What Every Educator Should Know About opyright

Professional DevelopmentJanuary 28, 2012

Presented by: Priscilla Velez

Objectives

What is copyright?

Copyright law

Copyright-What is NOT

protected?

What is infringement?

Doctrine of Fair Use

What is Open Content?

Objectives (cont.)

Code of Best Practices

Five Principles-Code of Best

Practices

Educator’s Rights

Protect your Work

What 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 Copyright covers both published and unpublished works”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

Works Protected by Copyright

Copyright-What is NOT protected?

• ideas or concepts

• discoveries

• procedures

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

Copyright-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/

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 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-Code of Best Practices (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 Rights

The 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

Protect your Work

What are we teaching students about………

1. Copyright

2. Plagiarism

3. Fair use

4. Public Domain

5. 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 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.