Copyrights and Wrongs: How to Avoid Committing Copyright Infringement When Creating Training Materials

Human resource professionals, who often oversee the development of training materials, should be aware that using other people's content without permission can lead to lengthy lawsuits, expensive legal bills and large damages payments. Misuse is particularly easy in the Internet age, when copying content, images, video and music is just a click away.--Mark V. B. Partridge, Society for Human Resource Management's HR Magazine, November 2008 issue