Rosemary A. Chase

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. After all, the Digital Millennium Copyright Act

As an in-plant manager, you stand to be punished if you reproduce copyrighted material without getting permission. This includes the Internet. by Rosemary A. Chase Dear Copyright Queen, The World Wide Web is public domain, right? --Stressed Adjunct Professor