RE: Fair use

From: Elizabeth Townsend Gard <elizabeth[_at_]townsend.net>
Date: Mon, 27 Feb 2006 18:30:30 -0500

If the student's presentation is being shown in the classroom (and not placed on the web,) the student can use the materials, as long as it is a legally obtained copy. This is covered by Section 110(1) of the Copyright Act. It is an in-class presentation. The Copyright Act gives special consideration (exemptions) to face-to-face teaching and student projects. This includes displaying copyrighted images.

For more see, See K. Matthew Dames, CommuniK.: Using Copyrighted Works in the Classroom, http://www.copycense.com/2006/01/copyright_clear_1.html, and Laura Gasaway's chart, http://www.unc.edu/~unclng/TEACH.htm. (Note that 110(2) applies to over a digital network. If you are just talking about a presentation in a class, you do not need to worry about that.)

Elizabeth Townsend Gard
London School of Economics
Stanford Law School Center for Internet and Society

-----Original Message-----
From: CNI-COPYRIGHT -- Copyright & Intellectual Property [mailto:CNI-COPYRIGHT[_at_]cni.org] On Behalf Of Bernie Campbell Sent: Monday, February 27, 2006 5:30 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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