Digital Citizenship Curriculum. Legal Advice - Introduction. Education: Copyright Basics. Ampal guide to print music final. Copyright for Educators - SCIS. Introduction In today's digital environment, teachers and students are connected by an ever-increasing number of devices to a world of online content. This article provides some smart copying tips to help teachers to actively manage copyright costs while complying with their copyright obligation. It also tackles the tricky issues of YouTube and iTunes. Although copyright can be complex, remembering the five Ls can help you to manage the risks and costs associated with using other people's content: Look for Open Education Resources and use these as much as possible.Link instead of copying whenever this is an option.Limit the amount you copy to what you actually need for educational purposes.Label the content with the details of its author, owner, source, and the basis on which you are copying it.Later delete or archive the content once you no longer require it for educational purposes.
The National Copyright Unit (NCU) provides guidance to teachers and schools about copyright. Linking. Copyright in a Digital World - Open Education Resources 18 June 2014 ISLA Day Jessica Smith National Copyright Officer National Copyright Unit. National Copyright Unit, COAG Education Council | SlideShare. Home | The Australian Digital Alliance | ADA. Home | The Australian Digital Alliance | ADA. Copyright and Fair Use. Copyright - Music in Australia - Knowledge Base. Overview of Copyright Law Australian Copyright Law Copyright law creates incentives for people to invest their time, talent and other resources in creating new material – particularly cultural and educational material. Copyright owners are entitled to control certain uses of their material, and on this basis are able to earn royalties, licensing fees and other payments. They are also generally able to control how other people use the material, and thereby protect their interests.
In Australia, copyright law is set out in the Copyright Act 1968 (Cth). Copyright protects specific categories of material – including literary, artistic, musical and dramatic works, audiovisual recordings and sound recordings. There is no registration of copyright in Australia and no formalities are required in order to get copyright. Copyright is a form of property. Copyright generally lasts until 70 years from the end of the year the creator died.
For more information about copyright generally, see reference[1] Music Rights Australia - Copyright FAQs. What is copyright? Who owns the copyright in a piece of music? How do I know if a recording is still protected by copyright? Can I copy and distribute music even if I'm not making money out of it? What if I download music from a site from a different country than the one I'm in, where the law might be different? How do I know if the website I am using is legitimate? What are the penalties for breaching copyright? What is copyright? Copyright protects the expression of an idea by conferring exclusive rights on the owner; it encourages people to 'create'. In Australia, there is no need for copyright registration, nor is there a legal requirement to put a copyright notice on a piece of work. Who owns the copyright in a piece of music? In any given musical track, there is usually more than one copyright owner: The composer who wrote the music owns copyright in the musical works.
Finally, the maker of the recording (typically a record company) owns copyright in the sound recording. Music Communities. Below is a list of exemplary music communities that utilize our tools, typically by enabling users to upload content under one of our free licenses. If there is a community we are missing, please add it to our wiki as this page is periodically updated.
For more information, see our related page on Creative Commons Record Labels. SoundCloud Berlin, Germany Soundcloud is a music sharing community that allows artists to upload its works under the full suite of CC licenses. Its set of tools integrate nicely across the web, with adoptions from well known artists and labels. Free Music Archive Jersey City, NJ The Free Music Archive is a project from WFMU that focuses on aggregating and curating high quality, freely licensed content – the majority of which is CC-licensed. CcMixter San Francisco/San Diego, CA ccMixter is an online remix community focused on enabling derivative musical works on a large scale. Indaba Music Bandcamp Jamendo OpSound Tribe of Noise Airborne restorm. Copyright | APRA AMCOS Australia. Copyright is free and automatic That's right - you don’t have to do anything to ‘get’ copyright; it is there from the moment you write down the song. So as soon as you create a new song or piece of music, you have copyright in it.
Here are some common misconceptions about what's needed to copyright your songs and compositions: Copyright law enables creators to make a living from their work. The Australian Copyright Act gives songwriters and composers the right to control how their music is used. So whenever music is played in public, the songwriter or composer who wrote it might be entitled to royalties.
This is where APRA AMCOS can help you. We look after the performing, communication and mechanical copyright of songwriters, composers and music publishers in Australia. What is a performing right? Songwriters and composers own the right to have their original music performed in public. . · play their songs/compositions live at a venue or an event What is a communication right? APRA AMCOS vs. Overview | Teaching Copyright. As today's tech-savvy teens become increasingly involved with technology and the Internet for learning, work, civic engagement, and entertainment, it is vital to ensure that they understand their legal rights and responsibilities under copyright law and also how the law affects creativity and innovation. This curriculum is designed to give teachers a comprehensive set of tools to educate students about copyright while incorporating activities that exercise a variety of learning skills. Lesson topics include: the history of copyright law; the relationship between copyright and innovation; fair use and its relationship to remix culture; peer-to-peer file sharing; and the interests of the stakeholders that ultimately affect how copyright is interpreted by copyright owners, consumers, courts, lawmakers, and technology innovators.
