Embedded Files
This assignment requires analyzing videos, usually found on the internet. A great question students might ask is:
Am I breaking copyright laws if I download videos, then add them to my video essay?
Copyright Laws and Fair Use
The video below, by Common Sense Media, answers questions about "fair use" quite well. As you create your video, remember these aspects of fair use:
- Only copy small amounts of video, and beware of each website's Terms of Service Agreement.
- In the case of Youtube, (and many other websites,) even using a small amount of video, or even a screenshot, may be in violation of their Terms of Service. However, Youtube has a Creative Commons Filter (see below,) and there are many websites that provide Fair Use content (see below.)
- Youtube also outlines Fair Use and Copyright material in this article.
- Add new meaning to the work to make it original
- Example: Point out the underlying message.
- Rework and use the video in a different way
- Example: Compare/contrast with other video clips, as well as scholarly articles.
- You cannot profit from your work (other than earning a great grade!)
- Give credit to the creator: (Your citations meet the standard for this.)
If you have any further questions, ask your teacher or Mr. Berner.
And, if you really need to use a video that is copyrighted, then refer to the next page:
"Copyright and Fair Use Animation." Common Sense Education, 29 Nov. 2018, www.commonsense.org/education/videos/copyright-and-fair-use-animation. Accessed 15 May 2019.
List of "Public Domain" Video Providers
List of "Public Domain" Video Providers
Use these providers to ensure that you are not breaking copyright law!
Online library of free movies, films, and videos. Contains over a million digital movies uploaded by Archive users. These include classic full-length films, news broadcasts, cultural and academic films, commercials, cartoons, and concerts. These videos are in the public domain or are available with Creative Commons reuse rights.
The DPLA serves as a portal to the openly available, digitized contents of America’s libraries, archives, and museums. It indexes materials in all formats.
List created by IMDB.com user olicool10 of "films that certain cited sources believe are in the public domain in the United States." An addition to the list is available at http://www.imdb.com/list/i7iwnmMTuLQ/.
The purpose of the Open Video Project is to collect and make available a repository of digitized video content for the digital video, multimedia retrieval, digital library, and other research communities. "
After performing a search for video content, you can "filter" by Creative Commons license to find content with reuse rights.
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