3.26 Copyrights - History

Board Policies
Chapter 3 - Educational Policies

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Policy History:

Date of Adoption: 6/19/02
Date of Implementation: 01/01/03
Date of Last Review: 05/22/24

Date & Subject of Amendments:

05/22/24 – Full review, technical edits made such as adding “Colleges and Universities” after Minnesota State in Part 1 and adding “U.S.” in second paragraph of Part 1 before “Copyright Act”.

01/29/20 – Added to Part 1 language that references the statutory exceptions in copyright law and OER. Applied the new formatting and writing styles to the policy.

11/16/11 - Effective 1/1/12, the Board of Trustees amends all board policies to change the term "Office of the Chancellor" to "system office," and to make necessary related grammatical changes.

05/19/10 - amended to provide guidance to help system colleges, universities and their respective students and employees comply with federal copyright laws