Copyright resources

Easy-to-understand blog post about closed captioning, copyright, and making information accessible to all students. If you don't read the whole post, at least read this direct quote:
"Can you get sued for adding captions to educational video? Technically, yes, it’s possible that someone could make the argument that adding captions violates someone’s copyright. But there’s no history of that happening in American case law. As the Harvard and MIT lawsuit illustrates, it is far more likely that a university will be sued for breaching accessibility law if you don’t add captions. It’s safer to err on the side of caution and add captions."

This article discusses the legal limits, conflicts, and unanswered legal questions of adding closed captioning to copyrighted video programming.

Created by Dwight Marvin Library at Hudson Valley Community College.