Why It’s Important By Jamesha Outlaw

Copyrights are issued under civil law to help protect the originality of an author’s creative work. To use another individual’s work without giving them proper acknowledgement or credit can result in being sued by the author for infringement. Written works, music, dramatics, motion picture, sound recordings, multi-media can be protected by copyrights.

The term fair use is the exception to the rule of when it comes to copyright. It allows an individual to freely use a portion of another author’s creative works without permission for the purpose of commentary, criticism or parody. Students, teachers, staff and educational facilities are allowed to copy portions of materials under fair use

 Purpose & reasoning for use  Nature of the copyrighted work  Amount and substance of the portion being used  Effect of the use on the potential market/audience

Multi-media Presentation Copyright Limitations Portion of copyrighted works can be used with proper credit and citation  Up to 10% or 1000 words (text) which ever is less  Up to 10% but not more than 30 seconds of music or lyrics  Up to 10% or 3 minutes whichever is less from motion media (animation, video, film)  One photograph or illustration in its entirety. No more than 5 images by the same artist/photographer. No more than 10% or 15 images in a collection  Up to 10% or 2500 field/cell entries whichever is less from a database or data table

Can Use:  Complete poem if less that 250 words, except of not more than 250 words from longer poem  A complete article, short essay if less than 2500 words  10% or 1000 words of text whichever is less

ENTIRE POEM 250 WORDS OR LESSSHORT STORY 250 WORDS OR LESS Just Passing Through Light travels through light air through air Sometimes we travel through each other as if we weren’t there  Prize Rivals. Ann and Viv were rivals since their first day at school; wanting to sit on the same chair had started it. All through their school years and at college they vied to be number one in academic work and sports. Eventually, being competitive was less fun and they were almost like the best of friends. Except twice a year, at the Christmas fair and summer fete they battled it out to win the prize for the best cake. Often, when the results were announced they would say the prize goes jointly to the Jones twins Ann and VIv.

 Teacher can make copies of excerpt of sheet music provided excerpt is not the whole song, section or movement. No more than 10% of the whole work can be copied & only 1 copy per student.  Student can make a single recording of a performance of copyrighted music for evaluation or rehearsal purposed (teacher/school can keep the copy)

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 Recordings can be kept for 45 days, but can be used to instructional purposes during the first 10 days. After 10 days, the video can only be used to teacher evaluation purposed only. After 45 days recording should be erased or destroyed  If teacher wants to keep as part of their curriculum, then they need to ask permission to do so

 Determine if permission is needed  Identify owner  Identify Rights Needed  Contact the owner & negotiate whether payment is required  Have permission agreement documented in writing

Projects and multi-media posted on the internet can be accessed by others and subject to NOT BEING COVERED BY FAIR USE  Assume everything is protected  Read agreements on clip art, freeware or downloadable material  If notified of violation, remove illegal material and research claim against you  If in doubt, seek permission