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In Your Online CoursesIn Your Online Courses

Brief Overview of Copyright in K-12 Brief Overview of Copyright in K-12 ClassroomsClassrooms

(eTech Ohio, 2011)(eTech Ohio, 2011)

Why You Should Know Copyright Law

With an increase in online teaching and learning courses there is...

•An increased demand for and use of digital images, audio and video files

•Additional possible situations for copyright infringement

•Potential for school or teachers to be in violation

•A need to provide students with appropriate modeling

(Wallace, 2004)

•"Digital technology makes it much easier to reproduce, distribute, and publish information" (Spinello, 2011, p. 123).

Copyright Guidelines You Should Know for Online Teaching & Learning

• Guidelines for Classroom Copying in Not-for-Profit Educational Institutions

• Guidelines for Educational Uses of Music

• Guidelines for Off-Air Recording of Broadcast Programming for Educational Purposes

• Fair Use Guidelines for Educational Multimedia

• Guidelines for the Educational Use of Digital Images

• Educational Fair Use Guidelines for Distance Learning

• Fair Use Guidelines for Electronic Reserve Systems

(Simonson, Smaldino, Albright, & Zvacek, 2003)

Copyright and Course Management Systems

•Licensing of digital course packs is required by the university or school through the Copyright Clearance Center (CCC)

•WebCT, Blackboard and XanEdu incorporate copyright-cleared professional publications for a fee

•Electronic Course Content Services (ECCS) provides quick clearances for electronic course packs and electronic reserves

(Simonson, et al, 2003)

Intellectual Property and Copyright

•Intellectual Property is a product that is a result from human creativity, such as inventions, movies, songs, designs, clothing, course content, lesson plans, teaching activities

•Copyright protects the expression, but not the idea, meaning the lesson plans are protected, but the way the plans are delivered is not

•Example: You cannot copy any of the courses in the Educational Technology program to create your own MA in Education, but you can create your own program using the ideas presented

(Waxer & Baum, 2006)

"The U.S. copyright law specified in the Technology, Education, and Copyright

Harmonization Act (TEACH Act, now codified in section 110(2) of the US Copyright Act) has

focused on how fair-use clauses allow greater opportunities for educators to use digital

materials for teaching" (Wallace, 2004, p. 94).

Acceptable Fair Use In Face-to-face Educational Settings

•10% or 1000 words of a copyrighted text

•10% but not more than 30 seconds of a musical work

•10% or three minutes of a motion picture

•An entire photo, but not more than five by the same creator

•10% or 2500 fields of a database

(Waxer & Baum, 2006, pp. 57-58)

Understanding the CONFU Fair Use Guidelines for Educational Multimedia

•Sets limits on the amount of copyrighted material that can be incorporated into multimedia projects without permission

•Permits the use of materials in entirety on a controlled Course Management System (CMS)

•Does not clarify the idea of Fair Use in the electronic classroom and lacks guidelines like those in a face-to-face classroom

(Simonson, et al, 2003)

Misconceptions in Digital Copyright

•Analog copyright license does not necessarily include permission for digital copies

•Materials found on the Internet are not automatically part of Public Domain

•A password protected website does not mean the same as a face-to-face classroom

(Wallace, 2004)

Copyright Reminders

•A © is not required to copyright

•Know the website you are using and if it allows deep-linking or requires external framing

•Permissions for copying and distributing materials in a face-to-face class does not extend to digital distribution

•A password protected CMS does not mean the same as a face-to-face classroom and as a result has a different set of rules

•Know the difference between intellectual rights and copyright

(Wallace, 2004)

References

eTech Ohio. (2011). Copyright and the web. [video]. iTunesU Ohio. Retrieved from http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=386803608

Simonson, M., Smaldino, S., Albright, M., & Zvacek, S. (Ed). (2003). Teaching and learning at a distance: Foundations of distance education. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson.

Spinello, R. (Ed). (2011). Cyberethics: Morality and law in cyberspace. Sudbury, MA: Jones and Bartlett Learning.

Wallace, L. (2004). Dealing with digital copyright issues in higher education: No is not a helpful institutional response. Journal Of Distance Education, 19(1), 92-104.

Waxer, B.M. & Baum, M.L. (2006). Internet surf and turf revealed: The essential guide to copyright, fair use, and finding media. Boston, MA: Thomson Course Technology.

Wilson, L. (2005). Fair use, free use and use by permission: How to handle copyrights in all media. New York, NY: Allworth Press.