"You are a teacher at a K-12 public school system preparing a lesson on the rainforest.
You have located images from Google images. They align perfectly with the material you want to address with the class so you decide to download and use them.
To enhance the presentation you find a YouTube video, approximately 7 minutes long, titled “IMAX Tropical Rainforest” and decide to include it as well.
As you begin to develop the presentation you feel that it needs some background music so you purchase an mp3 album of rainforest sounds on iTunes. You plan to play these sounds using your phone speaker while you read a poem.
You plan to read the poem “Rain Forest” by Dave Smith (from The Roundhouse Voices: Selected and New Poems, c1985) and pass out the poem on a bookmark.
You have a few students who will miss the lesson and you want them to be able to access the presentation after the fact. You record the presentation and plan to post it to the school’s intranet (password protected) and also to YouTube so the students could access it easily if they forget the password."
Under copyright law, given that i am a teacher, all these should be allowable due to the fact that I am using them in an educational setting. As a teacher it is fair use that I can copy these things and give them to my students as long as they are for a short period of time.
When putting these resources on Youtube or the schools intranet I would cite your sources and say where they are from. Like wise with the book marks. Make sure to put quotations around the poem and put the name of it and whom it was created by on the same bookmark. Doing this will ensure that you are doing all that you can.
Everything is under the copyright law if done correctly. I have seen many Youtube videos that have had the titles "Made by this person, edited by this person, wrote by this person.." and so on. They are usually accompanied by the phrase, "Copyright not intended, this is not my material." Then a link is given to the original source and the people who create the video take no responsibility creating the material.
To me that is okay. I would want my creations broadcasted to as many people as possible as long as they are not claiming the ideas as their own. As soon as people start to claim things that are not theirs and refusing to cite sources and give credit where credit is due, then that is where it starts to cross a line and become not "okay."
There is a lot of information floating around out there and some people just do not know how to access it. Which, by the way, is okay. No one person can know about everything. That is why i think it is okay that when people see something they should try and share it with as many people as they can. This will ensure that numerous amounts off people learn about as much as they can. Imagine not being able to use things or share things because its not allowed under copyright infringement. Just cite correctly, don't try and take the credit fro everything and always give the original source and creator (making this available is very helpful to everyone!).
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