Copyright Permission In The Digital Age

With terms like TEACH, Fair Use and the Digital Millennium Copyright Act being tossed around, how is an in-plant manager to know when to get permission? Here's some help.

By Rosemary A. Chase

In the wake of numerous lawsuits filed by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), copyright law has been in the spotlight a lot lately. And with the Web making it easy for anyone to be a "publisher" by simply putting other people's words, images and music on our own Web sites, we stand to see a lot more news about copyright infringement.