Copyright Clarity

1. Copyright, Fair Use and
the Mis-education
in Room 401
in Room 401
or: Teachers: Beg, Borrow, and... Steal?

2. What is Copyright?
The owner’s legal right to reproduce, display,
transmit, perform and modify work they have
created.
A work is automatically copyrighted at the
moment of creation as long as it is in a fixed
tangible form.
Copyright reflects the
interests of the creators of a
work, the publishers, and
the users.

4. Copyright’s Purpose
To promote the spread of knowledge and
innovation.
-U.S. Constitution
The Founding Fathers believed that
encouraging the development of new ideas and
information serves society as a whole.

6. Fair Use
Section 107: The fair use Doctrine of the
copyright law of 1976
Fair use gives people the right to use
copyrighted material when the cost to the
copyright holder is less than the social benefit
of the use of the copyrighted work.
- Peter Jaszi

8. Four Factors
Purpose of Use
Nature of the Work
Amount of the Portion Used
The economic impact on the market value of
the copyrighted work

9. Copyright Confusion

12. Confusing Copyright
Trends in Education
If it is for educational purposes it is all good.
If it is only used in the class room it is all good.
If it has the ©, avoid! It aint’ all good!

13. Educational-Use
Guidelines
1976 Agreement on Guidelines for Classroom
Photocopying in Not-for-profit Educational Institutions
Guidelines for Educational Uses of Music
1981 Guidelines for Off-Air Recording of Broadcast
Programming for Educational Purposes
Fair Use Guidelines for Educational Multimedia

14. Guidelines are NOT the law!

15. Confusing Examples
The 10% Rule
Destroying off-air recordings of broadcast
programing after 45 days
Copies can be made only at the request of an
individual teacher

16. Comply

17. Misinformation
Many copyright education materials are
created and sponsored by members of
publishing industry and large corporations
Copyright Alliance
Motion Picture Association of America
Copyright Clearance Center
Recording Industry Association of America

18. Other material is created and sponsored by
non-profit and civil-rights organizations
Media Education Lab
The Electronic Frontier Foundation

19. Examine

20. Resources
http://ww1.prweb.com/prfiles/2006/01/04/329121/ObeyIconhighrescopy.jpg
http://www.pdinfo.com/PD-Music-Genres/PD-Patriotic-Songs.php
http://archive.org/details/HailToTheChief_482
http://dig.ccmixter.org
www.shutterstock.com
Opening music, “Remixing Is Okay (Lessing & Colbert) by Spinnmeister
Closing music, “Urban-Metronica (Wooh Yeah mix) by Spinningmerkaba
Joseph King
josephcking@mac.com