1. The Rules and the Tools Copyright & Copyleft
NMUSD Adult School Tech Training
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3. Agenda What is Copyright? What is Fair Use? (page 19)
Copyright Law of the United States
What is Fair Use? (page 19)
What is Copyleft?
What are Creative Commons?
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4. Objectives
Participants will be able to define the “rules” of Copyright, Fair Use, Copyleft, and Creative Commons
Participants will be able to find copyleft & creative commons “tools”
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5. Copyright and Fair Use Copyright Law of the United States
Fair Use (copyright.gov)
Copyright & Fair Use (stanford.edu)
Code of Best Practices in Fair Use for Media Literacy Education (pdf)
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6. Code of Best Practices
“Fair use is the right to use copyrighted material without permission or payment under some circumstances.”
Code of Best Practices in Fair Use
for Media Literacy Education
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7. Copyright Act Section 110
110. Limitations on exclusive rights: Exemption of certain performances and displays43
… the following are not infringements of copyright:
(1) performance or display of a work by instructors or pupils in the course of face-to-face teaching activities of a nonprofit educational institution, in a classroom or similar place devoted to instruction, unless, in the case of a motion picture or other audiovisual work, the performance, or the display of individual images, is given by means of a copy that was not lawfully made under this title, and that the person responsible for the performance knew or had reason to believe was not lawfully made;
Code of Best Practices in Fair Use
for Media Literacy Education
4/6/2019
M. Rankin

8. Copyright & Current Climate
“Close classroom doors and hide what they fear is infringement
Hyper-comply with imagined rules that are far stricter than the law requires, limiting the effectiveness of their teacher and students’ learning.”
Code of Best Practices in Fair Use
for Media Literacy Education
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M. Rankin

9. Fair Use & Education Outside the marketplace Classroom Conference
School-wide or district-wide festival
Code of Best Practices in Fair Use
for Media Literacy Education
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10. Bargain
We as a society give limited property rights to creators to encourage them to produce culture;
We give other creators the chance to use that same copyrighted material, without permission or payment, in some circumstances.
Without the bargain, we could lose important new cultural work.
Code of Best Practices in Fair Use
for Media Literacy Education
4/6/2019
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11. Fair Use
Did the unlicensed use “transform” the material by using it for a different purpose?
Was the material taken appropriate in kind and amount?
Code of Best Practices in Fair Use
for Media Literacy Education
4/6/2019
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12. Copyleft http://timac.wikispaces.com/Copyleft
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13. Creative Commons http://search.creativecommons.org/
Watch video Creative Commons - Copyright Solution
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14. Photos http://www.freedigitalphotos.net/
Google Custom Search (copyright free, image appropriate)
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