Volume 1, Issue 1 03/05/2012

PICKENS HIGH SCHOOL TECHNOLOGY BYTE

Copyright in the ?? Classroom ??

EXAMPLE The following guidelines apply to the use of clip art from Microsoft.com 1. You may use clip art in your school assignments and projects. 2. You may use clip art in your church brochure. 3. You may use clip art for personal, noncommercial uses. 4. You may not use clip art to advertise your business. 5. You may not use clip art to create a company logo. 6. You may not use clip art to illustrate the chapters of a book. http://www.microsoft.c om/About/Legal/EN/U S/IntellectualProperty/P ermissions/Default.asp x#ELC

How do we know when copyright applies to using materials in education?

A great deal of information is protected by copyright laws. Educators are under the misapprehension that they are exempt from copyright laws because of the fair use policy. However, contrary to popular belief, there is no blanket exception under copyright law for education uses of that information. Fair use qualifies under copyright law based on 4 factors:

How the work is being used Nonprofit, teaching, and research uses generally are allowed, whereas commercial uses are NOT. The nature of the work . The use of published or nonfiction work is favored over the use of unpublished or fictional work, because the author in the latter case did not agree to share the work publicly. The amount and substance of the work used.So using large portions of a work or a key point of a work is not permitted. The effect of the use of the work. So, if the use of the work reflects negatively on that work, it is not allowed.

There is a great deal of information about copyright and the Internet. So, if you have questions, please ask. Well find the answers together!
Bissonette, A. (2009). Cyber law maximizing safety and minimizing risk in classrooms. Thousand Oaks, CA: Corwin. Elisa Long PHS, Instructional Technology