1. A Guide to What Every
Educator Should Know
About opyright
Professional Development
January 28, 2012
Presented by: Priscilla Velez

2. The following presentation is for
information purposes only and
represents my research and my limited
understanding of copyright laws.

3. Objectives
• What is copyright?
• Copyright Law
• Copyright-What is NOT Protected?
• What is Infringement?
• Doctrine of Fair Use
• What is Open Content?
• Code of Best Practices
• Five Principles-Code of Best Practices
• Educator’s Rights
• Protect your Work
• What are we Teaching our Students

4. What is Copyright?
“copyright is a form of
protection grounded in the
U.S. Constitution and
granted by law for original
works of authorship fixed in
a tangible medium of
expression. Copyright covers
both published and
unpublished works”
Source: http://www.copyright.gov/help/faq/faq-general.html

5. Copyright Law
• Work originally created and published in
the United States before 1923
• Work originally created in the United States
before March, 1, 1989 without copyright
notice
• Work published in the United States before
1964 without copyright renewal

6. Works Protected
By Copyright

7. Copyright-What is NOT Protected?
• ideas or concepts (business idea or a concept)
• discoveries (research finding that has not been known
before)
• procedures (steps involved when applying for a travel visa)
• methods (unique solution to a mathematical problem)
• works or other subject matter that have not been made in a
tangible form in a recording or writing a speech or a dance
that has not been written or recorded
• subject matter which is not of original authorship (works
which contain information in the public domain)
Source: http://www.ipos.gov.sg/leftNav/cop/About+Copyright.htm

8. What is Infringement?
Infringement occurs when copyrighted work is:
• reproduced
• distributed
• performed
• publicly displayed
• or made into a derivative work without the
permission of the copyright owner
Source: http://www.copyright.gov/help/faq/faq-definitions.html

9. Doctrine of Fair Use
107: Fair Use “various purposes for which the
reproduction of a particular work may be considered
fair, such as criticism, comment, news
reporting, teaching, scholarship, and research”
- -Section 107
Copyright Act of 1976
“Copyright protects the particular way authors have
expressed themselves. It does not extend to any
ideas, systems, or factual information conveyed in a
work.”

10. What is Open Content?
Open content,” is licensed in a manner that
provides users with the right to make more kinds
of uses than those normally permitted under the
law- at no cost to the user.
–Reuse
–Revise
–Remix
–Redistribute
Source: http://opencontent.org/definition/

11. Code of Best Practices
This code of best practices, that
consists of 5 principles was created to
assist educator’s in K–12
education, higher education, and in
classes given by nonprofit
organizations and they apply to all
forms of media.
Source: http://www.centerforsocialmedia.org/fair-use/related-materials/codes/code-best-practices-fair-use-media-literacy-education

12. Five Principles-Code of Best Practices
Educators are able to:
1. Using copyrighted material in media literacy.
2. Employing copyrighted material in preparing
curriculum.
3. Sharing media literacy curriculum.
Students are able to:
3. Student use of copyrighted materials in their own
academic and creative work.
4. Developing audiences for student work.
Source: http://www.centerforsocialmedia.org/fair-use/related-materials/codes/code-best-practices-fair-use-media-literacy-education

13. Educator’s Rights
The Teach Act permits teachers and students of
accredited, nonprofit educational institutions to
transmit performances and displays of copyrighted
works as part of a course if certain conditions are met.
Educator’s may use:
• print material
• images
• web sites
• moving-image media
• sound media

16. Protect your Work

17. What are we teaching Students about………
• Copyright
• Plagiarism
• Fair use
• Public Domain
• Creative Commons
We have the opportunity to help teach
students their rights and responsibilities
when using technology.

18. Resources
• Education WorldDistrict Liability and Teaching
Responsibility: Part 5 of a Series on Copyright and Fair
Use
http://www.educationworld.com/a_curr/curr280e.shtml
• Copyright Iconhttp://www.iconarchive.com/show/torrent-
icons-by-aha-soft/copyright-icon.html
• Copyright Definitions
http://www.copyright.gov/help/faq/faq-definitions.html
• Copyright Basics
http://www.copyright.gov/circs/circ1.pdf

19. Resources Continued
• Copyright and Digital
Imageshttp://www.jiscdigitalmedia.ac.uk/stillimages/ad
vice/copyright-and-digital-images/
• Copyright Crash Course http://copyright.lib.utexas.edu/
• The code of best Practices in fair use for Media Literacy
Educationhttp://www.centerforsocialmedia.org/fair-
use/related-materials/codes/code-best-practices-fair-use-
media-literacy-education
• Copyright and Fairuse Guidelines for
Teachershttp://www.techlearning.com/techlearning/pdf/
events/techforum/tx05/TeacherCopyright_chart.pdf

20. Reflections, Questions, Concerns,
Ideas, Arguments?
Thank you all for attending.