How do I place copyrighted material on Google Docs?
I need to place a couple of articles on Google Docs for my study group. How do I make sure that I’m not violating any copyright laws and claiming that I created it, just that I’m making it available?
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Well, as soon as you distribute material that you’re not allowed to, you’re breaking the law. Make sure you’re licensed to distribute the work – perhaps by using material released under Creative Commons licenses.
If this is for a school-related study group, you are probably covered by Fair Use laws regardless of whether or not the articles are under a Creative Commons license. As long as you are limiting the availability to those in the study group, you should be fine.
Yes, as @SavoirFaire mentions because it is for school you are probably covered by the fair use doctrine. You might want to go over to Google docs and check out their help page They have this page that has help for students and they also have forums if your question isn’t answered here or in Google doc’s help pages. It looks like a lot of students and teachers use it so that might be your best bet unless someone here has more experience with this.
If you’ve already been to their help pages and forums please disregard this comment.
My first link is bad. I know you can find it but I want to correct it anyway, here’s the help page link again.
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