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Copyright & Fair Use

Questions:

What general protections does U. S. copyright law give authors related to multimedia presentations and information appearing on the WWW?

  1. What is Fair Use and how does it apply to teachers in K-16 settings?  Provide specific examples and resources for teachers regarding Fair Use. 
  2. Which of these activities is prohibited or allowed based on U. S. copyright law?
    • Copying a graphic from a page on the WWW and pasting it into your own web site?
    • Linking to another person's WWW site?
    • Borrowing the html source code from someone else to design one's own web site?
    • Downloading music files and linking them to your web site?
    • Using student work on your web site?
  3. What guidelines should a teacher give students regarding what is/is not legal in designing multimedia presentations and WWW pages?
  4. What are some unresolved issues regarding U. S. copyright law and the creation of multimedia presentations and WWW pages?

 Resources for Copyright

(Here are some WWW sites to consult, you need not visit them all.  Feel free to locate other relevant sites)
Quiz

http://www.techlearning.com/db_area/archives/TL/2002/10/copyright.html
Text

Grabe & Grabe (2001).  Integrating the internet for meaningful learning. Boston:  Houghton Mifflin, chap. 9.
Additional Resources
  1. Copyright, Fair Use in the Classroom, on the Internet, and the World Wide Web http://www.umuc.edu/library/copy.html
  2. Center for Applied Ethics http://www.ethics.ubc.ca/resources/computer/topics.html
  3. “Copyright in a Digital World” http://www.sasinschool.com/resource/pages/ethread_copyright.shtml
  4. Copyright guidelines for educators http://www.ncsu.edu/midlink/posting.html
  5. Crash course in copyright (multiple links including Fair Use) http://www.utsystem.edu/ogc/intellectualproperty/cprtindx.htm
  6. Game for students explaining copyright http://www.stfrancis.edu/cid/copyrightbay/

  7. Fair use guidelines for educational multimedia http://www.adec.edu/admin/papers/fair10-17.html

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