Copyright & Fair Use Presentation
Valerie Morris
FRIT 7335

Copyright

• Most published items are subject to copyright laws.
• This includes films, books, art, video games, music, and web pages

Fair Use

• As educators, we sometimes can work around copyrights because of "fair use" policies.
• However, we are not entitled to access and distribute media as we please just because we are educators.
• We must follow the rules!

Fair Use

• It should be assumed that anything that is not in the public domain and does not have a creative commons license is subject to copyright.
• However, this does not mean we educators can't use anything..

Fair Use

• We are generally allowed to use a portion of a published work for educational purposes
• (Ex: 30 sec music clip, short excerpt from a film, or a chapter from a book, etc

Fair Use

• We are now allowed to distribute the entirety of a published work without explicit permission from the creator of the work. (Unless the work is part of the public domain)
• When it doubt, it is best to ask for permission! (and not end up in court)

Creative Commons License

• According to creativecommons.org: "All Creative Commons licenses have many important features in common. Every license helps creators — we call them licensors if they use our tools — retain copyright while allowing others to copy, distribute, and make some uses of their work — at least non-commercially."
• All Creative Commons licenses have many important features in common. Every license helps creators — we call them licensors if they use our tools — retain copyright while allowing others to copy, distribute, and make some uses of their work — at least non-commercially.

Creative Commons

• Essentially, Creative Commons allows the creators of content to share their content with others, while still retaining ownership of said content.

Creative Commons

• It is very easy to do a google search for material published under the creative commons license.
• It is still important to reference the owners of the published material.

Fair Use or Creative Commons

• Whether or not we use fair use or creative commons in our classroom, it is important that we follow the rules and respect the intellectual propery rights of others!