There are educational exceptions in the Copyright Act that allow you to use copyright material for free in the classroom, without relying on a licence and without needing to get permission from the copyright owner.

With the Week 5 Readings and tasks you’ll learn the ins and outs of these educational exceptions.

Please post (ie copy and paste) your answer in this week's google folder, under your group's number, by the end of Sunday 27 August 2023, and finish your peer review by the end of Tuesday 29 August 2023.

Margot is an educator who is trying to figure out what she can and can't do with her classroom's digital technology. She would like to do the following:

1. 1.  format shift a DVD into a digital file (eg MP4) to upload onto a DTE  (digital teaching environment) where a digital file is not commercially available

   2.   download two YouTube clips (10 seconds each) to upload onto a DTE for her students to access as part of a homework activity. 

   3.   create an audiobook from a book that students are studying in their English class and upload this to the DTE for the entire school term

   4.  play music from her personal Spotify account to her class

   5.  stream a YouTube clip on the smartboard to her class

   6.  copy a storybook by rewriting the text into ‘easy English’ for a student who has learning difficulties

   7.  caption videos for students with hearing disabilities

   8.  copy a clip from a film and provide students access to it for use in an online exam.

Questions (to be answered by each group):

1. Is this activity covered by an exception? If so, please specify which one.

2. Are there any restrictions that may limit the application of the copyright exception relied on?