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February 15, 2024
Renee Hobbs - Copyright Clarity
A Fair Use Scholar Talks About Copyright in
Education and Digital Learning


  1. Sign in, stowe your other devices, log into a Chromebook, and go to WYAW (While You Are Waiting).

  2. Renee Hobbs and Fair Use: Practical tool for students and teachers...
    Document the Fair Use Reasoning Process (Source: Media Lab)

  3. Let's explore more......https://mediaeducationlab.com/copyright
    copyright law

    determining fair use

    Let's assess this video for Fair Use....

    Video Clip from The Shining
    Soundtracks from: Disclosure, Indiana Jones, Mission Impossible, Jaws, Ace Ventura,The Shining

    Music can make a difference.....

    When we start creating digital stories, we'll see how.


  4. Groupwork: Collaborate on completing the fair use document for one of these scenarios

  5. Why is this important for NC Teachers and Students?
  6. COPYRIGHT: Movies in the Classroom
  7. copyright
    Source: https://guides.uflib.ufl.edu/copyright/video

    The Copyright Act at §110(1) (face to face teaching exemption) allows for the performance or display of video or film in a classroom where instruction takes place in [the] classroom with enrolled students physically present and the film is related to the curricular goals of the course.
    (Apr 8, 2021)

    Source: https://guides.library.duq.edu/copyright/showing-films

  8. What about using video in online classes or environments? If it's OK for online is it also OK for face-to-face?
    https://uri.libguides.com/fairuse/examples/video

    What about streaming movies from Disney Plus or Netflix?
    https://guides.uflib.ufl.edu/copyright/video (Scroll down the page)

    And finally, what about outside of a classroom for educational purposes?
    Disney Fines School for Showing Lion King at PTA Fundraiser
    Original Source: https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2020/02/04/disney-lion-king-school-fine/

  9. Creative Commons https://creativecommons.org/
    cc
    Want more information? https://creativecommons.org/about/cclicenses/

  10. Looking for media that has CC licences and that can or most likely can be used in accordance with Fair Use?
    Look for wikimedia commons and/or CC licensed material or .gov files since, in general, government files are in the public domain (https://www.loc.gov/rr/scitech/selected-internet/imagesources.html) including NASA (see here for more resources from NASA for educators https://www.nasa.gov/audience/foreducators/index.html).

  11. Some good copyright friendly websites for VISUALS (images and video):
    1. Pixabay (my fav),
    2. Wikimedia Commons,
    3. Pexels,
    4. Unsplash,
    5. Morguefile,
    6. Openverse

ROYALTY FREE MEDIA

  1. Media Resources from Penn State
    http://mediacommons.psu.edu/free-media-library/
  2. OER Commons: Free Digital Library and Network of Educational Resources
    https://www.oercommons.org/
  3. Music
    http://incompetech.com/music/royalty-free/music.html
  4. Speeches
    https://archive.org/details/Greatest_Speeches_of_the_20th_Century
  5. All Media, mostly Images
    https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page
  6. Wikipedia:Public domain image resources
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Public_domain_image_resources
  7. Public Domain Image Websites
    https://99designs.com/blog/resources/public-domain-image-resources/
  8. Access some fabulous visual and audio media collections at the Library of Congress (some but not all are in the Public Domain) https://www.loc.gov/library/libarch-digital.html
  9. Fair Use Information
    http://libguides.mssu.edu/copyright/fairuse/multimedia
  10. Creative Commons - CC licenses: https://creativecommons.org/about/platform