1. By: Catherine Ernst
For use in High School or Higher Education

2. The Basics
 Copyright law-
 Specific laws stating what materials are
protected by copyright
 Allows for fair use
 Only applies to tangible materials

3. What is Fair Use?
 Allows for exceptions to copyright
 Ex: Teachers may use copyrighted
materials BUT cannot share it freely
with others.

4. Fair Use
 4 Factors determine fair use
 1. What is the character of use?
 2. What is the nature of the work to be used?
 3. How much of the work will you use?
 4. What effect would the use have on the market
for the original work?

5. Three Key Steps to Fair Use
 Limit TIME
 Limit AMOUNT
 Limit ACCESS

6. Who's the Owner?
 If you cannot locate the owner…
 Search on the internet
 Finding the owner is important
because…
 You must give credit where credit is DUE
 You must follow copyright law

7. Permission Granted!
 Do I need permission to use that material?
 YES!
 What do I do?
 Ask the media specialist
 Write a letter to the owner of the material.

8. Intellectual Property
 This is a gray area for most schools.
 Intellectual property includes…
 Anything that a person has created using
the mind (WIPO)
 EX: patents, inventions, artistic works,
literary works, etc

9. Intellectual Property
 IF you create course content for the web
 A school/university may copyright materials
 You may or may not be able to keep
materials
 Find out your university/institutions rules on
this

10. Internet Sources
 Read Terms of Use on web pages
 Cite information if you use it
 All internet sources sound be
considered copyrighted

11. Remember…
 You must ALWAYS cite sources
 Create a citation page and cite in text
 Do NOT pass of others’ work as your
own
 Get proper permission

12. Plagiarism
 Copying works created by other
people
 Copyright infringement
 Plagiarism
carries severe
consequences

13. Consequences for Students
 Zero credit on assignments
 Expulsion from school
 Expulsion from college
 Legal action

14. Quick Quiz
Could this considered copyrighted material?

15. Citations
 Ko, S. S., & Rossen, S. (2010). Teaching online, a practical guide. (3 ed., pp. 227-246).
New York, NY and London, England: Taylor & Francis.
 Batson, T. (2008). Web 2.0, secondary orality, and the gutenberg parenthesis. Campus
Technology, 1-2. Retrieved from http://campustechnology.com/articles/2008/03/web-20-
secondary-orality-and-the-gutenberg-parenthesis.aspx
 What is intellectual property?. (n.d.). Retrieved from http://www.wipo.int/about-ip/en/
 Plagiarism faqs. (n.d.). Retrieved from
http://www.plagiarism.org/plag_article_plagiarism_faq.html
 Gunter, G. (2012). Retrieved from
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