Copyright+Expectations

=What is Copyright?=

The right by law to be the **only** person who determines who may publish, copy, alter and distribute a piece of writing, music, picture or other work that you own. Copyright protects creative works (including software) from being reproduced, performed, or disseminated without permission. A Copyright can be sold or licensed to others. There are five rights that are given to copyright owners - the exclusive rights of reproduction, adaptation, publication, performance, and display.

If you didn't make it...you don't own it! You need to ask permission to use it! or locate something in Creative Commons or the public Domain! or just make your own!

You don't have permission to save, copy, alter, post or do anything with that material without permission form the original owner of the item. This includes but is not limited to; copying and pasting, right clicking and saving, downloading "free" music off the internet, copying a picture on a copy machine or scanner, or printing pictures and posting them for public view.

What if you use, display, copy, present or alter something that is copyright protected and you didn't get permission from the owner?
The penalties for infringement are very harsh: the court can award up to $150,000 for each separate act of willful infringement. **Willful infringement means that you knew you were infringing and you did it anyway.**

=** Basically... **= Check out these links for more information:
 * 1) If you didn't develop a written work, art, photograph, or music, or obtain distribution rights to it, you don't own it.
 * 2) If you don't own it, you can't copy or distribute it.
 * 3) Fair use allows copying of small portions of a work without the owner's permission, but only for criticism, education, and news reporting.
 * 4) When in doubt ask for permission to use a work.

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=What is Fair Use?= The copyright law and the courts have provided exceptions to the rules that protect teachers, students, and schools. Teachers are allowed to make "fair use" of materials for instructional purposes. "Fair use" has been made to include limited uses, which are not likely to deprive a publisher or an author from income.  As Stated in the Fair Use Guidelines for Educational Multimedia []

These uses are subject to the Portion Limitations listed in Section 4.They should include proper attribution and citation as defined in Sections6.2.
 * PREPARATION OF EDUCATIONAL MULTIMEDIA PROJECTS USING PORTIONS OF COPYRIGHTED WORKS**
 * __2.1 By__** __** Students :**__

Students may incorporate portions of lawfully acquired copyrighted works when producing their own educational multimedia projects for a specific course.

** 3. PERMITTED USES OF EDUCATIONAL MULTIMEDIA PROJECTS CREATED UNDER THESE GUIDELINES ** Uses of educational multimedia projects created under these guidelinesare subject to the Time, Portion, Copying and Distribution Limitations listed in Section 4.

Students may perform and display their own educational multimedia projects created under Section 2 of these guidelines for educational uses in the course for which they were created and may use them in their own portfolios as examples of their academic work for later personal uses such as job and graduate school interviews. Students shall be advised that they are not permitted to make their own copies of the educational multimedia project.
 * __3.1 Student Use:__ **

The preparation of educational multimedia projects incorporating copyrighted works under Section 2, and the use of such projects under Section 3, are subject to the limitations noted below.

Students may use their educational multimedia projects as noted in Section 3.1. **
 * 4. LIMITATIONS - TIME, PORTION, COPYING AND DISTRIBUTION **

Portion limitations mean the amount of a copyrighted work that can reasonably be used in educational multimedia projects under these guidelines regardless of the original medium from which the copyrightedworks are taken. **In the aggregate** means the total amount of copyrighted material from a single copyrighted work that is permitted to be used in an educational multimedia project without permission under these guidelines. These limitations apply cumulatively to each educator's or student's multimedia project(s) for the same academic semester, cycle or term. All students should be instructed about the reasons for copyright protection and the need to follow these guidelines. Any such project retained under Sections 3.1 and 4.3 should comply with the portion limitations in this section
 * 4.2 Portion Limitations**

Up to 10% or 3 minutes, whichever is less, in the aggregate of a copyrighted motion media work may be reproduced or otherwise incorporated as part of an educational multimedia project created under Section 2 of these guidelines.
 * Motion Media**

