1. AUP, Netiquette, Copyright & Fair Use Wilkes University – Internet Literacy for Educators Cathy W. Dowd Spring 2009

2. AUP An acceptable use policy is a set of rules applied by network and website owners which restrict the ways in which the network or site may be used. AUP documents are written for corporations, businesses, universities, schools, internet service providers, and website owners often to reduce the potential for legal action that may be taken by a user, and often with little prospect of enforcement.

3. AUP It is often common practice to ask new members of an organization to sign an AUP before they are given access to its information systems. For this reason, an AUP must be concise and clear, while at the same time covering the most important points about what users are, and are not, allowed to do with the IT systems of an organization.

4. Netiquette "Netiquette" is network etiquette, the do's and don'ts of online communication. Netiquette covers both common courtesy online and the informal "rules of the road" of cyberspace. Manners do count! Adhere to the same standards of behavior online that you follow in real life  Be ethical

5. Netiquette Know where you are in cyberspace  Netiquette varies from domain to domain  Rules for discussion groups Know what you are talking about – boasting Swearing is never acceptable Share expert knowledge  The strength of cyberspace is in its numbers Respect other people's privacy Be forgiving of other people's mistakes

6. Copyright Issues The best sources of images and video for your projects are the ones you create yourself. Images you find using GOOGLE or YAHOO image searches may be protected under copyright law. Find/search authentic images and for images to use in multimedia projects. Copyright applies fully and automatically to any work -- a photograph, a song, a web page, an article, pretty much any form of expression -- the moment it is created. This means that if you want to copy and re-use a creative work you find online, you usually have to ask the author's permission. THEREFORE when you create any work, you need to be aware of copyright issues.

7. Fair Use The fair use of a copyrighted work for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching (including multiple copies for classroom use), scholarship, or research, is not an infringement of copyright. In determining whether the use made of a work in any particular case is a fair use the factors to be considered shall include  the purpose and character of the use, including whether the use is commercial or nonprofit  the nature of the use  the amount of the use  the effect of the use on the potential market for the copyrighted work

8. Fair Use Today, courts’ analysis of fair use issues tend to center on the question:  Is the use “transformative?” Content creators need to consider what value their new work is contributing to the copyrighted material and whether their use is for a purpose different from that for which it originally was intended. The idea of "transformativeness" involves modifying material, putting material in a new context, or both.

9. Responsible Digital Citizens Stay safe -- but we cannot make the internet completely safe Be aware of online threats and harassment (cyberbullying) Plagiarism Piracy of music, movies and software Credit card fraud and identity theft Be aware of child pornography and sending/receiving unwanted solicitations for sex Our students need to know what to do