2. COPYRIGHT IN DISTANCE EDUCATION
• Student will be allowed to copyright laws and the fair use policy
towards the creation of a distance education curriculum.
• The student will be able to describe how the teach act relates to a
distance education curriculum and demonstrate how it is used in a
distance education course
3. WHAT IS COPYRIGHT?
• Legal rights to an original work
• Right granted to authors to reproduce and sell their work
• No protection, new materials, and compensation
• Created to protect creative work
4. WHAT IS
COPYRIGHT?
• Protected for the author/creator for 70
years plus
• Assume for any work created after 1978
is copyrighted unless otherwise noted
5. 5 RIGHTS
OF
COPYRIGHT
HOLDERS
• Display the work publicly
• Sell the material
• Create a derivative work
• Reproduce the material
• Perform the work publicly
6. WHAT IS FAIR USE?
• Fair use grants certain types of
conditional rights to use or reproduce
limited amounts of certain
copyrighted materials
• Not all copying for the purpose of
teaching is considered Fair Use
7. FAIR USE FOR IMAGES AND GRAPHICS
• From collection, no more than 15 images or 10 percent may be used
• Images from internet may be downloaded for student projects
• Single works may be used in their entirely, but no more than 5 times
8. FAIR USE FOR PRINTED MATERIALS
• Chapter of a book
• 1000 words of a longer work
• 250 words or less of a poem
• Articles, stories, or essays less than 2,500 words
9. FAIR USE
FOR PRINTED
MATERIALS
• Students may incorporate text into multimedia
projects
• Copies can only be made from legally acquired
originals
• Teachers may make multiple copies for classroom
use.
10. SUMMARY
• Copyright can be explained and used in
different categories where things can be brought
can come into place on how connection and
technology can be used. Education technologies
using video that can be provided to distance
learners. People will need to connect to other
people for being able to use other people videos.