question seems to be about fair use. You can read more about fair use here -  https://marymount.libguides.com/c.php?g=271976&p=1815238. I'm no lawyer, but I would assume that most things used in Prism would either:

a) fall under fair use in that they would only be portions of the total text

b) or need to be private prisms shared only with your class

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TERMS OF SERVICEPURPOSE AND SCOPE OF THIS SITE

This site has been created under the ownership and control of the University of Virginia Library to allow use of the Prism program created by the Scholars' Lab Praxis Program. Its purpose is to provide an online collaborative interpretive tool. Through Prism, users are able to share texts and allow others to interact with those texts to create a collaborative interpretation. No submitted texts will be reviewed before being published online, but the Scholars' Lab does reserve the right to request revisions or remove any given texts. In other words, the Scholars' Lab Prism website has been established to allow for collaborative interpretation, and does not constitute a forum for general expression.

LEGAL RESPONSIBILITIES

By submitting text to the Prism application, you agree that it is your individual responsibility to adhere to all applicable legal requirements including copyright law, and that you have not posted content that is defamatory of or harmful to the legal rights of others. You represent and warrant that you either own or have received permission to post the all content submitted, or that your excerpts from the original works of others are consistent with fair use guidelines under US copyright law.

PUBLICATION RULES

The Prism application and the resulting collaborative interpretations, or “prisms,” are published under the Creative Commons Attribution Public Use License. This license does not interfere with your personal ability to reuse or republish self-authored content you post here, either in a commercial or noncommercial context.

When uploading text to Prism, you will be prompted to select the appropriate Creative Commons License. Please note that this license covers the base text of your own authorship; it does not cover the resulting collaborative interpretation, or “prism.” Visit the Commons License website to learn more about the difference between each license.