A five-part series
When it comes to copyright law and the application of fair use exceptions, ignorance is definitely not bliss! Learn how to educate yourselves and your students and avoid making a costly mistake!
You really did plan to find time over the summer to familiarize yourself
with the latest information on copyright law. You absolutely intended
to look up the fair use guidelines for using technology resources.
You truly meant to create a classroom copyright policy, locate
agencies that grant permissions to use copyrighted materials, write a
template for a permission request form, and locate sites to teach students
about the value of original work and the societal benefits of obeying
copyright laws. You just had a few other things to do.
So now you have a student who wants to include audio of a Beatles song
in a multimedia presentation about the 1960s, another who wants to include
the poem "Casey at the Bat" in a report on the World Series, and a third
who wants to post photographs of Gore and Bush to the class Web site.
What's an educator to do? Read Education World's five-part
series on copyright, fair use, and new technologies, that's what! We did
the work so you wouldn't have to!
Click Part 1: Copyrights and Copying Wrongs below to begin.
Article by Linda Starr
Education World®
Copyright © 2004 Education World
Originally published 08/23/1999
Updated 12/17/2004
