Hunt 1: Copyright and Fair Use

Purdue OWL Strategies for Fair Use:

Questions:

1. What four factors need to be considered when determining fair use?
2. What purposes of usage of copyrighted materials in education are specifically mentioned in the Copyright Protection Law as fair use? 

Answers:

1. What is the purpose of the use?
What is the nature of the copyrighted work?
How much of the work will be used?
What is the market effect on the original work of the use?
2. Purposes that are specifically mentioned in the law include "criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching (including multiple copies for classroom use), scholarship, or research."

Hunt 2. Teaching and Copying from Printed Media

Copyright and Fair Use Guidelines for Teachers (quick guide to copyright and fair use in pdf format):

Suppose you want to copy and distribute a news article from a printed media (e.g. The Economist) to your class. 

Questions:

1. What is the main condition that allows you to do so?
2. What is the limitation on the length of the article?

Answers:

1.The magazine should be legally acquired (e.g. via subscription of your school)
2. Article should be less than 2500 words

Hunt 3. Using video in teaching

Center for Social Media Fair Use:

Questions:

1. Is it allowed to use the full length of a video material?
2. What are two main limitations on employing copyrighted material in media literacy lessons?

Answers:

1. Possible when needed but needs to be a legally acquired copy.
2. Whenever possible, educators should provide proper attribution and model citation practices that are appropriate to the form and context of use. Where illustrative material is made available in digital formats, educators should provide reasonable protection against third-party access and downloads.

Hunt 4 : Embedded videos on educational websites:

The Edublogger Educator's Guide for Fair Use, Copyright and Creative Commons:http://theedublogger.com/2012/02/09/the-educators-guide-to-copyright-fair-use-and-creative-commons/

Questions:

1. Where can you find free videos to embed on your educational website?

Answer: YouTube, Vimeo, WatchKnowLearn,

2. What is an important condition for embedding videos on educational website?

Answer: Only videos that give the embed option can be embedded on a website.

Hunt 5 : Using images for educational purposes

Stanford Copyright and Fair Use:

1. How many images by a single artist or photographer can be used in preparing educational materials?

Answer: No more than five

2. What are some websites where you can find images that are not copyrighted for using on an educational website?

Answer:
Creative Commons Search
StockVault.net – Free images from photographers around the world
Kozzi.com – One free photo per day
FindIcons.com – Huge resource for avatars or small images
Flickr Advanced Search – Use advanced search filters to show only CC licensed images
Morguefile – Free stock photos
Open Clipart Libary – Public domain clipart (Thanks Sue Lyon-Jones for link in comments!)

Hunt 6: Guidelines for using Multimedia works

Stanford Copyright and Fair Use:

1. How long can an instructor use a Power Point presentation with an embedded copyrighted motion media work?

Answer: Up to two years after the first use.

2. What is the limitation on using a copyrighted motion media work in an educator's presentation?

Answer: Up to 10% or three minutes, whichever is less, of a copyrighted motion media work—for example, an animation, video, or film image.

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