1. Information You Must Know About the Copyright Law as an Educator
Copyright and You
Information You Must Know About the Copyright Law as an Educator
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Presentation adapted from LGHS media center

2. What is Copyright?
Copyright is a property right granted to authors, the purpose of which is to advance the public welfare by promoting artistic and scientific progress. Creations are considered Intellectual Property.
All works are eligible. Only ideas and thought are not eligible for copyright.

3. Why do I need to know about this?
You can be fined $750 to $30,000 per infringement. If it is proven that the law was broken with willful intent, the penalty may be raised to $150,000.

4. Copyright and Educators
Educators have the right to perform or display copyrighted works in the classroom for the purpose of face to face instruction.
Educators do not have the right to perform or display copyrighted materials for entertainment or to reward a class.
All performances and displays must have instructional goals and outcomes.

5. Photocopying: single copies Teacher/Classroom use
A chapter of a book
An article from a periodical or newspaper
A short story, short essay, or short poem of 250 words or less
A chart, diagram, cartoon, or picture from a book, periodical, or newspaper.

6. Photocopying: multiple copies teacher/classroom use
A complete poem if less that 250 words
An excerpt from a longer poem, not to exceed 250 words
A complete article, story or essay of less than 2500 words
Excerpt from a larger article, story or essay not to exceed 2500 words or 10% of the whole, whichever is less
One chart, graph, diagram, picture per book or periodical issue
Special works containing prose, poetry and illustrations, but limited to no more than 10% of the total.

7. Limits to preceding photocopying: teacher/classroom use
Copying is made for one course only
One work from a single author
No more than 3 authors from a collective work
No more than 9 instances of multiple copying in one term
Copying does not replace or substitute for anthologies
Same item not reproduced term to term
No charge is made to students beyond actual photocopy cost
No copying of consumable works, i.e. workbooks, standardized tests, etc.

8. Videotaping for Classroom use: Off air taping |Satellite / cable
Requires permission of copyright holder
Permissible when copyright holder offers rights (ex. C-span)
Programs may be taped from cable that may also be received on local open air broadcast stations.
Payment of appropriate fees for broadcasts, if applicable
Programs must be used directly for instruction
Program may be kept 45 days,must be used in the first 10 days.
Taping is done only at request of teacher
Program may not be edited

9. Using videotapes: “Home use only” On closed-circuit
Purchased videos may be used for direct instruction only, not entertainment
Rental videos are treated the same
Libraries may acquire and loan videos
Videos purchased by the school with closed circuit rights
Simultaneous transmission of live broadcasts
Most instructional programs purchased from instructional production companies
Most programs provided by state department of education or library boards

10. Off-air Videotaping Guidelines
Off-air means delivered thru antenna, not cable…not satellite, i.e. CBS, NBC, ABC, PBS
Rights are only for educational institutions, not individuals
Programs may be held for 45 days, and must be shown within the first 10 days
Program may be recorded once only for the same teacher
Copyright notice on the recorded program must appear
Advertising may be edited, but nothing in the content can be changed or altered.
Taping occurs only at request of an individual teacher

11. Computer Software Guidelines
All computer programs must be legitimate copies
Copies cannot be made, given or received
You may make adaptations to a program in order for it to work on your hardware configuration
It is permissible to make one archival copy or stored preservation copy
A license must be obtained and filed for each instance of use of a program in a building.

12. Multimedia Production Fair Use Guidelines
Student multimedia production:
Product may be displayed only in the course
Students may produce a product to meet a course requirement.
May be used in a Portfolio as evidence of academic work.
Educators multimedia productions:
May be used as an instructional device on producing multimedia
Must deal with curriculum-based instruction
May not be published on the Internet, but may be used on a LAN
May be kept up to 2 years, no more than 2 copies may be made

13. Multimedia Portion Limitations from various sources
Motion media – 10% or 3 minutes per use, once per semester
Text – 10% or 1000 words, whichever is less
Poem – a poem or excerpt of 250 words or less, no more than 3 excerpts from a single poet
Musical – Not more than 10%or 30 seconds in clip length
Illustrations or photographs – 15 images, no more than 5 from a single artist
Numerical data sets – limited to no more that 2500 fields

14. Copyright Guidelines for the Internet
ASSUME that ALL materials on the Internet are copyright protected!
Fair use guidelines pertain to all Internet materials
Properly cite all Internet resources according to a style guide such as MLA, APA, etc.
Anything, i.e. web page, published to the Internet is automatically copyrighted
Web capturing software, i.e. Web Whacker, used in the course of face to face instruction is permissible

15. Online Sources: Copyright
Copyright Information of Interest to Educators:
The US Copyright office
The Stanford University guide

16. Questions ?
If you have questions related to copyright, see Casie McDowell in the Library Media Center.