Copyright

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Copyright and Fair Use for Teachers

Copyright and Fair Use for Students

Copyright and Fair Use by Jason Mammano as amended by Robin Jordan 6/2013

Questions

1. Students are working on a classroom video project - can they use six minutes of a 1/2 hour news documentary/program?

2. Does a person need to place a copyright notice on the work or register his/her work with the US Patent Office to make it copyrighted?

3. Is it permissible to copy a page of 25 collected Internet Web links and place it on your webpage?

4. What is copyright infringement?

5. What is attribution?

6. What 4 criteria constitute fair use?

7. A student writes and produces a short play. One of the characters has a birthday during the play, and in one scene, the actors sing "Happy Birthday To You" around a candle covered cake. Is this copyright infringement?

8. Theatre students write a skit, a parody of Seven Brides for Seven Brothers, for a forum about same-sex marriage. Is it this copyright infringement? Why or why not?

9. The Psychology teacher has placed 4 articles on reserve in the library. All the articles have been printed from various professional/scholarly journals that she found and printed from EBSCO, an online database provided by NCWiseOwl. Students are required to have copies of the articles and annotate them a set number of times during the semester. Can the library legally allow the students to copy the articles?

10. A publisher will not give permission for a student to use his/her work. Can the student use the work anyway? How or Why not?

11. A History teacher records a program from PBS (Public Broadcasting System) on her DVD recorder at home. She shows the film to her History of the Americas class as part of her presentation. Is this copyright infringement? Why or why not?

12. What is the difference between plagiarism and copyright infringement?

13. An LCA places the user names and passwords for home access to subscription databases out on the school website. Anyone searching the internet can download it and access resources your school has paid for. Is this a violation of copyright?

14. A teacher wants to show a TV program that he purchased on iTunes. The program is curriculum appropriate and will show on a TV monitor. Can the teacher use this resource? Why or why not?

15. What types of things are NOT protected by copyright?

16. What constitutes Public Domain?

17. What is Creative Commons?

18. What types of licenses does Creative Commons offer?

19. How do you make a proper citation?

20. The Wildcat Learning Commons has a North Carolina history book that is hard to find. This book is referenced in several history classes across the county. How can this resource be shared without infringing on the copyright or abusing the original copy?