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Today’s K–12 students are commonly called “digital natives” because they have grown up with digital technology. But natives can run wild, using the Internet to (wittingly or unwittingly) plagiarize others’ work or bully peers using social media.
Jonathan Worth's photograph of blogger and Creative Commons supporter Cory Doctorow
BBC News - Copyright group Creative Commons targets web users
A closely watched trial in federal court in Atlanta, Cambridge University Press et al. v.
What's at Stake in the Georgia State Copyright Case - The Chronicle Review - The Chronicle of Higher Education
Courts have ruled on the question of fair use in numerous cases, and the following summaries offer insight into the relatively moderate number of cases that are particularly instructive for the university community. Seldom have courts had to rule in cases that are specifically about the work of academics, so we most often need to derive lessons from cases raising comparable issues.
Case Summaries — Columbia Copyright Advisory Office
Copyright & Fair Use - Summaries of Fair Use Cases
In 2008, a district court ruled that prior to requesting a takedown notice, a copyright owner must consider the likelihood of a claim of fair use. In that case, Universal Music issued a takedown notice for a video of a child dancing to the song, “Let’s Go Crazy,” by Prince.The 1998 Digital Millennium Copyright Act makes it illegal to bypass the software "locks" on DVDs and other digital media, colloquially known as Digital Rights Management. Every three years, however, the Copyright Office of the United States reviews petitions to create specific exemptions to this ban on circumvention. In the 2006 rulemaking, University of Pennsylvania professors Peter Decherney, Katherine Sender, and Michael Delli Carpini successfully petitioned for an exemption for media professors making clips for teaching purposes.
Educational Use of Media: Exemptions to the DMCA
U.S. Copyright Office - Copyright Law of the United States
The text of U.S. copyright law available here, which is title 17 of the United States Code, is now completely up to date, and includes the amendments in 2009 and 2010 extending the section 119 satellite statutory license ( Pub.
Provide you with a time-stamped, PDF document for your records [example] , which could prove valuable, should you ever be asked by a copyright holder to provide your fair use evaluation and the data you used to support it. [why is this important?]
Fair Use Evaluator
FairlyUsed RT @ copyrightlibn : An Easy-ish Copyright Question: do libraries have fair use rights? Yep, says @ ARLpolicy http://t.co/yuLoVwno 25 days ago reply
Stanford Copyright & Fair Use Center
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
List of copyright case law - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Digital Millennium Copyright Act ("DMCA") is a law that criminalizes production and dissemination of technology, devices, or services intended to circumvent measures that control access to copyrighted works.
Digital Millennium Copyright Act - Definition, Court Cases, Articles, History - LawBrain
In this module, you get to apply your understanding of copyright law and policy. The following scenarios prompt you to think through specific situations/questions and use your increased knowledge of copyright to provide answers to those questions and situations.
Copyright 101 :: Module 3 : Introduction
Campaigning for Fair Use: Public Service Announcements on Copyri
4_1_2010 Nice, creative lesson plan on copyright... that looks engaging! by Apr 1
Kathy Schrock's Home Page -- Public Service Announcements
4_1_2010 good resources and video.. by Apr 1