Videos and Your
Classroom
A look at Fair Use and Copyright
when using videos in lessons

How Can I…
 Share videos with my students legally?
 Attribute credit to the original author?
 Teach my students how to do the
same?

Fair Use Principles
 1.Employing Copyrighted Material in Media
Literacy Lessons
 2.Employing Copyrighted Material in
Preparing Curriculum Materials
 3.Sharing Media Literacy Curriculum
Materials
 4.Student Use of Copyrighted Materials in
Their Own Academic and Creative Work
 5.Developing Audiences for Student Work

Sharing VHS/ DVDs With Your
Class
 For educational uses, it is legal to use videos
without paying royalties
 If you have any doubts about whether it can
be considered “educational use”, ask
permission, and give credit to the author
 Usually, if an author doesn’t want their work
used, they will just ask you to stop using it

Sharing Web Videos with your
Class
 Showing your students videos from YouTube and
other sites for educational uses are allowed.
 http://www.youtube.com/watch?
v=AOO_gm8Q3ZI
 Uploading videos to these sites for educational
purposes might start some arguments though!
 http://chronicle.com/wiredcampus/article/1881/fighti
 When in doubt, try to stick with videos from
educational sites, such as TeacherTube and
SchoolTube.

Creative Commons
So what if I want my students to create
videos, and share them?
 Creative Commons allows students to apply
their own level of copyright to whatever
they create!
 There is no better way for students to learn
than through experience
 http://creativecommons.org/

Remember…
If you want your students to respect the
work of others, and give due credit,
you must show them how to!