WHAT EDUCATORS NEED TO KNOW ABOUT FAIR USE AND COPYRIGHT

Anna Baker

EME 5207: Designing Technology-Rich

Curricula► Educational Fair Use

and Copyright Presentation

Code of Best Practices in Fair Use for Media Literacy Education is based on five main

principles:

1. EMPLOYING COPYRIGHTED MATERIAL IN MEDIA LITERACY LESSONS

2. EMPLOYING COPYRIGHTED MATERIAL IN PREPARINGCURRICULUM MATERIALS

3. SHARING MEDIA LITERACY CURRICULUM MATERIALS

4. STUDENT USE OF COPYRIGHTED MATERIALS IN THEIR OWN ACADEMIC AND CREATIVE WORK

5. DEVELOPING AUDIENCES FOR STUDENT WORK

Fair Use Defined:

• Fair use is the right to use copyrighted material without permission or payment under some circumstances.

Media Literacy Education

• Media Literacy plays a huge role in developing critical thinking and communication skills

What does this mean for educators?

We must use and share media to increase those critical thinking and communication skills

Key Questions to ask:

– “Did the unlicensed use “transform” the material taken from the copyrighted work by using it for a different purpose than that of the original, or did it just repeat the work for the same intent and value as the original?”

– “Was the material taken appropriate in kind and amount, considering the nature of the copyrighted work and the use?”

How would you have answered?

-Answers of “yes” would be considered Fair Use

Creative Commons

Creative Commons is an organization that offers free legal tools to enable the use of a wide variety of images. Creative Commons offers licenses to give varying levels of permission based on your choice. Publishing work under the Creative Commons license protects the people who might use the work as long as they follow the conditions you have set up for them. Besides the publishing benefits offered by Creative Commons it also offers creative works that can used to supplement lessons or other creative pieces. The works include videos, images, academic supplements and more. Creative Commons serves as a way to balance copyright laws and the vast world of the Internet.

FlickR (http://www.flickr.com/):

• FlickR by Yahoo was developed for two purposes:

1. Making photos available to others2. Serves a place to organize photos

and videos

FlickR and Creative Commons

• FlickR and Creative Commons work together to share pictures/videos that have the appropriate licensing for educators to utilize what is found under specific search tags.

• Simple Steps to follow:-Click on the search button-Click on advanced Search (to find images licensed by Creative Commons)-Click on filters that will give you images that do not deal with Fair Use-Authors might want you to give them credit if you use their image

Websites to View:

The Code of Best Practices in Fair Use for Media Literacy Education (http://online.education.ufl.edu/file.php/4742/05DigitalCitizen/CodeofBestPracticesinFairUse.pdf ):  Copyright in the K-12 Classroom (http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/Teachers/copyrightlaw.html):  Creative Commons (http://creativecommons.org/):  A Shared Culture (http://creativecommons.org/videos/a-shared-culture): Different Licensing Option (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/): FlickR (http://www.flickr.com/): FlickR and Creative Commons (http://www.screencast.com/users/KaraD/folders/Jing/media/7233f311-59f7-46e6-9c8a-8feb42803f60):