Opening Up to Fair Use

Teachers Teaching Teachers is a weekly webcast on the EdTechTalk channel that has published an interesting conversation with Peter Jaszi about Opening up to Fair Use. Jazsi is from the Program on Information Justice and Intellectual Property at Washington College of Law and has conducted different studies about teachers and their knowledge about copyright.

Take a look at the Power Poin presentation and clik here if you want to listen to the conversation.

Fair Use Song

Ready to Rock?

If you consider yourself a person who learns by listening more than by reading, take a look at this creative song made by Michael RobbGrieco, Geoffrey Beatty and Danielle Keenan .

Code of Best Practices for Fair Use in Media Literacy Education

The School of Comunications and Theater at Temple Universty has published a Code of Best Practices for Fair Use in Media Literacy Education that "helps educators gain confidence about their rights to use copyrighted materials in developing students' critical thinking and communication skills". They have designed tools as videos, power point presentations, podcast and more to share information about Fair Use.

Take a look at its very creative tools here.

Taking the Mystery out of Copyright

Taking the Mystery out of Copyright is an interactive story created by the Library of Congress of the United States so children learn about copyright. This story is divided in four chapters: Copyright exposed, files on record, reading the fine print and steps to copyright.

Click on the image to know more about this story.

Useful Chart to Keep in Mind

Technology and learning has designed a very useful chart for teachers to know what to do in terms of Fair Use. This chart describes different medium and explains what the teacher can do and how can do it.
To have a copy of this chart, visit here.

For more detailed information about
Fair Use guidelines and copyright resources visit here.

It Can Be That Easy When You Skip the Intermediaries

Creative Commons (CC) is a " non-profit organization devoted to expanding the range of creative work available for others legally to build upon and share". This video explains why is it easier when you skip the intermediariaries.

Fair Use for Media Literacy Education

The initiative of different educator in United Stated allowed the creation of the Code of Best Practices in Fair Use for Media Literacy Education.

Take a look at this video that explains the creation of this code. You can also have access to a copy of the full report here.

Fair Use - Can and Can't Do

KOCE-TV has developed a series of videos called "Copyright for Educators". Within this serie, there is a special episode about Fair Use. Take a look a this video to learn about what can and can't do while teaching your students.

Fair Use - Basics

If you wan to know the basics of Fair Use take a look at this power point presentation.

Copyright and fair use for teachers

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