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USE OF COPYRIGHT WORKS FOR WEB PAGE PRODUCTION TRAINING
For the purposes of giving instruction in web page production, computing instructors often use materials such as images and music that are not their own creations as teaching materials, and this frequently gives rise to copyright disputes.
According to the Copyright Act, uploading a work onto a website and downloading a work from a website are both acts of reproduction, and uploading a work onto a website to make it ac-cessible for viewing by other persons is an act of public transmission. But the rights of reproduc-tion and public transmission are exclusive to the owner of economic rights in a copyright work. The ways in which computing instructors use works created by others for the purposes of training in web page production involve the re-production and public transmission of such works. Therefore, except insofar as such use complies with the Copyright Act's provisions on fair use, all such actions require the prior au-thorization or consent of the owners of the eco-nomic rights in such works, or they are likely to infringe copyright.