Copyright, Fair Use, And Creative Commons

Copyright, Public Domain, Fair Use, and Creative Commons 7 th Grade Digital Literacy

What is Copyright Law?
Copyright insures that the people who create “Intellectual Property” can own, control and be paid for their efforts.
Intellectual property is a tangible form of expression:
Written work, musical work, works of art, dramatic work, digitized work, video
Copyright protection is automatic when intellectual property is created.

What is the Public Domain?
A work of authorship is in the “public domain” if it is no longer under copyright protection.
Works in the public domain may be used without the permission of the former copyright owner.
Rules for when items pass into the public domain vary considerably .

What is Fair Use?
Fair Use allows the use of portions of copyrighted works and materials for educational purposes.
Copyright is a law ; Fair Use is a guideline
Four guidelines determine Fair Use:
The purpose and character of the use.
The nature of the copyrighted work.
The amount of the portion used.
The effect of the use upon its value.

Fair Use: Print Material
Poem less than 250 words; 250-word excerpt of poem greater than 250 words
Excerpt from a longer work (10 percent of work or 1,000 words, whichever is less).

Fair Use: Images
Single works may be used in their entirety, but no more than five images by a single artist or photographer may be used.
From a collection, not more than 15 images or 10 percent (whichever is less) may be used.

Fair Use: Video
Students may use10 percent or three minutes (whichever is less) of “motion media.”
Copyright works included in multimedia projects must give proper attribution to copyright holder.

Fair Use: Audio
Students may use10 percent or 30 seconds (whichever is less) of a musical composition.
The multimedia program must have an educational use.

What is Creative Commons?

What is Creative Commons?
Creative Commons provides free tools that let authors, scientists, artists, and educators easily mark their creative work with the freedoms they want it to carry.
You can use CC to change your copyright terms from "All Rights Reserved" to "Some Rights Reserved."

Creative Commons Conditions

Public Domain Resources
Bartleby.com Public domain texts online
Books on the Internet. E-texts from UT Austin
Great Books. Ancient classics to 20 th century masterpieces.
Images Listing of public domain images
Internet Public Library Library for the Internet community
Moving Image Archive Movies, films, and videos
Online Books Listing over 30,000 free books on the Web
Project Gutenberg More than 25,000 free e-books

Additional Resources
General Purpose
Creative Commons Search
Images
Flickr CC
Flickr Storm
Audio
CC Mixter
Free Sounds
Shambles List

Always Cite Your Sources
Copyrighted Material: Use the MLA style as shown on the library bibliography page
ArtistName. "Title of Image." Date Taken/Created. Online Image. Name of Image Site. Date you accessed/downloaded the picture. <http://www.electronicaddress.com>.
Creative Commons Material: Use the guidelines found on the CC Marking page
This video features the song “Play Your Part (Pt.1)” by Girl Talk , available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial license . © 2008, Greg Gillis.
See Molly Kleinman’s blog for more CC citation information

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