1. EDT 3470 Education Technology
Copyright, Fair Use, & Public Domain

2. Your contact in the library:
Brad Dennis
Michele Behr
Education Library, 2800 Sangren Hall
Reference Desk:

3. What is copyright?
Definition: Protection given to any "original works of authorship” or creative work from being copied or distributed without permission. All creative works are immediately given copyright to the creator when the original work is created. Copyright applies both to traditional media (books, images, etc.) and to digital media (electronic journals, Web sites, etc.).
The Copyright Law of the United States is contained in Title 17 of the United States Code (17 U.S.C.).

4. Question:
Copying elements of someone’s website without permission is a violation of copyright.
A. True
B. False

5. Copyright protects the following eight categories of works
literary works
musical works
dramatic works
pantomimes and choreographic works
pictorial, graphic, and sculptural works
motion pictures and other audiovisual works
sound recordings
architectural works

6. Question: Punishment for violation of copyright can be:
A. A crime including jail time or fines and fees.
B. A civil suit in which the defendant is sued and has to pay the plaintiff money
C. Both

7. What is Public Domain?
Definition:  A public domain work is a creative work that no longer has copyright restrictions because the creator willingly relinquished their copyright or because the creator is dead AND no one owns the copyright.
Works are in the public domain if:
(1) the term of copyright for the work has expired
(2) the author failed to satisfy statutory formalities to protect the copyright or
(3) it is a work of the U.S. Government.

8. Question:
Using images or video taken by NASA without permission is a violation of copyright.
A. True
B. False

9. What is Fair Use?
Fair use provisions of the US Copyright Law (Title 17, section 107) allow for limited distribution of published works without the author's permission with proper citation, for a scholarly or educational project.
Definition: Legal right to use copyrighted works as long as the work is used for non-profit educational, research, or personal use. Guidelines were developed by a group of educational users and copyright owners that interpreted the Copyright Act.

10. Students may:
Incorporate portions of lawfully acquired copyrighted works when producing their own educational multimedia projects for a specific course
Perform and display their own projects in the course for which they were created
Retain projects in their own portfolios as examples of their academic work for later personal uses such as job and school interviews.

11. Question:
You can keep your multimedia project in I-Webfolio and use it as an example of your work during a job interview without violating copyright.
A. True
B. False

12. What are Open Educational Resources & Creative Commons?
Definition: Open Educational Resources (OER) are teaching, learning, and research materials in any medium that reside in the public domain or have been released under an open license that permits their free use and re-purposing by others.
Definition: Creative works that are copyrighted but the creator has put provisions on their use. A creative commons license might stipulate, for example, that a work can be used as long as it isn’t modified in any way. Creative Commons is also the name of the organization that started the concept and the name of the license.

13. What can I use? Copyright and Fair Use Guidelines for Teachers.
Chart by Hall Davidson
Circular 21 of the U.S. Copyright Office

15. Illustrations and Photographs:
A photograph or illustration may be used in its entirety.
No more than 5 images by an artist or photographer.
Not more than 10% or 15 images, whichever is less, from a single published collected work.

16. Music, Lyrics, and Music Video
Motion Media Up to 10% or 3 minutes, whichever is less, of a single copyrighted motion media work.
Up to 10% of a single musical work
No more than 30 seconds of music and lyrics from a single musical work

17. Attribution & Acknowledgement
Credit the sources and display the copyright notice © and copyright ownership information for all incorporated works including those prepared under fair use. This must appear on the screen with the image used.
Copyright ownership information includes:
© (the copyright notice)
year of first publication
name of the copyright holder
Example: © 2014 Company/Person’s Name
Taken from “An Overview of the Fair Use Guidelines for Educational Multimedia”
Appendix J of the Conference on Fair Use's Final Report dated November 1998

18. Question:
If it does not have a copyright notice, it is not copyrighted.
A. True
B. False

19. Getting Permission
Ask the rights owner for permission. If the owner says no, it means no. If you can't reach the owner, treat it as no.
If permission is obtained to use a work, then the agreed-upon use is acceptable. There are several avenues for getting permission to use copyrighted works. Following are links to two options:
Copyright Clearance Center
United States Copyright Office (For records from 1978-present)
Circular 22, "How to Investigate the Copyright Status of a Work," from the United States Copyright Office offers guidance for obtaining permission.

20. Where can I find multi-media at WMU?
Select Libraries and Collections
Then select Images and Slides

21. Where can I find multi-media at WMU?
Select Images and Slides

22. Images and Videos Page
Note tab
For Images
& Videos

23. ArtStor – High quality professional images

24. ArtStor – Search Page

25. ArtStor Results

26. CAMIO – Art museum images

27. CAMIO – Results list

28. WMU Image Catalog

29. Question:
A photographer created a photographic image of the Las Vegas Strip. Another company scanned the image and used six buildings (only 15%) from the original to create a poster and then sold the poster commercially.
A. Fair Use
B. Violation of copyright
Tiffany Design vs. Reno-Tahoe Specialty, inc., 1999

30. Images and Videos Page
Select tab
For Videos

31. Films on Demand

32. Individual Title With Embedded Link

33. Question:
If I personally purchased the video I can use it in class with my students.
A. True
B. False

34. Audio Sources Freeplay Music Free music that can be downloaded.
Free Sound Effects Archive
The largest collection of sound effects on the Internet (according to them) including nearly 2,000 sound effects
Internet Archive
Over two hundred thousand free audio and MP3 library digital recordings

35. Sound Effects Archive

36. Other Image Sources Public Domain / Copyright Free Media
This page provides links to some of the better copyright-free and public domain resources. It is intended for educators and librarians who wish to locate quality, copyright-friendly materials for educational, noncommercial, and nonprofit projects.
Google Image Search
Offers simple and advanced search options. Supports Boolean and phrase searching. Can limit by size, file type, color or Web domain, and filter for adult material in different levels of strictness. Can search within results.
Picsearch
It automatically excludes adult materials. Can limit by color and picture size. It supports Boolean and phrase search

38. Other Video Sources http://www.open-video.org/
The purpose of the Open Video Project is to collect and make available a repository of digitized video content for the digital video, multimedia retrieval, digital library, and other research communities.
YouTube is a place for people to engage in new ways with video by sharing, commenting on, and viewing videos. YouTube originally started as a personal video sharing service, and has grown into an entertainment destination with people watching more than 70 million videos on the site daily.
Much like YouTube, it is a place where people share videos with one another.

40. More Information
Copyright and Fair Use Guidelines for Teachers. Chart by Hall Davidson
Can I Use That Picture Chart by Curtis Newbold, The Visual Communication Guy
When U.S. Works Pass Into The Public Domain. Chart by Lolly Gasaway       
Copyright Law of the United States of America and Related Laws Contained in Title 17 of the United States Code, Circular 92 U.S. Copyright Office
Reproduction of Copyrighted Works by Educators and Librarians, Circular 21. U.S. Copyright Office

41. Question:
What is the easiest way to avoid copyright violations using images, sound, or video.
A. Use items that are in the public domain
B. Use my own images or recordings
C. Both

42. *Today’s lecture was: Interesting and relevant Just interesting
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