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Take the Copyright, Plagiarism, and Fair Use Guidelines Pre-Test and let's see how much you actually know about how to legally navigate our digital world.
Copy the following terms to the INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY section of your CS Notebook.
Intellectual Property: Creative work in a tangible form
Copyright: Legal protection for tangible creative work.
Public Domain: Free to use by anyone for any reason.
Fair Use: Allows for limited use of copyrighted material without the need to get permission.
In this lesson, you are going to watch a video that was created by the Copyright Clearance Center. The target audience is education professionals (teachers, counselors, librarians, etc.). Even though it is targeted to adults who work in education, it contains an excellent overview of the main issues around copyright law.
You are going to take notes on this video and you are going to reflect on some follow up questions as well. Since you are watching this video on your own, feel free to stop and or rewind the video as needed to make sure you get all the required notes and/or get the answers to all the questions below.
Be prepared to discuss (with the class) the content of both these videos, any questions you have, and any issues they raise.
Watch the Copyright on Campus video (created and hosted by the Copyright Clearance Center). (NOTE: use the link from the previous sentence if you have trouble watching the video below).
Add the following questions and answers to the INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY section of your CS Notebook.
What article and section of the US Constitution relates to copyright?
What are the "exclusive rights" for copyright holders?
What do you need if you want to share copyrighted material?
What kinds of use automatically qualifies as FAIR USE?
What are the four factors when considering FAIR USE?
Explain the FIRST SALE doctrine.
What is Attribution?
What is the PUBLIC DOMAIN?
What kinds of things are NOT protected under copyright?
The "Four Factors" (below) comes from the Copyright and Fair Use site provided by the Stanford University Libraries at Stanford University. Copy the following information to the FOUR TESTS OF FAIR USE page of your CS Notebook.
The purpose and character of your use
The nature of the copyrighted work
The amount and substantiality of the portion taken, and
The effect of the use upon the potential market
We will review these questions during one of our upcoming live sessions.
Copy the following terms to the INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY section of your CS Notebook.
Licensing: Permission to use copyrighted work.
In the "Copyright, Public Domain, and Fair Use" activity (above), you learned about the legal aspects of Copyright, Public Domain, and Fair Use. Now it's time to look these concepts from a slightly different perspective.
Kirby Ferguson is a well known filmmaker, writer, and speaker who often speaks about the Remix Culture and Fair Use. He is has spoken at TED and SXSW and is probably best known for his series, This is Not a Conspiracy Theory, his four-part video series Everything is a Remix, and his TED Talk, "Embrace the Remix."
As a warmup to the Kirby Ferguson video, your are going to watch the Fair Use and Online Video | Examples of Remix Culture video on YouTube:
Watch Kirby Ferguson's TEDTalk entitled, Embrace the Remix (below). You can also find this video on Ferguson's Everything is a Remix page.
Be prepared to discuss this video in class.
In previous activities your learned about both copyright and the remix culture. The rapid development of Internet access, bandwidth, tools, software, apps, and such have made it incredibly easy for anyone to become a digital content creator and publish new creative works for the world to enjoy. But if YOU are creating a new creative work it can be very difficult to determine if what you are doing falls under the FAIR USE doctrine or might possibly put you in jeopardy of being sued for copyright infringement.
Wouldn't it be nice if there was a better way? Wouldn't it be nice to know, for certain, whether or not you have permission to use (or reuse) other's creative works in your project?
Welcome to CREATIVE COMMONS.
This lesson will introduce you to Creative Commons licensing. There is some prep work for you to do on your own to get ready for our class discussion.
Follow the instructions in the ACTIVITIES section below and be sure to take excellent notes in your notebook.
Watch the following video about Creative Commons on YouTube. It was put together by Creative Commons. Be sure to answer the questions below in your notebook:
Answer the following questions on the LICENSING and CREATIVE COMMONS page of your CS Notebook.
According to the video, BIG C (copyright) means what?
How does this video explain Public Domain?
As the law stands right now, when do works become copyrighted?
Why was CREATIVE COMMONS created and what does it do?
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Copy the following terms to the INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY section of your CS Notebook.
Attribution: Credit to the creator(s)
Plagiarism: Passing off others' work as your own
When you are finished, complete the following activities:
Digital Citizenship Test (the link will remain inactive until this activity has been assigned)
Rights vs. Remix (the link will remain inactive until this activity has been assigned)