Unit Goals Educate students about copyright law, including the concepts of fair use, free speech, and the public domain. Objectives for Students Assessment. Welcome To The FACE Kids Site. Nine copyright-friendly sites for student multimedia projects. Teaching Copyright in the Age of Computers and Mashups. I wish I could say that teaching students about copyright is easy, because in a world where digital tools are making creating and sharing content easier than ever, understanding copyright is incredibly important. But intellectual property law is exceedingly complex, making even a nominal introduction to the ideas surrounding copyright -- copyright law, fair use, the public domain -- a challenge. Google tried its hand earlier this year, launching YouTube Copyright School, an effort to educate the video-sharing site's users about intellectual property law.
Of course, YouTube has long had to battle complaints and lawsuits -- most often from record labels and film studios -- that the video-sharing site is awash in copyright infringements. YouTube does take measures to pull content when an infringement claim is made, and it has had a longstanding policy to ban users who repeatedly post videos that violate copyright. "Contact a copyright attorney.
" Copyright in a Copy Paste World. Choose a License. Smartcopying for Australian Schools and TAFE. Australian Copyright Council. Copyright - Music in Australia - Knowledge Base. Copyright & OER - 2019 Technology Toolbox For Educators. Royalty-free concept Royalty Free does not mean FREE. It is a type of license used by stock photography agencies to sell stock images. This license type grants the buyer a determined set of rights to use the image in multiple ways, for a flat, one-time fee.
This means you pay for the license only once, and you can use it forever within the accepted ways, without any further payment obligations (Stockphotoguides.com, 2016, para. 1). OER & Free to share concept "OER are materials licensed in such a way as to allow free access and use by anyone in the world"Curtin University, 2011, section: What are they, para. 1) There are many free-to-share and open educational resources (OERs) available on the web that can support student learning.
The concept of open education resources (OERs) is based on the educational values of sharing knowledge and being creative, therefore it is not surprising that "Educators are the largest a Creative Commons (CC) adopters and proponents" (jessica, 2012, para. 3). Finding CC Materials Yahoo edu. Copyright laws - Digital Citizenship. Copyright does not protect ideas, concepts, styles or techniques.
For example, copyright will not protect an idea for a film or book, but it will protect a script for the film or even a storyboard for the film. Basically, copyright only protects creativity that is in a tangible medium. The types of works copyright protects include: Artistic Works - paintings, photographs, maps, graphics, cartoons, charts, diagrams and illustrations Literary Works - novels, textbooks, poems, song lyrics, newspaper articles, computer software, computer games Musical Works - melodies, song music, advertising jingles, film scores Dramatic works - plays, screenplays and choreography Films and Moving Images - Feature films, short films, documentaries, television programs, interactive games, television advertisements, music videos and vodcasts Sound Recordings - MP3 files, CDs, DVDs, vinyl and tape recordings, podcasts.
Broadcasts - Pay and Free to air television and radio. 1. What is a Copyright? Fundamentally, copyright is a law that gives you ownership over the things you create. Be it a painting, a photograph, a poem or a novel, if you created it, you own it and it’s the copyright law itself that assures that ownership. The ownership that copyright law grants comes with several rights that you, as the owner, have exclusively. Those rights include: The right to reproduce the workto prepare derivative worksto distribute copiesto perform the workand to display the work publicly These are your rights and your rights alone. Inversely, if you’re looking for material to use or reuse, you should not do any of these things without either asking permission or confirming that the work is in the public domain, which means that the copyright has expired and all of the above rights have been forfeited.
Because, beyond fair use and parody (issues for later essays), the holder of a copyrighted piece has near carte blanche to do what they want with their work. Moral Rights. Home. Copyright 4 Educators (AUS) | Week 1 & 2 Recommended Readings. Every week we'll suggest readings to help with that week's tasks. We understand that you may be pressed for time - the readings are only there to help and guide you. Read as little or as much as you like/can/need in order to answer the tasks as well as learn the material. The readings should substantially decrease the time that you have to spend on the tasks. We suggest checking out the recommended links to the smartcopying site and the powerpoint presentations first. Smartcopying website This website is a practical resource on copyright for Australian educators. A good starting place would be: Schools - TAFEs - Copyright Act 1968 Australia.
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