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Copyright What Every Educator & Student Should Know! By: Donna Deerfield What is Copyright? Protects creative expression… Book Recorded Music Internet Refers to laws that regulate the use of work from its creator… Includes copying, distributing, altering and displaying creative, literary and other works. Movie Multimedia Computer Program Screenplay Photograph Painting What is copyright infringement? It’s a no, no! No Copying! When you use or reproduce someone else's work without their permission. Penalty can be up to $150,000! Willful infringement is when you knew that you were copying and did it anyway. Ignorance is not bliss! What is Fair Use? A copyright principle based on belief that the public is entitled to freely use portions of copyrighted materials for the purposes of: Criticism Comment News Reporting Teaching Scholarship Research Fair Use Factors The purpose and character of use The nature of the work Nonfiction, published works The quantity to be borrowed Teaching in a public nonprofit institution Smallest amount borrowed, not the meat of the work The marketability of the work Your work doesn’t effect the marketability of the copyright owner What’s in Public Domain? Public Domain are works that are free to be used any way that you want Such as: Anything published before 1923 When the owner has given up all their ownership Federal government documents 70 years after the death of the owner When is Permission Required? In general: When material is intended for commercial use When material is used repeatedly When material is used in it’s entirety and is longer than 2,500 words General Tips for the Internet Always give credit to the source that was used If there are guidelines from the author about how to use the material, follow it If able, ask the author for permission General Tips for Students Students may incorporate small portions of copyrighted materials when designing an educational project Students may perform and display their own projects to use them for their academic protfolio General Tips for Teachers Teachers can use portions of copyrighted material when producing their own multimedia projects to support their teaching in a curriculum based instructional activity Teachers can use their projects for Assignments for student study Remote instruction with a secure network Conferences, presentations and workshops Own professional portfolio Classroom Copyright Printed Material Guidelines Poems and Excerpt of less than 250 words Articles, stories, essays less than 2,500 words Excerpts from longer work up to 10% or 1,000 words One chart, picture, diagram, graph, cartoon or picture per book 2 pages maximum from an illustrated work less than 2,500 words What we can do: Teachers can make multiple copies for classroom use only Classroom Copyright Printed Material Guidelines A chapter from a book An article from a periodical Short story, essay or poem Chart, graph, diagram, drawing, cartoon, picture from a book, periodical or newspaper What we can do: Teachers can make a single copy for teacher use for research or lesson preparation Classroom Copyright Printed Material Guidelines Portions of a work Entire work Work if the existing format of the work stored has become obsolete What we can do: Librarians can make up to 3 copies to replace the damaged, deteriorating, lost or stolen work Classroom Copyright Multimedia Projects Guidelines Basically same as Printed Material What we can do: Students can incorporate text into their multimedia projects Teachers can incorporate text for teaching materials/courses Classroom Copyright Video Guidelines Videotapes that are purchased or rented DVDs Laser Discs What we can do: Teacher may use these materials in the classroom without restrictions to length, percentage, or multiple use May not be used for entertainment or reward, must be used for educational purposes Classroom Copyright Video Multimedia Projects Guidelines Videotapes DVDs Laser Discs QuickTime Movies CDROMs What we can do: Students may use portions of the copyrighted material up to 10% or 3 minutes of the video Proper credit must also be given as part of their project Classroom Copyright Illustrations & Pictures Guidelines What we can do: Students and teachers can use single pictures in their entirety up to 5 Some older pictures from same artist may be in public From a collection no domain but collections are more than 15 pictures usually copyrighted or 10% Photographs (Collection) Illustrations (Collection) Classroom Copyright Music Guidelines Any type of music What we can do: Same general guidelines, up to 10% of the copyrighted music can be reproduced, performed or displayed in student or teacher’s presentation for educational use Some authorities state that the maximum length should not exceed 30 seconds Classroom Copyright Computer Software Guidelines Purchased or licensed software What can we do: Software Can not exceed the number of licenses Lent by library Installed at home and school Installed on multiple machines Copied for archival use Distributed to users via a network Classroom Copyright Internet Guidelines Internet connections World Wide Web What we can do: Students can download images and sound files for projects Can not repost images, sound or music files without permission Classroom Copyright Television Guidelines Broadcasts Network television such as NBC, ABC, CBS, PBS Tapes made from Broadcasts What can we do: Teachers can use live previously aired or taped broadcasts can be used for classroom instruction Classroom Copyright Cable TV Guidelines CNN MTV HBO Any tape recording made from Cable What can we do: Teachers can use only with permission Classroom Copyright Film Guidelines Films or filmstrips What can we do: Teachers may duplicate a single copy of a small portion of a film that they already own Works Cited Copyright and fair use in the classroom, on the internet, and the world wide web . (2010). Informally published manuscript, Library, University of Maryland University College, Largo, Maryland. Retrieved from http://www.umuc.edu/library/copy.shtml#whatis Butler, R. (2010). Copyright basics for the academic classroom. Informally published manuscript, Educational Technology, Research and Assessment, Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, Illinois. Retrieved from http://www.niu.edu/blackboard/coursecontent/copyright.shtml J. Dianne Brinson and Mark F. Radcliffe.An Intellectual Property Law Primer for Multimedia and Web Developers [Online] Available http://www.eff.org/Censorship/Academic_edu/CAF/law/ip-primer, 1996 MediaFestival.org, Initials. (2001, May 13). Copyright and fair use guidelines for teachers. Retrieved from http://www.mediafestival.org/copyrightchart.htm