A Fair(y) Use Tale

Even Weird Al Gets Permission – American University Intellectual Property Brief If you’re on the Intellectual Property Brief website, odds are that you know what fair use is. The doctrine of fair use is one of the most important features of United States copyright law, and the need for its preservation cannot be overstated. The American University Center for Social Media has some excellent definitions of fair use: “Fair use is the right, in some circumstances, to quote copyrighted material without asking permission or paying for it. It is a crucial feature of copyright law. In fact, it is what keeps copyright from being censorship. “Fair use is flexible; it is not uncertain or unreliable. Fair use is a privileged use of another’s copyrighted work; it is a complete defense, and means that the use was not an infringement. (1) the purpose and character of the use, including whether such use is of a commercial nature or is for nonprofit educational purposes; (2) the nature of the copyrighted work; The confusion was cleared up the next day with the post Gaga Update!

Can I Use that Picture? The Terms, Laws, and Ethics for Using Copyrighted Images – The Visual Communication Guy: Design, Writing, and Teaching Resources All in One Place! Need to use an image but not sure if you have the legal and ethical right to do so? Understanding the laws for using images can be a bit tricky, especially because there is wiggle room within the laws. And, with the mass distribution of images on the internet, it’s no wonder we’re all asking the the same question over and over again: can I use that picture? Whether for your business presentation, your school project, or your organization’s brochure, you’ve likely placed in images to make your designs more visually appealing. But did you use the images according to legal and ethical standards? I created the guide below to help sift through the complexity of it all. My rule above all else? For a similar graphic on plagiarism violations, see the Did I Plagiarize? For more information about taking good images yourself, see the Six Tips for Taking A Good Picture blog post. To purchase a 20×30 poster, please visit the online store.

I’ve Got Research. Yes, I Do. I’ve Got Research. How About You? | Donalyn Miller In 1847, Hungarian doctor, Ignaz Semmelweis made a remarkable discovery. When doctors washed their hands in a solution of chlorine and water, childbirth fever rates at Vienna General Hospital dropped from 18% to near zero. Offended that Semmelweis implied doctors were killing their own patients, the medical community rejected hand washing as an infection prevention measure, and drove Semmelweis out of medicine and into an insane asylum. A few years later, Louis Pasteur and Joseph Lister made scientific advances that reinforced Semmelwies’s claims about germ theory and infection. Hand washing between patient examinations is considered best practice today. In spite of all scientific evidence, we still live in a world where hand washing isn’t universal practice. In 1977, the Journal of Reading (now The Journal of Adolescent and Adult Literacy) published Richard Allington’s landmark paper, “If They Don’t Read Much, How They Ever Gonna Get Good?” The Power of Reading by Stephen Krashen

Cut : film as found object in contemporary video : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming Skip to main content We will keep fighting for all libraries - stand with us! More Information on Fair Use | U.S. Copyright Office Fair use is a legal doctrine that promotes freedom of expression by permitting the unlicensed use of copyright-protected works in certain circumstances. Section 107 of the Copyright Act provides the statutory framework for determining whether something is a fair use and identifies certain types of uses—such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, and research—as examples of activities that may qualify as fair use. Section 107 calls for consideration of the following four factors in evaluating a question of fair use: Purpose and character of the use, including whether the use is of a commercial nature or is for nonprofit educational purposes: Courts look at how the party claiming fair use is using the copyrighted work, and are more likely to find that nonprofit educational and noncommercial uses are fair. In addition to the above, other factors may also be considered by a court in weighing a fair use question, depending upon the circumstances.

Created for Learning: When can I use someone else's images in my resources? We were lucky enough that a connection of ours landed us a free chat with a big trademark/copyright attorney in Southern California. We talked about these things with him. We learned that you can use images from films as long as... you create your own derivative work...and/or...you only use as much as you reasonably need to use...and/or...you do not use critical/spoiler portions of the creative work...and/or...you don't compete with their intended market...and/or...you use it in instructive and not decorative ways.ACCEPTABLE USE: Example: Someone could create a Powerpoint that includes short video clips from films for the class to discuss the use of lighting or sound editing or character motives or etc.Example: Someone could use multiple small quotes from the text.Example: Someone could start with someone else's artwork and transform it drastically enough that it is no longer that work or in competition with that work. LISTEN: to lawyer Jonathan Pink talk copyright

A Closer Look at Reading Incentive Programs Excerpts from Punished by Rewards (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1993/1999/2018) By Alfie Kohn All those reading incentive campaigns inflicted on elementary school children across the country provide sobering evidence of just how many parents and educators are trapped by Skinnerian thinking. They also illustrate the consequences of extrinsic motivators more generally. Asked about the likely results of “Book It!” Consider the following excerpt from a recent article in USA Today: When school let out for the summer, a Philadelphia mother was concerned her 9-year-old son would take a three-month vacation from reading. The article goes on to note that this summer program is similar to others around the country that offer movie parties, zoo passes, and other prizes to children who pick up enough books. “But at least he’s reading now,” Ms. The rate of book reading increased astronomically . . . Notice what is going on here. …. No wonder offering kids rewards for reading books reliably backfires.

Matthias Müller : Home Stories - FoxyLounge Avec "Home Stories", Matthias Müller nous propose un collage d’extraits tirés du cinéma hollywoodien des années 1950 et 1960. Un travail rythmé sur la mémoire collective, les clichés et notre rapport avec ce média de masse qu’est le cinéma. Video Player – Voir en ligne "A collage of Hollywood melodramas of the 1950s and 1960s, filmed directly from the television set.

Recut, Reframe, Recycle - Center for Media and Social Impact When college kids make mashups of Hollywood movies, are they violating the law? Not necessarily, according to the latest study (PDF) on copyright and creativity from the Center and American University’s Washington College of Law. The study, Recut, Reframe, Recycle: Quoting Copyrighted Material in User-Generated Video, by Center director Pat Aufderheide and Peter Jaszi, co-director of the law school’s Program on Information Justice and Intellectual Property, shows that many uses of copyrighted material in today’s online videos are eligible for fair use consideration. The study points to a wide variety of practices—satire, parody, negative and positive commentary, discussion-triggers, illustration, diaries, archiving and of course, pastiche or collage (remixes and mashups)—all of which could be legal in some circumstances. Fair use is the part of copyright law that permits new makers, in some situations, to quote copyrighted material without asking permission or paying the owners.

Copyright: Will We Always Be Behind the Times? | Tech Tidbits I dusted off my copyright presentation the other day, getting ready to talk to a journalism class full of juniors. The task the teacher and I were hoping to accomplish was to help the students better understand copyright and the use of digital images in their online blog magazine publications. As I prepared, just for fun, I pulled the books on copyright that I have as resources for staff in our professional collection. This jarred me into thinking, once again, how rapidly digital creation tools evolve and how, just as rapidly, we need to revisit how we think about copyright. I know our students need the tools and knowledge to critically question and consider how works they create or use dramatically impact others. With the help of Common Sense Media and Hobbs’s Copyright Clarity Media Education Lab resources, I was off and running for my lesson. “Is everything copyrighted?” We discussed Fair use (which most of you probably have memorized). See also: