21st Century Copyright for Education Copyright Law 21st Century Copyright for Education

True or False? I can play any copyrighted movie for my class as part of the ‘fair use in education’ part of a copyright. Schools can show a copyrighted movie in the auditorium or gym as long as they don’t charge admission.

True or False? I can pull any picture or video off the internet to use as long as I give credit to the author. I am responsible for the meeting copyright requirements for every webpage and wiki space I am maintaining.

True or False Uploading content to a file-sharing site like Youtube or Flickr implies release of copyright. Copyright expires after the author’s death. Intellectual property laws are currently changing.

Copyright Basics http://brhs.wikispaces.com/Mrs+Davis

Copyrightable Material Copyright extends to: Books Plays Movies Music Dances Radio & TV broadcasts Drawings & Depictions

Fair Use – Printed Material You can use up to 10% of a document/publication without infringing on its copyright for these reasons: Education Parody Review & News casting

Copyright protects your right to: produce copies or reproductions of the work and to sell those copies including, sometimes, electronic copies: import or export the work create derivative works (works that adapt the original work) perform or display the work publicly sell or assign these rights to others transmit or display by radio or video

Determining Fair Use the purpose and character of the use the nature of the copyrighted work the amount and substantiality of the portion used in relation to the copyrighted work as a whole the effect of the use upon the potential market for or value of the copyrighted work

Educational Fair Use An educator must be present The work must closely relate to the curricular goals The work cannot be reproducible.

21st century pitfalls & changes

Open-Source/Free Source Open source – software that is open to the public via the internet free of charge. Open source restrictions – any improvements or modifications to open source software must ALSO be made open source and therefore available to the public.

Open Source Examples: Audacity – a free sound recorder that allows for digital sound editing Open Office – application similar to and syncs with Microsoft Office Inkscape – Vector graphics editor (think Illustrator, CorelDraw) ClaSS – student tracking, reporting and info. management system

Beta Software Beta software – a ‘b’ version of software released to work problems out of a program before release to the mass public Participants who download a beta version are entitled to keep it indefinitely even if a copyrighted version is released later (unless the distributor specifically lists otherwise).

Wiki Sites Wiki – ‘wiki’ is Hawaiian for ‘fast’. A wiki is a website open for editing by all its members. The listed organizers and creators are accountable for maintaining copyright law on their wiki sites and, if need be, removing material that violates copyright law.

Social Networking/Blogging Even on private sites, publishing copyrighted material without permission is a copyright violation. When posting original material, list “all rights reserved” at the end of the entry. Parody or commentary are not subject to copyright, but ‘fan fiction’ is a violation unless the author releases permission.

Creative Commons Creative Commons -- provides free tools that let authors, scientists, artists, and educators easily mark their creative work with the freedoms they want it to carry. Users can use CC to change copyright terms from "All Rights Reserved" to "Some Rights Reserved."

Image Use Images are protected under original copyright law Any ‘significant change’ to an image removes its copyright as long as it doesn’t infringe on the market value of the image.

Original Copyright Violation Signifcant Change

Copyright Resources

Finding Copyright-free Images http://www.freephotosbank.com/ -- absolutely free, many landscapes www.openphoto.net – absolutely free, high res. pictures $0.20 http://www.openclipart.org/ -- clip art & created animation http://grin.hq.nasa.gov/ -- great images in NASA, high resolution

Finding Copyright-free Images http://digital.nypl.org/mmpco/ -- 30,000 digital images mostly pre-1923 prints & photos http://www.geekphilosopher.com/MainPage/photos.htm -- free but site requests a link to their page http://teachpol.tcnj.edu/amer_pol_hist/ -- public domain images focused around American Political history

Finding Copyright-free Sounds/Music http://www.ibiblio.org/mutopia/ -- free public domain music http://www.soundzabound.com/index.php -- royalty-free music for education, site registration required http://www.partnersinrhyme.com/midi/index.shtml -- royalty free music and sound effects

Finding Copyright-free Sounds/Music http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/Music/FREE.html -- royalty-free for downloading and embedding http://ccmixter.org/ -- mostly indie music produced under CC license http://www.opsound.org/index.php -- music and sound bytes listed by genera under CC license

Finding Copyright-free Videos http://www.apple.com/education/itunesu_mobilelearning/itunesu.html -- download (for small fee) university lectures http://www.blinkx.com/ -- 26 million hours of video. Download & embed http://www.researchchannel.org/prog/ -- 3,500 titles available, all educational

Finding Copyright-free Videos http://www.americanwriters.org/chapters/two.asp# -- videos on American writers http://www.kennedy-center.org/programs/millennium/archive.html#search – musical and arts performances http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/ -- library of congress webcasts