Article Education In Multimedia

Posted onFebruary 09, 2012 - 10:13 pm by Admin | 0 Comments

The increasing popularity of the Internet almost seems to correspond with a decreasing understanding of copyright law. Copyright means that the creator holds the rights to distribute his creation, and must be specifically asked for permission to use it unless it is part of the public domain. Educators, however, are allowed to use some copyrighted material if they follow the terms of Fair Use.

How Much is Permitted Without Specific Permission

Fair Use allows teachers and students to copy certain amounts of text based material for classroom use. A chapter of a book can be copied if only one copy is made, or if multiple copies are made and represent less than 10% or 1000 words of the book. Newspaper articles and other short writings, including web based works, follow the same rules as a chapter, though complete copies can be made if the work is less than 2,500 words. Poems can be copied in entirety if they are 250 words or less, otherwise only an excerpt of 250 words may be used.

Music and graphics follow slightly different rules. Music, unless part of the public domain, can only have 10% of the work copied, which includes print and audio forms. Graphics, including artwork, photographs, cartoons and charts, may be used in their entirety but not more than 5 from any one creator or 15% of a collection may be used each time.


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