RE: Fair use

From: Angela Mott <angmott[_at_]uflib.ufl.edu>
Date: Mon, 27 Feb 2006 18:30:30 -0500

Bernie,

I am not a lawyer, but having taught at the K-6 level, and now as a library staff member at a university who has to deal with fair use everyday, I would suggest having the student look at the four factors of fair use and have them think about whether their use qualifies as a fair use. (Hmm, great lesson idea by the way.)

I would suggest using the wonderful checklist developed at Indiana University Copyright Management Center located online at: http://extended.unl.edu/pdf/fairusechecklist.pdf. I refer faculty and students to their website all the time. I think it's a great tool to really have them think about the four factors and how their use fits.

I also think having them cite their resources for those images in some sort of bibliography would be entirely appropriate and excellent practice for later research.

Just my two cents,
~Angela

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Angela Mott
Electronic Reserves & Copyright Permissions Coordinator George A. Smathers Libraries at the University of Florida Phone: (352) 273-2523
Fax: (352) 392-4787
Email: angmott[_at_]uflib.ufl.edu

-----Original Message-----
From: CNI-COPYRIGHT -- Copyright & Intellectual Property [mailto:CNI-COPYRIGHT[_at_]cni.org]On Behalf Of Bernie Campbell Sent: Monday, February 27, 2006 12:30 PM To: CNI-COPYRIGHT -- Copyright & Intellectual Property Subject: [CNI-(C)] Fair use

Hello,

                I am an K-6 educator in Southwestern PA. My question is about images on the internet. If a student is doing a PowerPoint presentation about spiders, and includes several pictures from several different web sites. Is this a copyright infringement?

                I know that downloading software, mp3's and video from the web would be a copyright infringement. There are even sites that protect their images from being copied. Obviously, copying an image from one of these sites would be illegal.

                Rather, I am talking about going to Google and searching for spiders, then images. Then coping that picture to an project. Whether it be a digital project or printed in a document.

Any enlightenment on this subject would be greatly appriciated.

Thanks,

Bernie Campbell

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