1. Copyright Law and "Fair Use"
Copyright Chaos
Classroom Guide to
Copyright Law and "Fair Use"
Rev. 9/28/01 – Abridged version
Presentation created for the
Intel® Teach to the Future program
by Judi Edman Yost
Institute of Computer Technology

2. What is Copyright?
Laws have been created to protect authors and artists that create things that are creative and “original.”
If someone produces something that is original – no one else has created anything quite like it – then that person is the only one who can copy it, perform it in public, or publish it, unless he/she gives that permission to someone else.
That’s what it means to have the right to copy (copyright).

3. What is not protected by copyright law?
Works that have not been written or recorded (your stories, if they are not written down, are not protected by copyright law)
Ideas, procedures, methods, discoveries
Works that contain no original authorship (for example: standard calendars, height and weight charts, tape measures and rulers, etc.)
Lists of data (such as the telephone book)
Items in the public domain (meaning works that are available for anyone to use. All works created before 1923 and most between are in the public domain)
Most U.S. government materials (some items created by contractors for the government might be copyrighted)
Facts

4. However...
Students and Teachers
get a break
with a "fair use" clause

5. What is “fair use”?
Fair Use is a part of the United States Copyright law.
It allows people to use and make copies of copyrighted works if they are using them for:
criticism,
comment,
news reporting,
teaching,
scholarship, or
research

6. There are four questions that will help us decide whether using
a copyrighted work
without permission
is "fair use."

7. Before using copyrighted work, ask yourself:
Is the copying for educational use?
Is the original material mainly facts, not very original, and published?
Are you using small amounts, not whole sections?
Is the original material freely available? (Meaning, the author is not trying to make money on it)
If any answers are “no” – be careful!
The use of that work might not fall under “fair use.”

8. Sometimes, it is hard to know how much of a copyrighted work we can use. To help us know what is Fair Use, the “Fair Use Guidelines to Educational Multimedia” were created.

9. The “Fair Use Guidelines to Educational Multimedia” help us know how much to use…
Use the smallest amount of:
Motion Media
10% or 3 minutes
Text
10% or 1000 words
Poetry
250 words; no more than 3 poems by same author
Music, Lyrics, Video
10% or 30 seconds
Photos & Illustrations
5 images from one author
Numerical Data Sets
10% of 2500 fields or cells
Poetry

10. Giving Credit to the Author/Creator
Always credit the author:
On a “Works Cited” or References page of a report or presentation, include (if available):
The author’s name
The title of the work
The publisher
The place and date of publication
List the copyright information underneath any copyrighted images. Example:
© 2002 Author’s Name

11. Giving Credit to the Author/Creator
For copyrighted works from a Web site, include:
The Author’s name
The Title of the Work
The name of the Site
The date it was posted on the Web or revised
The date you obtained the work from the Web
The Web site’s address (URL)

12. Future Uses Beyond Fair Use
If there is a possibility that a project could be published beyond the classroom (for example, published on the Internet), obtain permissions when you create your project, rather than waiting.

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14. This presentation is copyrighted by Intel.
However, it may be used, with copyright notices intact, for not-for-profit, educational purposes.