Professional Development

January 28, 2012 Presented by: Priscilla

Velez

A Guide to What Every Educator Should Know

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The following presentation is for information purposes only and represents my research

and my limited understanding of copyright laws.

Objectives• What is copyright?• Copyright Law• Copyright-What is NOT

Protected?• What is Infringement?• Doctrine of Fair Use • What is Open Content?• Code of Best Practices• Five Principles-Code of Best

Practices• Educator’s Rights• Protect your Work• What are we Teaching our

Students

• Identify Copyright Infringement

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 Copyright covers both published and unpublished works”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

Works Protected

By Copyright

Copyright-What is NOT Protected?• ideas or concepts (business idea or a concept)• discoveries (research finding that has not been known

before)• procedures (steps involved when applying for a travel

visa)• methods (unique solution to a mathematical problem)• works or other subject matter that have not been made

in a tangible form in a recording or writing a speech or a dance that has not been written or recorded

• subject matter which is not of original authorship (works which contain information in the public domain)

Source: http://www.ipos.gov.sg/leftNav/cop/About+Copyright.htm

What is Infringement?Infringement occurs when copyrighted work is: • reproduced• distributed• performed• 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

“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.

–Reuse –Revise –Remix –Redistribute

Source: http://opencontent.org/definition/

Code of Best Practices

This 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 of Best Practices

Educators are able to:1. Using copyrighted material in media literacy.2. Employing copyrighted material in preparing

curriculum. 3. Sharing media literacy curriculum.

Students are able to:3. Student use of copyrighted materials in their

own academic and creative work.4. 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.

Educator’s may use: • print material• images • web sites• moving-image media• sound media

Source: http://copyright.lib.utexas.edu/teachact.html

Protect your Work

What are we teaching Students about………

• Copyright• Plagiarism• Fair use• Public Domain• 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

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 Educationhttp://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

Reflections, Questions, Concerns,

Ideas, Arguments?

Thank you all for attending.