Up to 10% or 1000 words, whichever is less, in the aggregate of a copyrighted work consisting of text material may be reproduced or otherwise incorporated as part of an educational multimedia project created under Section 2 of these guidelines. An entire poem of less than 250 words may be used, but no more than three poems by one poet, or five poems by different poets from any anthology may be used. For poems of greater length, 250 words may be used but no more than three excerpts by a poet, or five excerpts by different poets from a single anthology may be used. Up to 10%, but in no event more than 30 seconds, of the music and lyrics from an individual musical work (or in the aggregate of extracts from an individual work), whether the musical work is embodied in copies or audio or audiovisual works, may be reproduced or otherwise incorporated as a part of a multimedia project created under Section 2. Any alterations to a musical work shall not change the basic melody or the fundamental character of the work.
 * 4.2.2 Text Material**
 * 4.2.3 Music, Lyrics, and Music Video**

The reproduction or incorporation of photographs and illustrations is more difficult to define with regard to fair use because fair use usually precludes the use of an entire work. Under these guidelines a photograph or illustration may be used in its entirety but no more than 5 images by an artist or photographer may be reproduced or otherwise incorporated as part of an educational multimedia project created under Section 2. When using photographs and illustrations from a published collective work, not more than 10% or 15 images, whichever is less, may be reproduced or otherwise incorporated as part of an educational multimedia project created under Section 2.
 * 4.2.4 Illustrations and Photographs**

Up to 10% or 2500 fields or cell entries, whichever is less, from a copyrighted database or data table may be reproduced or otherwise incorporated as part of an educational multimedia project created under Section 2 of these guidelines. A field entry is defined as a specific item of information, such as a name or Social Security number, in a record of a database file. A cell entry is defined as the intersection where a row and a column meet on a spreadsheet.
 * 4.2.5 Numerical Data Sets**

What are Creative Commons?

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Creative Commons is a ** nonprofit ** corporation dedicated to making it easier for people to share and build upon the work of others, consistent with the rules of copyright. We provide ** free ** licenses and other legal tools to mark creative work with the freedom the creator wants it to carry, so others can share, remix, use commercially, or any combination thereof.
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= **Attribution ** = This license lets others distribute, remix, tweak, and build upon the author's work, even commercially, as long as they credit the author for the original creation. This is the most accommodating of licenses offered, in terms of what others can do with the author's works licensed under Attribution. Share Alike ** This license lets others remix, tweak, and build upon the author's original work even for commercial reasons, as long as they credit tha author and license the new creations under the identical terms. This license is often compared to open source software licenses. All new works based on the author's will carry the same license, so any derivatives will also allow commercial use.
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This license lets others remix, tweak, and build upon the author's work non-commercially, and although the new works must also acknowledge the author and be non-commercial, they don’t have to license their derivative works on the same terms No Derivative Works **
 * Noncommercial [[image:http://i.creativecommons.org/l/by-nc/3.0/88x31.png]] **
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This license is the most restrictive of the six main licenses, allowing redistribution. This license is often called the “free advertising” license because it allows others to download the author's work and share them with others as long as they mention you and link back to you, but they can’t change them in any way or use them commercially. .

**Public Domain** A public domain work is a creative work that is not protected by copyright and which may be freely used by everyone. []

Freebies: Of course everyone has guidelines for using their stuff for "free" so be sure to read all the terms of use before using. You won't find your favorite artists here but you might find a great music beat that you could use for a project! You won't find the famous painting here but you might discover a new artist. You won't find

[|www.pics4learning.com] Pics4Learning is a copyright-friendly image library for teachers and students. The Pics4Learning collection consists of thousands of images that have been donated by students, teachers, and amateur photographers. Unlike many Internet sites, permission has been granted for teachers and students to use all of the images donated to the Pics4Learning collection

Free clipart---[] Make sure you read their terms of use to be sure you follow their rules! Free music--[] Free Videos--[] Free Images--[]
 * Civil War
 * Depression Era
 * EduPic
 * Geo-Images Project
 * Maps
 * NASA Image eXchange
 * Roosevelt Presidential Library
 * US Air Force
 * US Fish and Wildlife Service
 * US Navy Images