1. A Guide to What Every
Educator Should Know
About opyright
Professional Development
January 28, 2012
Presented by: Priscilla Velez

2. The following presentation is for
information purposes only and
represents my research and my
limited understanding of
copyright laws.

3. Objectives
What is copyright?
Copyright law
Copyright-What is NOT protected?
What is infringement?
Doctrine of Fair Use
What is Open Content?

4. Objectives (cont.)
Code of Best Practices
Five Principles-Code of Best Practices
Educator’s Rights
Protect your Work
What are we Teaching our Students

5. What is copyright?
“copyright is a form of
protection grounded in the U.S.
Constitution and granted by
law for original works of
authorship fixed in a tangible
medium of expression.
Copyright covers both
published and unpublished
works”
Source: http://www.copyright.gov/help/faq/faq-general.html

6. Copyright law
• Work originally created and published
in the United States before 1923
• Work originally created in the United
States before March, 1, 1989 without
copyright notice
• Work published in the United States
before 1964 without copyright renewal

7. Works Protected
By Copyright

8. Copyright-What is NOT protected?
• ideas or concepts
• discoveries
• procedures
Source: http://www.ipos.gov.sg/leftNav/cop/About+Copyright.htm

9. Copyright-What is NOT protected (cont.)?
• methods
• works or other subject matter
that have not been made in a
tangible form
• subject matter which is not of
original authorship
Source: http://www.ipos.gov.sg/leftNav/cop/About+Copyright.htm

10. What is infringement?
Infringement occurs when copyrighted
work is:
• reproduced
• distributed
• performed
Source: http://www.copyright.gov/help/faq/faq-definitions.html

11. What is infringement (cont.)?
Infringement occurs when copyrighted
work is:
• publicly displayed
• or made into a derivative work
without the permission of the
copyright owner
Source: http://www.copyright.gov/help/faq/faq-definitions.html

12. Doctrine of Fair Use
§ 107: Fair Use “various purposes for
which the reproduction of a particular
work may be considered fair, such as
criticism, comment, news reporting,
teaching, scholarship, and research”
- -Section 107
Copyright Act of 1976

13. Doctrine of Fair Use cont.
“Copyright protects the
particular way authors have
expressed themselves. It does
not extend to any ideas,
systems, or factual information
conveyed in a work.”

14. What is Open Content?
Open content, “is licensed in a
manner that provides users
with the right to make more
kinds of uses than those
normally permitted under the
law- at no cost to the user”.
Source: http://opencontent.org/definition/

15. Open Content…….
–reuse
–revise
–remix
–redistribute
Source: http://opencontent.org/definition/

16. Code of Best Practices
This code of best practices, that
consists of 5 principles was
created to assist educator’s in
K–12 education, higher
education, and in classes given
by nonprofit organizations and
they apply to all forms of media.
Source: http://www.centerforsocialmedia.org/fair-use/related-materials/codes/code-best-practices-fair-use-media-literacy-education

17. Five Principles-Code of Best Practices
Educators are able to:
1.Use copyrighted material in media
literacy.
2.Employ copyrighted material in
preparing curriculum.
3.Share media literacy curriculum.
Source: http://www.centerforsocialmedia.org/fair-use/related-materials/codes/code-best-practices-fair-use-media-literacy-education

18. Five Principles-Code of Best Practices (cont.)
Students are able to:
4. Student use of copyrighted materials
in their own academic and creative
work.
5. Developing audiences for student
work.
Source: http://www.centerforsocialmedia.org/fair-use/related-materials/codes/code-best-practices-fair-use-media-literacy-education

19. Educator’s Rights
The Teach Act permits teachers
and students of accredited,
nonprofit educational institutions
to transmit performances and
displays of copyrighted works as
part of a course if certain
conditions are met.
Source: http://copyright.lib.utexas.edu/teachact.html

20. Educator’s Rights (cont.)
Educator’s may use:
–print material
–images
–web sites
–moving-image media
–sound media
Source: http://copyright.lib.utexas.edu/teachact.html

23. Protect your Work

24. What are we teaching students about………
1. Copyright
2. Plagiarism
3. Fair use
4. Public Domain
5. Creative Commons

25. We have the opportunity to help teach
students their rights and responsibilities
when using technology.

26. Resources
• Education WorldDistrict Liability and Teaching
Responsibility: Part 5 of a Series on Copyright and Fair
Use
http://www.educationworld.com/a_curr/curr280e.shtml
• Copyright Iconhttp://www.iconarchive.com/show/torrent-
icons-by-aha-soft/copyright-icon.html
• Copyright Definitions
http://www.copyright.gov/help/faq/faq-definitions.html
• Copyright Basics
http://www.copyright.gov/circs/circ1.pdf

27. Resources Continued
• Copyright and Digital
Imageshttp://www.jiscdigitalmedia.ac.uk/stillimages/ad
vice/copyright-and-digital-images/
• Copyright Crash Course http://copyright.lib.utexas.edu/
• The code of best Practices in fair use for Media Literacy
Educationhttp://www.centerforsocialmedia.org/fair-
use/related-materials/codes/code-best-practices-fair-use-
media-literacy-education
• Copyright and Fairuse Guidelines for
Teachershttp://www.techlearning.com/techlearning/pdf/
events/techforum/tx05/TeacherCopyright_chart.pdf

28. Reflections, Questions, Concerns,
Ideas, Arguments?
Thank you all for attending.