Teaching in class or online has unique needs and challenges with regard to copyright. Below are tips and legal resources for helping to identifying and meet those needs.
In general, section 110 allows for a broad range of displays and performances in a face-to-face classroom as long as those displays/performances aren't online and able to be disseminated widely. There are exceptions, but those exceptions primarily deal with anything beyond a physical classroom of students enrolled in a specific course.
That said, an important note regarding videos or sound recordings: only short clips typically can be lawfully displayed and only clips pertaining to the educational point needing to be made.
Do we have the same freedoms online as we do in the classroom? No, it's different. The TEACH Act governs what is permissible online, although Fair Use may also be considered.
In addition to copyright law, we also have a legal obligation to honor licenses with publishers. Currently one publisher disallows online educational use of its articles. That is the Harvard Business Review. For more information, please see the Harvard Business Review's licensing notice.
One of the specified conditions under copyright law (Section 108) is that the photocopy or reproduction is not to be "used for any purpose other than private study, scholarship, or research." If a user makes a request for, or later uses, a photocopy or reproduction for purposes in excess of "fair use," that user may be liable for copyright infringement. Therefore, a request by all students of a course for a particular book or article is not lawful.
It is important to note that for an instructor and institution to use the TEACH Act (Section 110), the institution must have copyright policies in place and distribute them to faculty, staff, & students; and the instructor must inform students in a course in which copyrighted material is used that it “may be subject to copyright protection.”.
Links to articles, e-journals, & e-books in the Library's collection can be put in PantherLearn, subject to the terms of the licensing agreements and considering Fair Use. There are best practices for doing so.