The document provides information about copyright law and fair use through a virtual library with different rooms covering topics like the copyright room, fair use room, creative commons room, and myths and truths rooms. It addresses common misconceptions around copyright and outlines what is and isn't allowed under copyright law and fair use guidelines through interactive text and questions.

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5. What Copyright Means
Copyright right to copy
This protects how ideas are presented
This does not protect ideas
You can not copyright facts
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6. Myths
The internet is
Anything I use public domain,
for schoolwork is so I can use
Fair Use It is okay to anything I find
use if I do
not charge
for it
Plagiarism is
not a real
crime, so I can
not get in
trouble
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7. Truths
Copyright laws
are intended to
protect the author
For educational or creator’s
purposes you can rights.
use a portion of
others copyrighted
work with out their
permission.
Fair Use laws
allow for copying
of someone
else's work with
out their
permission.
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8. Penalties
What is the Infringer pays the actual
Penalty for dollar amount of damages
Infringement and profits.
? The law provides a range
from $200 to $150,000 for
each work infringed.
The infringer can go to jail.
To avoid infringement….
Check the terms of use for the image
Cite every image you use
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9. You Can Use Copyrighted
Images If…..
Not for commercial use
Do not infringe on main
copyright idea
Does not affect the market
for the original work
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10. Fair Use Myths
MYTH: FAIR USE IS MYTH: FAIR USE MYTH: IF I’M NOT
TOO UNCLEAR AND COULD GET ME MAKING ANY MONEY OFF
COMPLICATED FOR ME. SUED. IT, IT’S FAIR USE.
TRUTH: The fair use TRUTH:
provision of the Copyright TRUTH: That’s very, "Noncommercial use" can
Act is written broadly—not very unlikely. We don’t be a plus in fair use
narrowly—because it is know of any lawsuit analysis, but its scope is
designed to apply to a actually brought by an hard to define. Some public
wide range of creative American media uses may be unfair, even if
works and the people who company against an no money is exchanged.
use them. educator over the use
of media in the
educational process.
The copyright owner
typically will send a
"cease and desist"
letter.
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11. Why Creative Commons?
Mission:
Creative Commons develops,
supports, and stewards legal and technical
infrastructure that maximizes digital
creativity, sharing, and innovation.
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12. Licenses
Noncommercial (NC) No Derivative Works (ND)
Any use of the work must be Only verbatim copies of the
for noncommercial purposes work may be used. In other
only. That means file sharing, words, you can’t change the
educational use and film work in any way. You need to
festivals are all ok, but get extra permission if you
advertising and for-profit uses want to crop a photo or edit
are not. down text.
Share Alike: Any new
Attribution: You must
work produced using
credit the creator, the
this material must be
title ,and the license the
made available under
work is under.
the same terms. So if
you do remix a work you
have to release your
new work under the Return to
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13. If I print, copy, and distribute
material from the Internet I
am not violating the copyright
law.

14. If an article online doesn't have
the copyright symbol, then it is
not consider copyrighted material.

15. The copyright law
protects an online web
page document.

16. If the owner of the
copyrighted item doesn't
protect their copyright
works, they lose it.

17. E-mail messages that are
posted online aren't
considered copyrighted
material.

18. It is legal to use a small
portion of copyrighted material
for education purposes.

19. It is illegal to scan images
out of a book or magazine to
one's web site.

20. According to the copyright
law, an individual has to
obtain permission from the
owner of the "original works"
if he or she is interested in
copying, altering, and/or
distributing information
collected from the Internet.
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21. This was true until the
revision of the 1989 copyright
law, which states that it is not
necessary to indicate a
copyright symbol and/or
statement on "original works"
in order for it to be protected
by copyright law.
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22. Copyright protects original
works of authorship that are
fixed in a tangible form of
expression. An on-line web
page is considered a tangible
form.
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23. Copyright is never lost,
unless it is given away.
However, if a piece of material
was created prior to the
revision of the 1989 copyright
law and the "owner" of the
copyrighted works did not
renew the copyright, that
particular piece of work is
now in the public domain.
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24. Copyright protects original
works of authorship that are
fixed in a tangible form of
expression. Email is consider
original work.
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25. It is legal to use a small portion
or copyrighted material for
educational purposes such as
teaching materials, media
projects and/or research
documents and non-educational
purposes. Including material
used for a discussion piece or
comment section. (Fair Use).
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26. You can't freely scan images
from a book or magazine. You
can however scan your own
photograph or images you
have created to your web site.
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34. Resources
• http://www.lib.purdue.edu
• www.copyright.gov
• www.rightsforartists.com
• fairuse.stanford.edu
• www.copyright.com
• http://www.centerforsocialmedia.org/fair-use/related-materials/codes/code-best-practices-fair-use-media-literacy-ed
• http://literacy.kent.edu/Oasis/Workshops/copyquiz.html
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