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Copyright is a form of protection grounded in the
U.S. Constitution and granted by law for original
works of authorship fixed in a tangible medium of
expression. Copyright covers both published and
unpublished works.
www.copyright.gov
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happens when a copyrighted
work is:
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Reproduced
Distributed
Performed
Publicly Displayed
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All without permission
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may not do any of this in your
classroom with works that are not
your own
 -There is a way to protect yourself
 You
can use things without permission if it is
considered “Fair Use”.
 Fair
Use helps gives people leeway when
using materials that are not their own.
 This allows you too use some materials, but
there are limitations
 First, we need the definition
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use allows educational
institutions the use of copyrighted
materials without permission from
the copyright holder under certain
conditions.
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for institutions is the
most important limitation on
copyright holders.
 What does this mean for you?
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Fair Use (Section 107 of the Copyright Act) allows
reproduction and other use of copyrighted works for
purposes such as:
Criticism
 Comment
 News reporting
 TEACHING
 Scholarship
 Research
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www.copyright.gov
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Four Factors:
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character of the use
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the nature of the work,
3.
the amount used in proportion to the whole
4.
the impact on the market for the work.
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If you know who the author and the publisher are, you
can contact them directly. Wake Forest University
maintains a site with links to many publishers.
If you do not know who the publisher is, The Literary
Marketplace (for books) or Ulrich's International
Periodicals (for journals), both published by the R. R.
Bowker Company, may help you.
Project Acorn provides extremely helpful information
about how to find copyright owners as does U.T.
Austin's Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center.
If you visit these sites, spend some time there
exploring all the information they have provided about
the whole process of getting permission
http://www.utsystem.edu/ogc/intellectualproperty/permissn.htm#contact
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Motion Media:
 Up to 10% or 3 minutes, whichever is less
Text Material:
 Up to 10% of total or 1,000 words, whichever is
less
 An entire poem of 250 words or less. (No more
than 3 poems by one author)
Music, Lyrics and Music Videos:
 Up to 10% of work, but no more than 30 seconds
of music or lyrics from an individual work.
www.umuc.edu
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Illustrations or photographs:
 No more than 5 images from one artist or
photographer
 No more than 10% or 15 images, whichever is
less, from one collection
Numerical Data Sets:
 Up to 10% or 2,500 fields or cell entries,
whichever is less, from a copyrighted database or
data table
Copying of a Multimedia project:
 No more than 2 copies may be made
www.umuc.edu
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You intend to use the project for a commercial or
non educational purposes.
You intend to duplicate the project beyond two
copies.
You plan to distribute the project beyond dictated in
guidelines.
WWW.UMUC.EDU
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The copyright owner can elect to receive
"statutory damages". The minimum amount of
statutory damages that can be awarded for
copyright infringement is $750; and the
maximum is $30,000. If the infringement was
willful, the potential statutory damage award
is increased to $150,000 for each act of
infringement
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As educators you should make sure that you are
setting an example for your students.
 When presenting “borrowed” information point out
how you have given credit to the producer of said
information
 Incorporate rules and regulations with projects in
align with the copyright laws
 Hold students and yourself accountable
 Give credit where credit is due!
 The more you inform your students the better
aware they will be