Background image: Copyright & Fair Use for Curriculum Writing WELCOME! Go to bcpsodl.pbworks.combcpsodl.pbworks.com Click on Copyright & Fair Use Session Facilitator: Kelly Ray, Library Media Resource Teacher – Office of Digital Learning

Digital Cafe: Copyright & Fair Use for Curriculum Writing Professional learning objective: C & I staff and curriculum writers will be able to model and facilitate the legal and ethical use of copyrighted material in curriculum, instruction, and student-created works. Yes, it’s complicated … ODL Library Media team can help!

Why are notices like this posted at school photocopiers and duplicating machines?

Images: flic.kr/p/957WB9 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Redbox_Kiosk.jpg Do notices like this deter teachers or school staff from showing commercial videos in their entirety or as a reward/entertainment in school? thefbiwarningscreens.wikia.com

NO! Materials created by BCPS employees for curriculum and instruction are considered “works for hire.” BCPS owns the copyright. Can curriculum writers or teachers sell lessons and instructional materials they’ve created for use in BCPS curriculum or classrooms?

Do your curriculum writers model for students the ethical use of intellectual property by citing sources for legally used/copyright friendly images and media included in curriculum products? (PowerPoints, Discovery Boards, handouts, etc.)

When a curriculum unit involves students creating products to demonstrate their learning, are teaching & learning resources for ethical use of intellectual property and copyright compliance included?

Why curriculum writers, teachers and students are at risk for copyright infringement … We’re teaching. They’re learning. We can use whatever we want because it’s all fair use, right? Lack of enforcement or consequences. Lack of knowledge and understanding. Images: phillipmartin.info

Why teachers and students should understand copyright and fair use 1.BCPS has an official Copyright Rule to ensure legal and ethical use of copyrighted material by students and staff, and to protect the school system from copyright infringement liability. 2.Copyright infringement is more easily detected on the Web. 3.We encourage teachers & students to be content creators and publishers; they should know how to include the intellectual property of other creators in their own work legally and ethically.

Why teachers and students must understand copyright and fair use 4.We must model and teach digital citizenship in order to prepare globally competitive graduates for college, careers, and life. 5.As content consumers and creators, teachers and students should be informed about complying with copyright laws, respecting the intellectual property rights of others, sharing their own creative works, and protecting their own intellectual property rights. flic.kr/p/6bJSMe

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Some Actual BCPS Scenarios Use the resources on the Copyright & Fair Use resource page on ODL wiki to help you think about these scenarios and decide if each use of intellectual property is: Legal Use: Works from the public domain, used with permission, or used according to the copyright holder’s Terms of Use or Creative Commons license. *Works used according to copyright; no fair use determination needed. Fair Use: Copyrighted works where the use meets guidelines for all four Fair Use factors (an exception to copyright) Copyright Infringement: Copyrighted works used illegally-- without permission, not according to copyright-holder’s terms of use or license, or not in compliance with Fair Use guidelines. Image:

Scenario #1 DDL resource teacher Ben Wagner wanted to use the P21 logo on the ODL Resource wiki. Even though the copyright holder (Partnership for 21 st Century Skills) is a BCPS vendor partner, Ben decides to them to request permission to use the copyrighted logo. P21 gives BCPS permission to use the graphic on our wiki via . P21 logo Is this a legal use, fair use, or copyright infringement? Images:

Scenario #2 A curriculum writer found a West African Cinderella story retold by a folktale expert and published on the expert’s 365 Cinderellas blog. However, the blog site was blocked for students in school. So, the curriculum writer copied the text of the entire folktale from the blog page onto a Microsoft Word document for a lesson the BCPS One curriculum, providing a source citation on the document.West African Cinderella story Is this a legal use, fair use, or copyright infringement?

Scenario #3 A curriculum writer creates a PowerPoint featuring digital photos to illustrate Science concepts. The writer provides a citation below each photo. The URLs are quite long and all begin with The PowerPoint file will be included in a curriculum unit and posted on a BCPS One Lesson Tile for student access. Is this a legal use, fair use, or copyright infringement?

