and the PA Discovery Educator Network blog. Jennifer Dorman is a Keystone Technology Integrator, a STAR Discovery Educator, and was recently accepted for a week's training to become a Google Certified Educator.
Copied directly from Jennifer Dorman's Copyright and Fair Use Presentation on Grazing for Digital Natives. Please note what may and may not be used.
Copyright and Fair Use Information for Education
(Note: The recommendations for the amount of copyrighted material that can be used in educational settings based on the Fair Use provisions of the Copyright Act are not LAW. They are guidelines based on the recommendations of academia and Congressional Committees. More links for reference are posted in the For Further Research section below.)
Notwithstanding the provisions of sections 106 and 106A, the fair use of a copyrighted work, including such use by reproduction in copies or phonorecords or by any other means specified by that section, for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching (including multiple copies for classroom use), scholarship, or research, is not an infringement of copyright. In determining whether the use made of a work in any particular case is a fair use the factors to be considered shall include—
the purpose and character of the use, including whether such use is of a commercial nature or is for nonprofit educational purposes;
the nature of the copyrighted work;
the amount and substantiality of the portion used in relation to the copyrighted work as a whole;
and the effect of the use upon the potential market for or value of the copyrighted work.
Students may use portions of lawfully acquired copyrighted works in their academic multimedia projects, with proper credit and citations. They may retain them in personal portfolios as examples of their academic work.
Students and teachers must include on the opening screen of their programs and on any printed materials that their presentation has been prepared under fair use exemption of the U.S. Copyright Law and are restricted from further use.
Educators may claim fair use for their own productions providing these productions are:
For face-to-face curriculum-based instruction
Demonstrations of how to create multimedia productions
Presented at conferences (but you may not share copies of the actual production)
For remote instruction as long as the distribution signal is limited
Kept for only 2 years
Fair use ends when the multimedia creator loses control of his product's use, such as when it is accessed by others over the Internet.
Educators or students need not write for permission if their presentation falls within the specific multimedia fair use guidelines; however, educators and students are advised to note that if there is a possibility that their own educational multimedia project incorporating copyrighted works under fair use could later result in broader dissemination, whether or not as commercial product, it is strongly recommended that they take steps to obtain permissions during the development process for all copyrighted portions rather than waiting until after completion of the project.
Posted on the PA DEN blog by Jennifer Dorman: "If you can’t play YouTube videos at school, check out these options for converting online media into a local file to play from your computer. All you need is the URL of the YouTube video." Dorman's options were created on Google Notebook and are an excellent way to convert YouTube videos for IP.
