COPYRIGHT AND FAIR USE IN A

DIGITAL AGE

By: Catherine Ernst

For use in High School or Higher Education

The Basics

Copyright law-

Specific laws stating what materials are protected by copyright

Allows for fair use

Only applies to tangible materials

What is Fair Use?

Allows for exceptions to copyright

Ex: Teachers may use copyrighted

materials BUT cannot share it freely with others.

Fair Use 4 Factors determine fair use

1. What is the character of use?

2. What is the nature of the work to be used?

3. How much of the work will you use?

4. What effect would the use have on the market for the original work?

Three Key Steps to Fair Use Limit TIME

Limit AMOUNT

Limit ACCESS

Who's the Owner?

If you cannot locate the owner…Search on the internet

Finding the owner is important because…You must give credit where credit is DUEYou must follow copyright law

Permission Granted! Do I need permission to use that material?

YES!

What do I do?

Ask the media specialist Write a letter to the owner of the material.

Intellectual Property

This is a gray area for most schools.

Intellectual property includes…

Anything that a person has created using the mind (WIPO)

EX: patents, inventions, artistic works, literary works, etc

Intellectual Property

IF you create course content for the web

A school/university may copyright materials

You may or may not be able to keep materials

Find out your university/institutions rules on this

Internet Sources

Read Terms of Use on web pages

Cite information if you use it

All internet sources sound be considered copyrighted

Remember…

You must ALWAYS cite sources

Create a citation page and cite in text

Do NOT pass of others’ work as your own

Get proper permission

Plagiarism

Copying works created by other people

Copyright infringement

Plagiarism carries severe consequences

Consequences for Students Zero credit on assignments

Expulsion from school

Expulsion from college

Legal action

Quick Quiz

Could this considered copyrighted material?

Citations Ko, S. S., & Rossen, S. (2010). Teaching online, a practical guide. (3 ed., pp. 227-

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Batson, T. (2008). Web 2.0, secondary orality, and the gutenberg parenthesis. Campus Technology, 1-2. Retrieved from http://campustechnology.com/articles/2008/03/web-20-secondary-orality-and-the-gutenberg-parenthesis.aspx

What is intellectual property?. (n.d.). Retrieved from http://www.wipo.int/about-ip/en/

Plagiarism faqs. (n.d.). Retrieved from http://www.plagiarism.org/plag_article_plagiarism_faq.html

Gunter, G. (2012). Retrieved from https://webcourses.ucf.edu/webct/cobaltMainFrame.dowebct?JSESSIONIDVISTA=jzTrPqQplyB7nk1Bn1CpDdHnG2p5xVJ9VdJSGZyJMjwvJvWGrtmd!-1342044840!nodef.cc.ucf.edu!80!-1!2014172487!nodeg.cc.ucf.edu!80!-1&appforward=/webct/urw/tp12994997983141.lc12719061571141/startFrameSet.dowebct?forward=studentCourseView.dowebct&lcid=12719061571141