Copyright in Education By Patrice Ramsay What is

Copyright in Education By: Patrice Ramsay

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 Copyright covers both published and unpublished works. � There is no such thing as international copyright law � � http: //www. copyright. gov/help/faqgeneral. html

What is copyright infringement? � The instance of using or reproducing someone's creative work without their permission � an infringer may be found guilty on criminal charges and have to pay criminal penalties. � the infringer will also be stopped from making any further use of the work.

The Classroom use exemption Title 17 of the United States Code. To qualify you must: � be in a classroom � Be there in person, engaged in face-to-face teaching activities. � Be at a nonprofit educational institution. * This exemption does not extend to reproducing or distributing materials

Classroom Exemption Under the classroom teaching exemption, all types of the following copyright-protected materials may be displayed and/or performed in the normal classroom environment. � Printed Materials: Book chapters as well as newspaper, magazine and academic journal articles � Musical Reproduction: Audio recordings of musical performances � Still Images: Visual images including photos, graphs, charts, diagrams, maps, slideshows, Power. Point's, etc. � Audio visual materials: Segments of TV shows, documentary films and movies, etc. illustrative of or related to course content

Fair use “legal defense” � someone other than the copyright owner may make limited use of a copyrighted work without permission for purposes such as teaching, research, scholarship, criticism, parody and news reporting. � Example: Quotation of excerpts in a review or criticism for purposes of illustration or comment.

Permission for classroom use � Students are able to use portions of copyrighted work in their academics, as long as they give proper credit and citations. � educators and students are advised to write for permission to use Internet resources. � Educators and students must credit sources, giving full bibliographic information when available.

Permission for classroom use cont. � Faculty may include portions of copyrighted works when producing their own multimedia project for their teaching in support of curriculum-based instructional activities at educational institutions.