Copyright Policy

Effective date: 10/16/20216 Last updated: 7/21/2026

WIN ELEMENTS LLC ("WIN ELEMENTS," "we," "us," or "our") operates Sleedu Professional Development (the "Service"), which trains teachers and school leaders to use available technologies — including third-party open-source learning management software and plugins hosted on Sleedu.com and its subdomains — to implement education-related strategies and resources that support students. WIN ELEMENTS LLC also operates a separate e-commerce website, winelements.com, hosted on separate servers.

Sleedu Professional Development allows instructors — including teachers, administrators, professional development specialists, and coaches — to organize their course materials and make them available to their students on our websites, including Sleedu.com and its subdomains. We respect the intellectual property rights of others, and we ask our users to do the same.

The guidance below is not legal advice. It is intended to help our users follow best practices in their course design, in accordance with the fair-use doctrine and the TEACH Act. This page also describes our Copyright Policy and the process we follow to respect the intellectual property rights of others. Please read this Copyright Policy together with our Terms of Service, which it supplements.

What is "fair use"?

Fair use is an exception to the exclusive protection of copyright under American law. It permits certain limited uses without permission from the author or owner. Depending on the circumstances, copying may be considered "fair" for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching (including multiple copies for classroom use), scholarship, or research. Keep in mind that even in an educational setting, it is not fair use to copy for a "commercial motive" or to copy "systematically" — that is, "where the aim is to substitute for subscription or purchase." No single factor by itself determines whether a particular use is "fair."

Source: Library of Congress — Copyright and Primary Sources

What is the TEACH Act?

Signed into law on November 2, 2002, the Technology, Education, and Copyright Harmonization (TEACH) Act amended the U.S. Copyright Act. Under certain circumstances, it allows faculty at accredited non-profit educational institutions to use portions of copyrighted works online without the consent of the copyright owner, if several conditions are met. The work performed or displayed must be:

  • an integral part of the class session, as determined by the instructor;
  • part of systematic, mediated instructional activities;
  • directly related and of material assistance to the teaching content; and
  • made available solely to students enrolled in the course, using technology that reasonably prevents retention of the work in accessible form for longer than the class session and that prevents unauthorized further dissemination — without interfering with the copyright owner's own technological protection measures.

How does Sleedu.com facilitate the TEACH Act?

We facilitate compliance by making it easy for instructors to restrict access to course materials to enrolled, authenticated students. We also post this Copyright Policy on our websites to remind our users to respect intellectual property.

What can you do to avoid infringing the intellectual property of others?

  • When possible, provide a link to copyrighted materials rather than uploading them directly to our website. Our platform allows users to easily link to images, videos, sites, and other sources without students leaving the current page.
  • Use only the amount of a work needed to achieve your teaching objectives.
  • Limit access to students who are currently enrolled in your course.
  • Use only lawfully acquired copies of materials (for example, items you or your institution purchased).
  • Repeated use of the same materials from semester to semester weighs against fair use; in such cases, it is best to obtain permission from the copyright owner.
  • Provide attribution to both the creator and the copyright holder.

What works are protected by copyright?

The following is quoted from the U.S. Copyright Office, Circular 1, to give examples of what can and cannot be copyrighted:

Copyright protects "original works of authorship" that are fixed in a tangible form of expression. The fixation need not be directly perceptible so long as it may be communicated with the aid of a machine or device. Copyrightable works include the following categories:

  1. literary works
  2. musical works, including any accompanying words
  3. dramatic works, including any accompanying music
  4. pantomimes and choreographic works
  5. pictorial, graphic, and sculptural works
  6. motion pictures and other audiovisual works
  7. sound recordings
  8. architectural works

These categories should be viewed broadly. For example, computer programs and most "compilations" may be registered as "literary works"; maps and architectural plans may be registered as "pictorial, graphic, and sculptural works."

What is not protected by copyright?

