1. WHAT EDUCATORS NEED TO KNOW
ABOUT FAIR USE AND COPYRIGHT
Anna Baker
EME 5207: Designing
Technology-Rich Curricula
Educational Fair Use and
Copyright Presentation

2. Code of Best Practices in Fair Use for Media Literacy
Education is based on five main principles:
1. EMPLOYING COPYRIGHTED MATERIAL IN MEDIA
LITERACY LESSONS
2. EMPLOYING COPYRIGHTED MATERIAL IN
PREPARINGCURRICULUM MATERIALS
3. SHARING MEDIA LITERACY CURRICULUM
MATERIALS
4. STUDENT USE OF COPYRIGHTED MATERIALS IN
THEIR OWN ACADEMIC AND CREATIVE WORK
5. DEVELOPING AUDIENCES FOR STUDENT WORK

3. Fair Use Defined:
• Fair use is the right to use copyrighted
material without permission or
payment under some circumstances.

4. Media Literacy Education
• Media Literacy plays a huge role in
developing critical thinking and
communication skills

5. What does this mean for educators?
We must use and share media to
increase those critical thinking and
communication skills

6. Key Questions to ask:
– “Did the unlicensed use “transform” the
material taken from the copyrighted work
by using it for a different purpose than that
of the original, or did it just repeat the work
for the same intent and value as the
original?”
– “Was the material taken appropriate in
kind and amount, considering the nature
of the copyrighted work and the use?”

7. How would you have answered?
-Answers of “yes” would be
considered Fair Use

8. Creative Commons
Creative Commons is an organization that offers free
legal tools to enable the use of a wide variety of images.
Creative Commons offers licenses to give varying levels
of permission based on your choice. Publishing work
under the Creative Commons license protects the
people who might use the work as long as they follow
the conditions you have set up for them. Besides the
publishing benefits offered by Creative Commons it also
offers creative works that can used to supplement
lessons or other creative pieces. The works include
videos, images, academic supplements and more.
Creative Commons serves as a way to balance
copyright laws and the vast world of the Internet.

9. FlickR (http://www.flickr.com/):
• FlickR by Yahoo was developed for
two purposes:
1. Making photos available to others
2. Serves a place to organize photos
and videos

10. FlickR and Creative Commons
• FlickR and Creative Commons work together to
share pictures/videos that have the appropriate
licensing for educators to utilize what is found under
specific search tags.
• Simple Steps to follow:
-Click on the search button
-Click on advanced Search (to find images licensed by
Creative Commons)
-Click on filters that will give you images that do not deal
with Fair Use
-Authors might want you to give them credit if you use
their image

11. Websites to View:
The Code of Best Practices in Fair Use for Media Literacy Education
(http://online.education.ufl.edu/file.php/4742/05DigitalCitizen/CodeofBestPracticesinFairUse.pdf):
Copyright in the K-12 Classroom (http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/Teachers/copyrightlaw.html):
Creative Commons (http://creativecommons.org/):
A Shared Culture (http://creativecommons.org/videos/a-shared-culture):
Different Licensing Option (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/):
FlickR (http://www.flickr.com/):
FlickR and Creative Commons
(http://www.screencast.com/users/KaraD/folders/Jing/media/7233f311-59f7-46e6-9c8a-
8feb42803f60):