An Educatorís guide to copyright

An Educatorís guide to copyright

A good site for lots of information on all kinds of copyright and ìcopy wrongî issues. The part on new technologies gives exact amounts and times for use of various medium.

http://www.education-world.com/a_curr/curr280.shtml

Great site for copyright into.

http://www.kcsd.k12.pa.us/technology/copyright/

From the previous site

Case Studies of Fair Use ñ you read and decide if it is under the guidelines

http://www.kcsd.k12.pa.us/technology/copyright/studies.html

Youíll need adobe to read this one ñ Chart of exactly what you can use and how much (pages, time, percent, etc.) you can use/keep

http://www.techlearning.com/db_area/archives/TL/2002/10/copyright_chart.pdf

Good site on copyright basics!!

http://www.fno.org/jun96/legal.html#Copyright

It has a pretty simple explanation of Copyright law for each medium (print, digital, video, photos) and how/when they can be use. It also has a sample permission letter to use for copying items into a project. Lots of links.

http://www.lib.purdue.edu/uco/basics/index.html

Explains the principles by which fair use is decided

http://dmc.umn.edu/IP/principles.shtml

Rules of Public Domain

Explains when something becomes public domain

http://www.unc.edu/~unclng/public-d.htm

Really good K-12 site