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Go to this Web site for the exact legal stipulations of copyright in
education.
http://www4.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/110.html
This is also a useful site
http://www.umuc.edu/library/copy.html#teacher
I am including a thumb nail from this site for your use.
Types of media and permissible amounts
Motion media:
Up to 10 percent of the total or three minutes, whichever is less.
Text material:
Up to 10 percent of the total or 1,000 words, whichever is less.
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 authors in an anthology. For poems exceeding 250
words, 250 words should be used but
no more than three excerpts from one poet or five excerpts from
different poets in the same work
Music, lyrics, and music video:
up to 10 percent of the work but no more than 30 seconds of the music or
lyrics from an individual musical
work.
Illustrations or photographs:
no more than five images from one artist or photographer.
no more than 10% or 15 images, whichever is less, from a collection.
Numerical data sets:
up to 10 percent or 2,500 fields or cell entries, whichever is less, from
a copyrighted database or data
table.
Copying of a multimedia project:
no more than two copies may be made of a project.
I hope this helps to clarify things.
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Janice Johnson-Palmer
Instructional Technology
Seattle Public Schools
206.252.0499
Mailstop: 32-668
johnsonpalmer@seattleschools.org
http://fp.seattleschools.org/janice/Resources/index.html
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