COPYRIGHT AND FAIR USE INTERNET SITES FOR EDUCATORS
Music and the copyright law How much do you understand about what you can download and use in the classroom. Do you know what fair use is? Find out the issues, ethics and procedures.
A Guide to the Use of Copyrighted Materials on Instructional Web Sites
Copyright Resources on the WWW This site draws together a number of links that explore the divergent issues in copyright, particularly the aspect of the law called "fair use." There are a number of tutorials that clarify and help order thinking on these issues. International coverage is included so that some understanding of copyright law in other parts of the world is provided. Links to important copyright papers and sample guidelines statements are included.
University of Texas Copyright Crash Course A most usefully designed tutorial on copyright concerns in academe. Includes a University of Texas set of guidelines.
Copyright Issues Copyright laws are complex and all too easy to break. With the rising popularity of the Web, copyright violations have become more difficult to discover and many copyright issues have come into question. The fact that most people misunderstand the basics of copyright law doesn't help. Test your knowledge of basic copyright laws.
10 Myths about Copyright Explained
The Educators' Lean and Mean No FAT Guide to Fair Use
20-Questions Fair Use Copyright Quiz
U.S. Copyright Office: http://lcweb.loc.gov/copyright/
Stanford Law Center: http://fairuse.stanford.edu/
University of Texas: (Useful Fair Use Test guidelines and permission forms) http://www.utsystem.edu/ogc/intellectualproperty/copypol2.htm
Penn State University: http://www.libraries.psu.edu/mtss/fairuse/fairhigh.html
Groton, Conn. Public School Copyright Implementation Manual: http://groton.k12.ct.us/mts/cimhp01.htm
Fair
Use for Educational Multimedia (Power Point Presentation):
http://www.libraries.psu.edu/mtss/fairuse/dalziel.html
Copyright Center: http://www.copyright.com
Reproducing Pictures, Photos, etc.
Goehner, D. (1997). An ethical edge in education: cognizance of copyrights and copy wrongs: http://www.goehner.com/copyright.htm
ACCEPTABLE USE POLICIES - a Handbook http://www.pen.k12.va.us/go/VDOE/Technology/AUP/home.shtml
Rothman, D. (I 997). Copyright and K-1 2: Who pays in the network era? http://www.ed.gov/Technology/Futures/rothman.html
Sabine Virtual School Copyright Resources