COPYRIGHT 101 The basics

What is Copyright?  A copyright gives the author certain exclusive rights to their work for a limited time  Almost everything created privately and originally after April 1, 1989 is copyrighted and protected whether it has a notice or not

What rights does the author have?  The right to make copies of their work  The right to distribute copies of their work  The right to display their copyrighted work publicly

What is Fair Use?  It is the allowed use of a copyrighted work without permission  These uses include things such as:  Criticism  Teaching  Research  Class assignments

Students may….  Use copyrighted works when producing their own educational multimedia projects for a course  Perform and display their own projects in the course for which they were created  Retain them in their own portfolios as examples of their academic work for later personal uses such as job and school interviews

Some Guidelines on Size/Portions  Text Material  Up to 10% or 1000 words, whichever is less of a single copyrighted work of text  Music, Lyrics, and Music Video  Up to 10%  but no more than 30 seconds of music and lyrics from a single musical work  Any alterations to a musical work shall not change the basic melody or the fundamental character of the work

More Guidelines  Illustrations and Photographs:  A photograph or illustration may be used in its entirety.  No more than 5 images by an artist/ photographer.  Not more than 10% or 15 images, whichever is less, from a single published collected work.  Motion Media  Up to 10% or 3 minutes, whichever is less of a single copyrighted motion media work

Crediting the Source  Crediting the source:  Give a full bibliographic description where available (including author, title, publisher, and place and date of publication).  The credit and copyright notice information may be combined and shown in a separate section of the educational multimedia project…Except for images:  Copyright notice and the name of the creator must be incorporated into the image so that it appears on the screen when the image is viewed.

Copyright Ownership Info  Copyright ownership information includes:  © (the copyright notice)  The term Copyright  year of first publication  name of the copyright holder  The phrase “All Rights Reserved”