This document provides guidelines for teachers on fair use of printed copyrighted materials in the classroom. It outlines that teachers can make multiple copies of articles, stories, or poems under 2500 words for classroom use, or copy a small portion of longer works. Teachers must keep copies for no more than two years and credit the original author. Entire books or works cannot be copied without permission. The document gives examples of allowed and prohibited uses of copyrighted materials for educational purposes.

1. Copyright and Fair Use Guidelines For Teachers:Printed Material By: Rebecca GantnierEDT 415 4/12/11

2. Poem less than 250 wordsExcerpt 250 words poem more than 250 wordsArticles, stories, essays less than 2500 wordsOne chart, picture, diagram, graph, cartoon 2 pages illustrated work less than 250 wordsMediums of Printed Material

3. Multiple copies for classroom Students incorporate into multimedia projectsTeachers incorporate into multimedia coursesWhat You Can Do

4. One copy per studentNo anthologiesCopies made only by legal originalsTeachers keep for 2 years, then permissionStudents keep for life Copies not substitute for buying booksNo copies from consumable works Copies acknowledge author of workThe Fine Print

5. Use works repeatedly Use for commercial or noneducational reasonsUse work in entirety, more than 2500 wordsWhen To Get Permission

6. Needs 4 copies of book-copies made of book in entiretyViolates law-copies not used as substitute for purchasing2. Teach sequencing-copy entire picture book, mix up pages, put in orderViolates law—only two pages allowed from picture bookExample of Violation of Law

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