Audience: Educators

Copyright Laws

• Protect the copyright owner’s work

• Regulate how the work is used

• Pursue compensation if desired

(Green & Brown, 2018)

Copyright and Fair Use

• Copyright laws are complex

• Give attributions to the authors

• The safest side is to ask the owner for permission(Green & Brown, 2018)

Fair Use

U.S. legal doctrine to use unlicensed copyrighted-protected work. Four factors:

• Purpose of use

• Nature of the work used

• Amount it was used

• Effects on the market value(Green & Brown, 2018)

Open Educational Resource

• Document and media are freely to use on internet

• Copyright laws applies

• Caution should be considered to use, create, or modify(Green & Brown, 2018)

Public Domain Images

• Less restrictions than Creative Commons

• No rights on public domain works

• Free to use them(Green & Brown, 2018)

Scenario One

A teacher assigns a project to her students and asks them to:

• use images from the internet on the project

• use a software to change the images for their project.

Are they allowed to do that?

Response Scenario One

• Fair use case

• Students will not post the project publically

• The changes to the original images should be documented

• Students should cite the owners work

Scenario Two

Teachers bought material on Teachers Pay Teachers. They wanted to use the

material of images on students projects.

• Are they licensed to use the material?

Response to Scenario Two

• Teachers should be careful because some material on the site Teachers Pay

Teachers are licensed and others are not.

• Some of the material may be violating copyright laws.

Scenario Three

Educators desire to use some images from the internet with the Creative Commons

tags on the images. They wanted to use the images on several projects.

• Is this permissible?

Response to Scenario Three

• Creative Commons license should be checked before someone uses them.

• They are not automatically free to be used.

• Creative Common materials may have different type of licenses.

Reference

Green, T. D., & Brown, A. (2018). The educator's guide to producing new media and

open educational resources. Routledge.

Questions?