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 Copyright & Fair Use 

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• Copyright and Fair Use Guidelines for Teachers
  "The following chart was designed to inform classroom teachers of their rights under the copyright law and copyright guidelines of the United States. Copyright and the notion of intellectual property was written into the Constitution of the United States to promote learning and the useful arts---and was designed to be supportive of the work of educators."
• Copyright and Fair Use in Teaching
  "This project will help media literacy educators understand their rights under the doctrine of fair use in order to help them more effectively use media as an essential part of their teaching."
• Copyright Basics and the Internet
  Chart showing what is permitted under Fair Use for educators, and what is not.
• Copyright for Educators
  A slidecast presentation from educator and author Wesley Freyer.
• Copyright Guidelines
  Short list showing "the guidelines for including work that is done by other people in your own presentation, report, or movie."
• The Copyright Website
  "This site endeavors to provide real world, practical and relevant copyright information...".
• Crash Course in Copyright
  Information, links, tutorial, and discussions of copyright law and issues.
• The Educator's Guide to Copyright and Fair Use
  From Education World. With information about technology and copyright and fair use issues.
• The Ethical Researcher
  Presentations, templates, and links about research, copyright, plagiarism, and teaching student responsibility in the digital age.
• FAQ About Copyright Issues
  From the University of Texas, information about copyright for teachers and students.
• Copyright Perspectives
  "This site was created to help students make sound decisions about the way they use media. Since intellectual property laws and guidelines are so complex and hotly debated, this site provides news and links to various perspectives on these issues."
• Permission Template for Students
  Permission Template for Teachers
  Handy way to email a request for permission to use someone's work in your school project or teaching with an easy fill-in-the-blanks form.
• Ten Common Misunderstandings about Fair Use
  From the Media Education Lab at Temple University.
• Understanding Copyright in a Media-Rich World
  "What is the difference between plagiarism and paraphrasing? Who do copyright laws protect, and why are they important? This collection of lessons ... helps to answer these questions while fostering an understanding of both the purpose and means of respecting the intellectual property rights of others."
• U.S. Copyright Office
  Official source for information about copyright laws, registration, fair use, and related topics.

 Copyright & Fair Use Issues in Media Production 

• Bound by Law
  "Why do we have copyrights? What’s 'fair use'? Bound By Law ... provide(s) a commentary on the most pressing issues facing law, art, property and an increasingly digital world of remixed culture." (Comic book.)
• Center for Scoial Media
  Includes information on copyright and fair use in education, teaching materials, and free video and audio downloads of clips relating social media literacy.
• Code of Best Practices in Fair Use for Online Video
  "This document is a code of best practices that helps creators, online providers, copyright holders, and others interested in the making of online video interpret the copyright doctrine of fair use. ... This code of practices is organized, for ease of understanding, around common situations that come up for online video makers."
• Recut, Reframe, Recycle
  Study of "a wide variety of practices—satire, parody, negative and positive commentary, discussion-triggers, illustration, diaries, archiving and of course, pastiche or collage (remixes and mashups)—all of which could be legal in some circumstances."
• Podcasting Legal Guide
  Information on copyright for podcasters, including information on 'podsafe' sources of music and various options for licensing your own podcasts.

 Creative Commons Licenses

• CreativeCommons.org
  "Creative Commons provides free tools that let authors, scientists, artists, and educators easily mark their creative work with the freedoms they want it to carry." Discusses types of Creative Commons Licenses, Using CC for Sharing Creative Works, and related topics.
• Creative Commons: What every Educator needs to know
  "This slideshow provides the framework for a discussion about how educators can model 'creative integrity' and how they can assist students in leverage the Creative Commons as content creators."
• The Educator's Guide to the Creative Commons
  A presentation from education/tech blogger Darren Draper.
• Get Creative (video)
  Video from Creative Commons about copyright, fair use, and creative commons licenses both for users and producers.
• Understanding Creative Commons
  Draft of a journal article by Doug Johnson of the Blue Skunk blog. Part 2 here.
• A Shared Culture (video)
  "An explanation of Creative Commons using work licensed under Creative Commons licenses."
• Sharing Creative Works: An Illustrated (and Narrated) Primer
  "A video based on the Comic written and illustrated by Alex Roberts, Rebecca Rojer, & Jon Phillips (found at http://wiki.creativecommons.org/Sharing_Creative_Works)."
• Wanna Work Together? (video)
  Great short video about how CC licenses promote sharing and creativity.