Scenario #5 Students in a middle school English class researched wild animals and created their own wiki pages including digital images from the Internet. These pages were so well done that their teacher linked them on the school’s public website for a wider audience to see. Students cited their information sources, but did not cite sources for the images they used; the images may be protected by copyright. Image: Is this a legal use, fair use, or copyright infringement?

Scenario #4 BCPS Elementary Lighthouse Schools created “Vision Videos” which they posted to their Edmodo group site. BCPS would like to post these on the BCPS public Website as well. Some schools used commercial, copyright-protected music in their videos (example).example Is this a legal use, fair use, or copyright infringement?

Scenario #5 A teacher and librarian had student partners “mash up” photos of themselves with photos from the Internet. They used these as the opening and closing images in a “Virtual Tour of the Serengeti” video created for a class research project. Student were taught to find images licensed by the copyright-holder with Creative Commons licenses allowing non-commercial re-use and re-mixing with attribution. The video was posted on the school library wiki for class viewing and public access, along the students’ Works Cited document. Is this a legal use, fair use, or copyright infringement?

Image: Sign.jpg See Creative Commons License Sign.jpg Image: le:Lionesses,_Masai_Mara,_Kenya.jpg le:Lionesses,_Masai_Mara,_Kenya.jpg See Creative Commons License StoryboardStoryboard VideoVideo

Scenario #6 Curriculum writers plan to have students create graphic novel adaptations of episodes from folktales or classic stories. Since original texts (in the public domain) are beyond most students' reading abilities, they decide to use video-recorded Read-Along books of some well known stories like Aladdin and Cinderella found on a Disney Vintage YouTube Channel. The YouTuber’s discussion posts mention that she’s had copyright issues with YouTube. Nevertheless, the curriculum writers include links to these YouTube videos in the curriculum lesson for teachers to show their students in class.Read-Along books YouTuber’s discussion posts Is this a legal use, fair use, or copyright infringement?

Scenario #7 Students researching the planets for Science class are creating multimedia projects including digital images. They find two websites with tons of planet photos, one published by NASA and the Cal Tech Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) and another published by the National Earth Science Teacher's Association (NESTA). The teacher and librarian direct students to locate and examine the copyright policies/terms of use for both Websites to determine if and how images may be used in student projects. The students carefully follow the terms of use for the images they have selected. Their projects are presented to the class and published on the school Web site for their parents to see.NASA and the Cal Tech Jet Propulsion LaboratoryNational Earth Science Teacher's Association Is this a legal use, fair use, or copyright infringement?

Scenario #8 Middle school students are reading the novel Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry in English class. Their teacher uses some brief clips from the movie Sounder to help students visualize the historical setting and other elements in the novel: the deep South in the 1930's, the Great Depression, sharecropping, segregated schools, Jim Crow laws, relations between white and African Americans, etc. Students complete an anticipation guide as they view the clips. The teacher is using a DVD borrowed from the public library.Sounder Is this a legal use, fair use, or copyright infringement? Images:

Some Best Practices Do not use copyrighted images in curriculum materials without permission. Use copyright-free or copyright- friendly media (public domain,.gov, Creative Commons licensed, used according to Terms of Use, by subscription) Check Terms of Use or Copyright Statements on Websites. Hyperlink rather than downloading or copying from Internet websites when appropriate (considering Ads). Worried about Ads on a website or website blocked for students? Check our databases for similar content. ALWAYS use attribution (credit the original source), even when using media legally (in the public domain, by subscription, with permission, according to Terms of Use or Creative Commons license, etc.) Remember that Google and Bing are never original source! Image:

Some Best Practices Do not download video or sound files from Websites, YouTube, etc. and post them in BCPS One without copyright holder’s permission. Check to see if YouTube videos are available elsewhere on the Web (School Tube, organization’s website) Do not use links in curriculum to sites like ViewPure, which take YouTube videos out of You Tube to strip out the ads and allow student access. When in doubt, seek permission from the copyright holder. Contact them via and use the BCPS Copyright Permission form. Image:

When you have a copyright or fair use question … Refer to resources on the Copyright & Fair Use page on ODL Resource bcpsodl.pbworks.com.bcpsodl.pbworks.com Still unsure? Contact a member of the ODL Library Media team: Kelly Ray – Resource Chimere Neal – Resource Amanda Lanza – Fran Glick - phillipmartin.info