What Every Educator Should Know About opyright Professional Development
January 28, 2012 Presented by: Priscilla
Velez
Objectives
What is copyright?Copyright lawCopyright-What is NOT protected?What is infringement?Doctrine of Fair Use What is Open Content?
Objectives (cont.)
Code of Best PracticesFive Principles-Code of Best PracticesEducator’s RightsProtect your WorkWhat are we Teaching our Students
What is copyright?“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 Copyright covers both published and unpublished works”
Source: http://www.copyright.gov/help/faq/faq-general.html
Copyright law• Work originally created and published
in the United States before 1923
• Work originally created in the United States before March, 1, 1989 without copyright notice
• Work published in the United States before 1964 without copyright renewal
What is NOT protected?
• ideas or concepts• discoveries • procedures
Source: http://www.ipos.gov.sg/leftNav/cop/About+Copyright.htm
What is NOT protected (cont.)?• methods
• works or other subject matter that have not been made in a tangible form
• subject matter which is not of original authorship
Source: http://www.ipos.gov.sg/leftNav/cop/About+Copyright.htm
What is infringement?Infringement occurs when copyrighted work is:
• reproduced• distributed• performed
Source: http://www.copyright.gov/help/faq/faq-definitions.html
What is infringement (cont.)?Infringement occurs when copyrighted work is:
• publicly displayed• or made into a derivative work
without the permission of the copyright owner
Source: http://www.copyright.gov/help/faq/faq-definitions.html
Doctrine of Fair Use§ 107: Fair Use “various purposes for which the reproduction of a particular work may be considered fair, such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, and research”
- -Section 107
Copyright Act of 1976
Doctrine of Fair Use cont.“Copyright protects the particular way authors
have expressed themselves. It does not
extend to any ideas, systems, or factual
information conveyed in a work.”
What is Open Content?Open content, “is licensed in a manner that provides
users with the right to make more kinds of uses
than those normally permitted under the law- at no cost to the user”.Source: http://opencontent.org/definition/
Code of Best PracticesThis code of best practices, that consists of 5 principles
was created to assist educator’s in K–12 education,
higher education, and in classes given by nonprofit
organizations and they apply to all forms of media.
Source: http://www.centerforsocialmedia.org/fair-use/related-materials/codes/code-best-practices-fair-use-media-literacy-education
Five Principles-Code Best PracticesEducators are able to:1.Use copyrighted material in media literacy.2.Employ copyrighted material in preparing curriculum. 3.Share media literacy curriculum.Source: http://www.centerforsocialmedia.org/fair-use/related-materials/codes/code-best-practices-fair-use-media-literacy-education
Five Principles-(cont.)Students are able to:4. Student use of copyrighted materials in their own academic and creative work.
5.Developing audiences for student work.
Source: http://www.centerforsocialmedia.org/fair-use/related-materials/codes/code-best-practices-fair-use-media-literacy-education
Educator’s RightsThe Teach Act permits
teachers and students of accredited, nonprofit
educational institutions to transmit performances and
displays of copyrighted works as part of a course if certain
conditions are met. Source: http://copyright.lib.utexas.edu/teachact.html
Educator’s Rights (cont.)Educator’s may use:
–print material–images –web sites–moving-image media–sound media
Source: http://copyright.lib.utexas.edu/teachact.html
What are we teaching students about…
1. Copyright2. Plagiarism3. Fair use4. Public Domain5. Creative Commons
We have the opportunity to help teach
students their rights and responsibilities
when using technology.
Resources• Education WorldDistrict Liability and Teaching
Responsibility: Part 5 of a Series on Copyright and Fair Use http://www.educationworld.com/a_curr/curr280e.shtml
• Copyright Iconhttp://www.iconarchive.com/show/torrent-icons-by-aha-soft/copyright-icon.html
• Copyright Definitions http://www.copyright.gov/help/faq/faq-definitions.html
• Copyright Basics http://www.copyright.gov/circs/circ1.pdf
• Mimi and Eunice http://mimiandeunice.com/
Resources Continued• Copyright and Digital Images
http://www.jiscdigitalmedia.ac.uk/stillimages/advice/copyright-and-digital-images/
• Copyright Crash Course http://copyright.lib.utexas.edu/• The code of best Practices in fair use for Media Literacy Education
http://www.centerforsocialmedia.org/fair-use/related-materials/codes/code-best-practices-fair-use-media-literacy-education
• Copyright and Fairuse Guidelines for Teachershttp://www.techlearning.com/techlearning/pdf/events/techforum/tx05/TeacherCopyright_chart.pdf
• Macleods, K. (2011). Toccata and Fugue in D Minor mp3. Retrieved fromhttp://incompetech.com/m/c/royalty-free/index.html?genre=Classical&page=3