Fair Use and Copyright Resources

 

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

http://copyrightkids.org/


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