As
educators we have a much greater responsibility to fully understand
copyright laws and resources. Misuse of copyrighted materials can
result in a lawsuit. There are many things in a teacher’s daily life
that can be affected by copyright issues. This can affect things as
simple as handouts shared online or distributed in class, to movies and videos being played. Using the fair use checklist
will help an educator to determine if they are covered under fair use.
The fair use checklist considers purpose, nature, amount and effect of
the use. Roughly speaking copying 1/10th of the work is covered.
Another key issue to consider is will the use affect the revenue
stream? In other words, is the author losing out on any money because
of the usage.
When looking for free images look for Creative Commons licenses or visit http://www.flickr.com/commons, but ensure to include a reference to the author. Google images has an advanced search option that allows specification of the usage rights of the images returned in the search. The TEACH Act is another important resource to consider as well. Another valuable resource is http://creativecommons.org/. This has an excellent resource for licensing your own work. Blackboard has an agreement that allows linking to YouTube, Flickr, and Slideshare without gaining additional permission, but this may not be the case in your classroom, so be sure to check. The “Copyright Dos and Don’ts” .pdf file in the library guide for ETEC 3310 has an excellent list of resources, most of which were previously mentioned. There are more links in my notes from this session as well.
This presentation was no doubt useful to us and our future as educators. We have a great responsibility and now we have great resourse to help us navigate through the do's and don't of copyrights at our fingertips.
ReplyDeleteThat fair check list list is absolutely amazing! A must for every educator to have in their classroom. In this day of age technology makes it so easy for us to grab and go and not take into consideration copyright issues. I personally think that we should have a more dedicated class on copyright issues because this is such an important topic and everyone can fall pray to this! This was an awesome post because it had so much information on it.
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