Transcript Digital Citizenship/ Copyright Basics

Digital Citizenship/
Copyright Basics
Presented by:
Penny Stuiber
Media Specialist
Oconto Falls School District
21st Century Skills and
Digital Citizenship
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Information, Media and Technology Skills People in the
21st century live in a technology and media-suffused
environment, marked by various characteristics, including: 1)
access to an abundance of information, 2) rapid changes in
technology tools, and 3) the ability to collaborate and make
individual contributions on an unprecedented scale. To be
effective in the 21st century, citizens and workers must be able
to exhibit a range of functional and critical thinking skills related
to information, media and technology.
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Source: The Partnership for 21st Century Skills http://www.p21.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=61&Itemid=120
21st Century Skills and
the Importance of
Teaching Digital Citizenship
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Information Literacy Access and Evaluate Information
Access information efficiently (time) and effectively (sources)
Evaluate information critically and competently
Use and Manage Information
Use information accurately and creatively for the issue or
problem at hand
Manage the flow of information from a wide variety of sources
Apply a fundamental understanding of the ethical/legal issues
surrounding the access and use of information
Source: The Partnership for 21st Century Skills http://www.p21.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=264&Itemid=120
A Quote about
Modeling Digital Citizenship
Fair Use and Professional Responsibility: Beyond the legal aspects of
the copyright law lies an important issue -- Ethics. Educators, without
regard to or knowledge of copyright restrictions, sometimes duplicate
materials illegally or load software without license. Such copying,
seemingly convenient and unnoticeable, is, in fact, stealing--taking
someone's property without permission, thus depriving the author of
income or control to which he/she is entitled.
Teachers have a moral obligation to practice integrity and trustworthiness.
Just as they expect students to refrain from cheating on tests and from
taking others' belongings at school, teachers should honor the law
when it comes to fair use and copyright. Thus, teachers not only
should protect themselves from legal liability but should also model
honesty and truthfulness by knowing when and what may be copied
for educational use.
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Cathy Newsome, A Teacher's Guide to Fair Use and Copyright
Modeling Honesty and Resourcefulness
http://home.earthlink.net/~cnew/research.htm#Purpose of use
Let’s Start with a Quiz –
“The Copyright Quiz”
http://www.csus.edu/indiv/p/peachj/edte230/co
pyright/quiz.htm
This website was developed to help students
and staff see what they know about the
concept of copyright and how it applies to
what they can and cannot do in school.
Understanding Copyright and Related
Concepts
Patent
Copyright
Trademark
Forms of protection for the owner / creator of ideas,
inventions, artistic creations as well for logos and other
branding items that identify a product.
Patent Facts
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For Inventions
Must be renewed every 3.5, 7.5, 11.5
years
Very expensive to register a product for a
patent, may take up to 2 years, until then,
patent pending
Must be safe, legal, have a real use
Patents aren’t automatically international
If someone copies a patent, Infringement
lawsuit
Copyright
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For Artistic / Literary Creations: art, music, dance
routine, video game, poetry, books, pictures,
photographs…
Copyright is granted to the creator without having to
ever register
Lasts life of author plus 70 years unless created
before 1978 – then lasts 75 years
Gives creator the right to publish, reproduce or sell
works
Items can get an official registration through U.S.
Copyright Office for a fee
Trademark
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Anything that is used to identify a specific brand
or product
It lasts as long as the product is available for
sales
For more info go to:
http://atlaslawgroup.blogspot.com/2010_05_01_
archive.html
If items gets copied, Infringement lawsuit
Plagiarism
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The intentional act of copying all or just part of
another’s work and saying that it is your own.
The unintentional act of copying another’s work and
not giving proper credit to the source.
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Note: teachers should make sure that students know the
difference and that the student is responsible for giving
proper credit and that each educational institution will have
a policy to deal with plagiarism.
In the “non- educational” world, a lawsuit could be pursued.
Infringement
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When someone claims that an artistic
creation, invention or trademark symbol is
theirs or attempts to use such items without
permission from the creator.
Photo by Adam
Fagen,
www.flickr.com
Real Life Cases and
the Digital Millennium Act
Who was affected?
Musicians, Kazaa and other free music sharing
web sites, the NBA, photographers and website
owners, colleges and college students, middle
aged moms, and last but not least…grandfather:
Durwood Pickle!
Places to find more information on the
topics just presented:
U.S.Copyright Office – http://www.copyright.gov
Note: This site has a section just for educators to use with students.
Note to presenter : Show the worksheet and way it is used in IMC classes
A Teacher's Guide to Fair Use and Copyright
http://home.earthlink.net/~cnew/research.htm#Questions and
Restrictions
Videos on Fair Use and Basic Copyright Explanation and use of
derivitives
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GidwzOYiPl0&feature=player_embedd
ed
http://www.youtube.com/t/copyright_permissions
Fair Use and Educators
Fair use explicitly allows use of copyrighted materials for educational purposes
such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, and
research. Rather than listing exact limits of fair use, copyright law provides four
standards for determination of the fair use exemption:
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Purpose of use: Copying and using selected parts of copyrighted works for
specific educational purposes qualifies as fair use, especially if the copies are
made spontaneously, are used temporarily, and are not part of an anthology.
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Nature of the work: For copying paragraphs from a copyrighted source, fair
use easily applies. For copying a chapter, fair use may be questionable.
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Proportion/extent of the material used: Duplicating excerpts that are short in
relation to the entire copyrighted work or segments that do not reflect the
"essence" of the work is usually considered fair use.
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The effect on marketability: If there will be no reduction in sales because of
copying or distribution, the fair use exemption is likely to apply. This is the most
important of the four tests for fair use (Princeton University).
http://home.earthlink.net/~cnew/research.htm#Questions and Restrictions
Tools from the American Library Association
and Stanford University to help decide if what
are using is truly a “Fair Use”
http://www.ala.org/ala/issuesadvocacy/copyrigh
t/crtools/index.cfm
http://fairuse.stanford.edu/
Tools to keep everyone
“Copyright Compliant”
Bibliography Tools:
Citation Machine – http://citationmachine.net/
Easy Bib – http://easybib.com/
Microsoft Word Bibliography Tool:
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/word-help/create-abibliography-HA010067492.aspx
Web Sites for Copyright Free
Music / Sound Effects
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Soundzabound – www.soundzabound.com – Get to this site
by going to www.badgerlink.net
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From home use their own library card to access it.
http://www.freesound.org/index.php - you do have to register
http://www.soundjay.com/
http://www.pacdv.com/sounds/
http://www.stonewashed.net/sfx.html
http://www.partnersinrhyme.com/pir/PIRsfx.shtml
http://www.webplaces.com/html/sounds.htm
www.creativecommons.org
“Thunder” by
Mark DiAngelo
Creative Commons
Share, Remix, Reuse — Legally
Creative Commons is a nonprofit organization that
develops, supports, and stewards legal and
technical infrastructure that maximizes digital
creativity, sharing, and innovation.
From the Creative Commons Website
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http://creativecommons.org/
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/
link to video about this free licensing system
Places to Find Royalty Free Images
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www.flickr.com
http://www.freedigitalphotos.net/
http://www.pachd.com/
Use Creative Commons for searching or
type in “Royalty free images” in a search
engine
YOUTUBE and Copyright and The
Center for Social Media Resource Link
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http://www.youtube.com/t/copyright_center
http://centerforsocialmedia.org/fairuse/related-materials/codes/code-bestpractices-fair-use-media-literacy-education
Source for Copyright, Patent, Trademark information: Teacher’s Video
Company Videos