Fair Use and Copyright Resources
Fair Use and Copyright Resources
MRC Contact
Stephanie Stieglitz
sstieglitz@d181.org
630-887-1430
Fair Use Evaluator
American Library Association - allows evaluation of fair use and provides a time-stamped document for your records to show your fair use evaluation and support.
http://www.librarycopyright.net/fairuse/
Copyright Advisory Network
American Library Association - a open forum bulletin board where you can post questions that will be answered by people interested in copyright and fair use - not legal advice
http://librarycopyright.net/wordpress/punbb/viewforum.php?id=1
Center for Social Media
Provides “The Code of Best Practices in Fair Use for Media Literacy Education”
http://www.centerforsocialmedia.org/resources/publications/code_for_media_literacy_education/
Copyright with Cyberbee
Includes an interactive game for students to answer copyright questions.
http://www.cyberbee.com/copyrt.html
Copyright Kids
From the Copyright Society, includes sample permission letters
End to Copyright Confusion
Wiki - share your ideas, questions and activities in helping to reduce copyright confusion!
http://copyrightconfusion.wikispaces.com/
10 Big Myths about Copyright Explained by Brad Templeton
http://www.templetons.com/brad/copymyths.html
Copyright and Fair Use
Presentation slides by Spiro Bolos from New Trier High School
http://www.slideshare.net/oripsolob/copyright-and-fair-use-1178245
Copyright Criminals
PBS and Independent Lens provide “Copyright Criminals”, a documentary that explores the origins of sampling culture in hip-hop music, copyright, creativity, and technological change. Includes lesson plans.
http://www.pbs.org/independentlens/copyright-criminals/classroom.html
Copyright and Fair Use in the Art World and Classroom
Archive of PBS Teachers Live Webinar
http://www.pbs.org/teachers/webinar/archive.html?contactID=113787749&gwkey=FD4AZ2KTEJ
Copyright Law of the United States
and Related Laws contained in Title 17 of the United States Code from the U. S. Copyright Office
http://www.copyright.gov/title17/92chap1.html
Hall Davidson does presentations on copyright and other topics and works for Discovery Education. He has several charts that give guidelines for Fair Use in education. (scroll down to Copyright Resources)
http://www.halldavidson.net/downloads.html