The following recommendations can help ensure a successful rollout and implementation of your Academic Copyright Policy.

Appoint a Copyright Officer

• Provide faculty and staff with a single, knowledgeable point of contact for all copyright-related questions.

Communicate from Day One

• Include your Academic Copyright Policy in the campus handbook and make it a featured topic at student orientation and in faculty and staff training.
• Educate students, faculty and employees of all kinds as to what constitutes infringement. Provide examples and outline the consequences of infringement.

Keep Your Policy Alive

• Schedule periodic policy updates for both policy developers and staff.
• Ask students and staff to renew their commitment to copyright compliance on an annual basis.

Lead by Example

• Ensure that leaders throughout the institution follow good compliance practices.

Make Information Accessible and Available

• Make copyright compliance a featured part of all institutional Web sites, including those maintained by all campus libraries and bookstores, and include it in all distance and e-learning tools. Include Q&As and insert reminders throughout Web sites.

Provide Notice

• Include appropriate copyright notices on all campus communications.
• Post reminders on all photocopy machines and common computer systems, and post the standard library photocopy notices required by the Copyright Act.
• Include periodic reminders about the institution's copyright policies in newsletters, newspapers and at meetings.
• Attach standard footers to documents reminding students and staff about copyright compliance requirements.

Make Compliance Easy

• Provide faculty, staff, students and other employees with the tools they need—such as Copyright Clearance Center's one-stop solutions—to exercise copyright compliance.