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Janice did a nice job of providing resources on fair use. Tony's point about
being confused when you change the forum for distribution is still a good
one. Fair use in the classroom has always been a little murky but many
institutions have set guidelines like those shared by Graham. The Digital
Millennium Copyright Act complicates matters for educators when they put
material on the web. Fair use guidelines assume that you use materials in a
forum that you can have reasonable expectations of controlling. This is
important since fair use also assumes limited distribution. When you place
content on the web, you loose that control and can no longer truly limit
distribution and fair use. In general it is not a good idea to use
copyrighted material on the web without permission.
http://thecopyrightsite.org/faq.html#classonweb
A good resource for educators in a digital environment is
http://www.dpi.state.nc.us/copyright1.html
It is also important to note that not selling or making a profit from a
piece of copyrighted work doesn't safeguard you from infringing on its
copyright. Damage to copyrighted material's value can result from use or
distribution that doesn't involve money. See myths about copyright
http://thecopyrightsite.org/myths/index.html (from the University of Alabama
College of Education)
Eric Caldwell
Instructional Technology
Seattle School District
206.366.2614
13720 Roosevelt Way North
Seattle, WA 98133
ecaldwell@seattleschools.org
-----Original Message-----
From: Graham Ford [mailto:fordgj@u.washington.edu]
Sent: Monday, January 20, 2003 11:07 PM
To: TicTech
Subject: tictech: Copyright and the rights of teachers and students
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The other day at the ET meeting there was discussion of the use of
commercially distributed music in a first grade science project. What
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