Tuesday, August 30, 2011

Copyright and Fair Use

Answer the following questions after researching Copyright and Fair Use websites.

1)  What is Fair Use?

2)  How is Fair Use different from Copyright?

3)  To whom does Fair Use apply?

4)  Give 2 specific rules using Fair Use guidelines that apply to teachers, i.e. How many minutes of video can you use?





10 comments:

  1. Just a test to see if I'm able to post.

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  2. 1. Fair use means that you can use a portion of a copyrighted material without having to get permission from the author or publisher.
    2. Copyright is a law that protects an author or publisher's original work. Fair use allows the minimal use of copyrighted material to educators without a charge.
    3. Mainly for educators, news reporting, research, etc.
    4. For vidoes, text material and music the rule is 10% or 30 seconds. For photographs no more than 5 images from an artist.

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  3. 1. Fair use is designed to allow the use of copyright protected work for commentary, parody, news reporting, research and education without authorization from the original author.

    2. Copyright is a form of protection provided by the government to protect an original author's work. Fair use allows only a portion of that work to be used by someone else.

    3. Fair use is directed towards someone who would need the information/work for a commentary, parody, news report, research or education project.

    4.
    Rule 1- A Teacher may only use up to 10% of a copyrighted music.
    Rule 2-Teachers may use videos in the classroom without restrictions of length, percentage, or multiple uses.

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  4. 1. Fair use is primarily designed to allow the use of the copyright protected work for commentary, parody, news reporting, research and education.

    2. A Copyright is a law that protects on author's original work. Fair use allows others to use portions of that work under certain stipulations.

    3. Fair use is directed towards anyone who is using copyright protected work for commentary, parody, news reporting, research and education.

    4.
    Rule 1. Teachers may use up to 10% of a copyrighted music piece.

    Rule 2.Teachers may use videos in the classroom without restrictions of length, percentage, or multiple use

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  5. 1.Fair use is a doctrine in United States copyright law that allows limited use of copyrighted material without acquiring permission from the rights holders.

    2.Copyright is a legal device that provides the creator of a work of art or literature, or a work that conveys information or ideas, the right to control how the work is used. Copyright provides authors fairly substantial control over their work.

    3.Commentary, criticism, news reporting, research, teaching, library archiving, and scholarship are examples of “fair use”.

    4.Motion Media (aka film and videotape productions): Single copy of up to 3 minutes or 10% of the whole, whichever is less. Spontaneity is required.

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  6. 1. Fair use explicitly allows limited use of copyrighted materials for educational purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship and research.

    2. Copyright is the ownership of an intellectual property within the limits prescribed by a particular nation's or international law. Fair uses allows the limited used of copyrights for educational purposes.

    3. Fair uses is for anyone using a copyrighted work for educational purposes such as criticism, news reporting, comment, teaching, scholarship and research.

    4. Teachers can use up to 10% of Music and Videos for education.
    Teachers may make multiple copies of a printed work for classroom use an incorporate into multimedia for teaching class.

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  7. 1) Fair use allows for someone who doesn't hold a copyright on a specific work to use portions of the work without the copyright holder's permission, provided that the use is minimal. (Of course, there are always specifics regarding this.)

    2) Fair use is simply a legal defense.

    3) Fair use applies to teachers, educators, students, members of the media, commentators, or anyone creating a parody.

    4) You can use up to 10% or three minutes of a video, whichever is less. The same applies to music and its accompanying lyrics, if any.

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  8. 1. Fair use is primarily designed to allow the use of the copyright protected work for commentary, parody, news reporting, research and education. It can also be used as a legal defense in a copyright infringement case.

    2. Copyright is a form of protection privided by the government to the authors of "orginal works of authorship, including literacy, dramatic, musical, artistic, and certain other intellectual works." Fair use allows some of people's copyrighted works to be used without permission, but be minimal enough that it does not interfere with the copyright hoder's rights to reproduce and reuse the work.

    3. Fair use applies to criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, and research.

    4. 1.) Under fair use teachers can use prose, short story, short essay, and Web article as long as they follow the restriction: works of 2,500-4,999 words, 500 words may be copied.
    2.) Under fair use teachers can use poems, but cannot copy more than 250 words or no more than 2 printed pages.
    Teachers can use up to 3 minutes or 10% of the whole video.

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  9. 1.Fair use gives you permission to use small amount of copyrighted materials. Some examples would be commentary,news reporting, research, and teaching.
    2. Copyright protects certain kinds of work whether it is published or unpublished. Copyright gives the author of the work the legal right to determine how and if their work can reproduced, distributed, etc. Fair use allows copyrighted work to be used without permission of the author for educational purposes.
    3. Mainly to commentary,news reporting, research, and teaching.
    4. motion media: Single copy of up to 3 minutes or 10% of the whole, whichever is less.
    music: Single copy of up to 10% of a musical composition in print, sound, or multimedia form.
    copies of poems: Multiple copies of up to 250 words from longer poems.

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  10. 1)Fair use is copyright law that allows limited or partial use of copyrighted material without obtaining permission from the rights holders.
    2)Copyright is a legal way that provides the author of a work the right to control how his or her work is used and protects the author's original work.
    3)Teaching is a form of fair use among other things like commentary, criticism, news reporting, research, library archiving, and scholarship.
    4)Educators can use film and videotape productions only if a single copy of up to 10% of the whole is used.

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