copyrightchart CLASSROOM COPYRIGHT CHART According Medium What You Can Do The Fine Print to Printed Material ● Poem less than 250 words No more than one copy per ● Excerpt of 250 student. Usage must be: At words from a poem the "instance and greater than 250 inspiration of a single words teacher" and when the time ● Articles, stories, or frame doesn't allow enough essays less than time for asking permission. 2,500 words Only for one course in the ● Excerpt from a school. No more than nine longer work (10% of United instances per class per term work or 1,000 States (current news publications words, whichever is Teachers may make multiple Copyright such as newspapers can be less--but a minimum copies for classroom use. Office used more often). Don't of 500 words) create anthologies. ● One chart, picture, Circular 21 "Consumables" can't be diagram, graph, copied. Don't do it every cartoon or picture term (if time allows, seek per book or per permission). Can't be periodical issue directed by "higher ● Two pages (max) authority." Copying can't be from an illustrated substitute for buying. work less than 2,500 Copies may be made only words (like childrens from legally acquired books) originals. ● A chapter from a book ● An article from a periodical United ● Short story, short Teachers may make a single States essay, or short poem copy for teacher use for Copyright ● Chart, graph, Same as above. research or lesson Office diagram, drawing , preparation. cartoon, picture from a book, Circular 21 periodical or newspaper http://www.mediafestival.org/copyrightchart.html (1 of 5) [5/13/2001 1:03:54 PM] copyrightchart Section 108 Copyright ● Portions of a work The library must first A librarian may make up to Act (1976 ) ● An entire work determine that after three copies "solely for the as amended ● A work if "the "reasonable investigation purpose of replacement of a by the existing format in that copy...cannot be copy...that is damaged, Digital which a work is obtained at a fair price" or deteriorating, lost or stolen" Millenium stored has become that the format is obsolete. Copyright obsolete" Act Text for Use in Multimedia Projects Students may incorporate text Fair Use ● Same rights as Teachers may use for two in multimedia projects. Guidelines "Printed Material" years, after that permission Teachers may incorporate for above is required. Students may into multimedia for teaching Educational keep in portfolio for life. courses. Multimedia Video The material must legitimately acquired (a Teachers may use these legal copy). It must be used materials in the classroom in a classroom or similar without restrictions of length, place "dedicated to face-to- face instruction". Not for ● Videotapes percentage, or multiple use use as entertainment or (purchased) Section 110 reward. The use should be ● Videotape (rented) of the instructional. The place ● DVD Copyright should be a non-profit ● Laser Discs Act . educational institution. May be copied for archival If replacements are purposes or to replace lost, unavailable at a fair price or damaged, or stolen copies. are available only in obsolete formats (e.g., betamax videos). Video ("Motion Media") for Use in Multimedia Projects http://www.mediafestival.org/copyrightchart.html (2 of 5) [5/13/2001 1:03:54 PM] copyrightchart ● Videotapes "Proper attribution and Students "may use portions of ● DVD Fair Use credit must be noted for all lawfully acquired copyrighted ● Laser Discs Guidelines copyrighted works included works in their academic ● QuickTime Movies for in multimedia, including multimedia", defined as 10% ● Encyclopedias Educational those prepared under fair or three minutes (whichever (CDROM) Multimedia use."Tina Ivany, UC San Diego is less) of "motion media" 12/08/95 Video for Integration . into Video Projects ● Videotapes Fair Use Students "may use portions of The material must ● DVD Guidelines lawfully acquired copyrighted legitimately acquired (a ● Laser Discs for works in their academic legal copy, not bootleg or ● QuickTime Movies Educational multimedia" home recording). ● Encyclopedias Multimedia (CDROM) Illustrations and Photographs Single works may be used in ● Photograph their entirety but not more Fair Use Older illustrations may be ● Illustration than 5 images by an artist or Guidelines in the public domain, but ● Collections of photographer. From a for the collection may be photographs collection, not more than 15 Educational copyrighted. ● Collections of images or 10%, whichever is Multimedia illustrations less. Music for Integration into Multimedia / Video Projects Up to 10% of a copyrighted Some authorities site a musical composition may be Fair Use maximum length of 30 reproduced, performed and Guidelines seconds. ● Music displayed as part of a for (www.indiana.edu), some multimedia program Educational do not mention a maximum produced by an educator or Multimedia (Tina Ivany, UCSD, student for educational 12/08/95). See below. purposes. http://www.mediafestival.org/copyrightchart.html (3 of 5) [5/13/2001 1:03:54 PM] copyrightchart Computer Software Take aggressive action to monitor that copying is not Software by be lent by the taking place (for retention). library. Only one machine at a time Software may be installed at may use the program. home and at school. The number of machines Software may be installed on Section 107 being used must never multiple machines. and 108 of exceed the number of ● purchased software Software may be copied for Copyright licensed. ● licensed software archival use to replace lost, Act and If unavailable at fair or is damaged, stolen, copies. subsequent an obsolete format. Software can be distributed to amendments. The number of users via a network. simultaneous users must not Librarians may make exceed the number of archival copies. licenses. A network license may be required for multiple users. Internet Images may not be Images may be downloaded Fair Use reposted onto the Internet for student projects. Guidelines without permission. ● Internet connections for ● World Wide Web Sound files may be Educational Sound or music files may downloaded for use in Multimedia not be copied and posted on projects (see portion & DMCA the Internet without restrictions above) permission. Television Things get interesting when you want to retain tapes. ● Broadcast Minimum rights allow for ● ABC 10 school days. Enlightened Live "off the air" broadcasts ● NBC rights holders often allow may be used for instruction. ● PBS Congress for much more. PBS series Tapes made from broadcasts ● Tapes made from Reading Rainbow offers may be used for instruction. broadcast three year retention rights, for example. If you like it enough to keep it more than three years, buy it! http://www.mediafestival.org/copyrightchart.html (4 of 5) [5/13/2001 1:03:54 PM] copyrightchart Cable Television May be used with permission. The guidelines for ● CNN Many programs may be television programs were ● MTV retained for years --depending Cable defined by Congress before ● HBO (etc.) on the program. Check with Systems cable television was a ● Tapes made from Cable in the Classroom. (and their factor. Cable programs are cable. associations) not technically covered by the same guidelines as http://www.ciconline.org/main.cfm broadcast television. Film or Filmstrip . Copyright Policy and Guidelines "Teachers may duplicate a for ● 16 millimeter films single copy of a small California's These must be films or ● filmstrips portion...for teaching School filmstrips that you own. purposes" Districts, California Department of Education http://www.mediafestival.org Hall Return for updates to: [email protected] /copyrightchart.html Davidson Note: In the letter to Congressional Subcommittee Chair Kastenmeier dated 3/19/76 summarizing many of the above agreements, representatives of the Ad Hoc Committee of Educational institutions and Organizations of Copyright Law Revision and the Authors League of America, Inc., and the Association of American Publishers, Inc., state that these guidelines were "not intended to limit the types of copying permitted under the standards of fair use under judicial decision and which are stated in Section 107 of the Copyright Revision Bill. There may be instances in which copying which does not fall within the guidelines stated [above] may nonetheless be permitted under the criterion of fair use." For more detailed information and references to excellents books on copyright. For information on workshops,keynotes,seminars about copyright and other topics regarding technology and education visit http://www.mediafestival.org/halldavidson.html pdf. version of this chart http://www.mediafestival.org/copyrightchart.html (5 of 5) [5/13/2001 1:03:54 PM].