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EDUCATION SERVICES

Copyright in the Classroom

Dr. Rose Martin

Director of Educationrmartin@blueridgepbs.org

Sheila Campbell Resources Manager scampbell@blueridgepbs.org

Copyright and your classroom

•What you can use

•How long you can use it

•How you can use it in your lessons

Based on: Title 17 of the U.S. Code Public Law 94-553, 1978

•Section 106: rights of copyright holders

•Section 107: fair use

•Section 110: classroom exemption for public performance and display

Source: Copyright,- Clearing Up Some MisconceptionsRandy Agee, Va. D.O.E.

Open Broadcast Programming

Local television stations

Do not require a commercial cable subscription to view

Examples: In Roanoke: 7, 10, 13, 15, 21/27, 38, 59

Legal Use of Open BroadcastsTeacher must record the program or

request in advance and in writing that the program be recorded (e.g. by a school media specialist)

The program must be used within 10 days and may only be used for teaching (not for entertainment)

The program may only be used once

Legal Use of Open Broadcasts

The program must be erased within 45 days

May not be given to another teacher who didn’t ask for it in advance.

What about cable?

• Most programs on PAY or PREMIUM channels are not available for classroom use, but some cable programming might have classroom rights. Check with your Cable in the Classroom representative!

Q. Can I rent videos for classroom use?

A: Yes, but….•It must be used by the teacher who rents it

•It must be used in face-to-face teaching (not entertainment)

•It cannot be part of a public performance

But who is ever going to know?But who is ever going to know?

Conviction on copyright infringement can carry up to a

$20,000.00 fine!

So how am I supposed to use Instructional Video as a

Classroom Tool?

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So how am I supposed to use video as an instructional tool?

Our Instructional Television is here for

YOU!

Unlike most television broadcasts, our ITV

programs come with full taping rights for teachers.

Copyright and Taping Rights

Year to Year Tape and Keep Rights

Tape and Keep Rights One Year From Broadcast (PBS)

Tape and Keep Rights for Life of Tape

Tape and Keep Rights in Perpetuity

Duplication Rights/No Duplication Rights

Unrestricted Use for Educational Purposes

Types of Rights

Tape Speed: SP vs. EP

One Series Per Tape: Keeping your library organized

Block Feeding: Makes taping easier

Tape Labels: Program, Episode numbers, Record date

Get Help with Taping: Students, Parents, Co-workers

Tips for Taping

Who to call:

(540) 344-0991 ext. 1765or

888-332-7788

scampbell@blueridgepbs.org

Requesting Programs

Have the series title and episode number ready, if you can!

First Come, First Served

Requesting Programs

Multimedia Copyright

Evolving annually but the current guidelines are:

Motion media: Up to 10% or 3 minutes, whichever is less, in the aggregate.

Text: Up to 10% or 1000 words, whichever is less, in the aggregate

Music, lyrics, and music video: Up to 10%, but in no event more than 30 seconds, of the music and lyrics from an individual musical

work (or in the aggregate of extracts from an individual work.)

• Photographs and illustrations: An entire work may be used but no more than 5 images by an artist or photographer, and no more than 10% or 15 images, whichever is less, from a published collective work.

• Copyrighted database or data table: Up to 10% or 2500 field entries (items of information in a record of a database, such as name or social security number) or cell entries (intersections where a row and column meet on a spreadsheet), whichever is less.

• Computer programs: Beyond the scope of the guidelines.

Enriching people’s lives by providing educational, informational and cultural

programming that fills a unique role as a positive and lifelong resource for the

communities we serve.http://www.pbs.org/teachersource/copyright/copyright.shtm