RE: tictech: Copyright and the rights of teachers and students

From: Johnson-Palmer, Janice (johnsonpalmer@seattleschools.org)
Date: Tue Jan 21 2003 - 11:02:48 PST

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    -tictech message:

    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.
    --------------------------
    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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