Also from Circular 1, several categories of material are generally not eligible for federal copyright protection, including:

  1. works that have not been fixed in a tangible form of expression (for example, choreographic works that have not been notated or recorded, or improvisational speeches or performances that have not been written or recorded)
  2. titles, names, short phrases, and slogans; familiar symbols or designs; mere variations of typographic ornamentation, lettering, or coloring; mere listings of ingredients or contents
  3. ideas, commonly known knowledge, procedures, methods, systems, processes, concepts, principles, discoveries, or devices, as distinguished from a description, explanation, or illustration
  4. works consisting entirely of information that is common property and containing no original authorship (for example, standard calendars, height and weight charts, tape measures and rulers, and lists or tables taken from public documents or other common sources)

Note on trademarks: trademarks are also protected intellectual property. A trademark is a word, phrase, logo, or design used to identify a particular brand — for example, "Post-It" is a trademark.

Notice of infringement and removal process

We respect the intellectual property of others, and we work to respond promptly to any notice of alleged copyright or trademark infringement.

If you believe your work has been used on Sleedu in a way that infringes your copyright or trademark, please send an email to hello@winelements.com with the subject line "Copyright Infringement" that includes ALL of the following information:

  1. your contact information, including your full name, telephone number, email address, and mailing address;
  2. identification of the material that you claim infringes your intellectual property;
  3. a description of where the identified material is located on Sleedu (for example, the URL of the page);
  4. an explanation of how the identified material infringes your intellectual property;
  5. a statement by you, made under penalty of perjury, that the information provided in your notice is accurate and that you are the intellectual property owner or a person authorized to act on the owner's behalf; and
  6. your physical or electronic signature.

A reminder about misrepresentation — 17 U.S.C. § 512(f):

Any person who knowingly materially misrepresents under this section — (1) that material or activity is infringing, or (2) that material or activity was removed or disabled by mistake or misidentification — shall be liable for any damages, including costs and attorneys' fees, incurred by the alleged infringer, by any copyright owner or copyright owner's authorized licensee, or by a service provider, who is injured by such misrepresentation, as the result of the service provider relying upon such misrepresentation in removing or disabling access to the material or activity claimed to be infringing, or in replacing the removed material or ceasing to disable access to it.

Source: 17 U.S.C. § 512

If you are unable to contact us, you may contact our Registered Agent:

California Registered Agent Inc 1267 Willis Street STE 200 Redding, CA 96001 Tel: (530) 232-5985 http://www.californiaregisteredagents.net agent@californiaregisteredagents.net

What happens after you email us your notice of infringement?

Make sure you have included all of the information above so we can address your request in a timely manner. We will review your notice and act on it in good faith. We will forward your notice to the user who posted the content, and we will remove or disable access to the material on our site. The user who posted the content has the right to submit a counter-notice if that person believes the content was misidentified or removed by mistake. If we receive a valid counter-notice, we will forward it to you. If a proper counter-notice is provided and the copyright holder does not file suit within ten (10) business days, we may restore the removed material.

Counter-notification process

If you have received a notice of copyright infringement from us regarding your content and you wish to dispute the claim, you may reply to the email with a counter-notice that includes ALL of the following:

  1. your contact information, including your full name, telephone number, email address, and mailing address;
  2. identification of the material that was removed;
  3. a description of where the material was located, including the URL of the page;
  4. a statement, made under penalty of perjury, that you have a good-faith belief that the material was removed or disabled as a result of a mistake or misidentification of the material (for example: "I swear, under penalty of perjury, that I have a good-faith belief that the material was removed or disabled as a result of a mistake or misidentification of the material to be removed or disabled.");
  5. a statement that you consent to the jurisdiction of the Federal District Court for the judicial district in which your address is located (or, if your address is outside the United States, the federal courts of the State of California), and that you will accept service of process from the person who provided the notice of infringement or that person's agent; and
  6. your physical or electronic signature.

What happens after you submit your counter-notice?

We will review your counter-notice to confirm it includes all of the required information above, and we will forward it to the person who sent the notice of infringement. That person then has ten (10) business days to take legal action to protect their work. If that happens, we will respect both parties and keep the material removed from our site until the matter is resolved.

Thank you for your cooperation and patience. We hope you will take part in making a difference in our students' learning by empowering our teachers.

For any questions about this Copyright Policy, contact us at hello@winelements.com.

Last modified: Tuesday, 21 July 2026, 3:47 PM