Copyright & Fair Use for Educators

Which of the following protects the original work a person has created and requires others to obtain permission if they want to use it?

• Copyright
• Password
• Fair use
• Plagiarism

What is the only condition that a work must meet in order to be protected by copyright?

• It must have the copyright symbol
• It must be an original expression.
• Printed and filed with an agency.
• It must be presented by a law office

Other people's copyrighted materials can be used if you:

• are able to copy and paste it from the Internet.

• obtain a copy from your school library.

• pay a fee, obtain permission, or follow Fair Use guidelines.

• download the content from the Internet for free.

Students and teachers can use copyrighted materials for educational purposes with no limits or restrictions. 

• True
• False

All of these works below can be copied without worrying about copyright law...except one. Which one of these is not okay to copy and use?

• Works created by the federal government

• Works that the creator gave away by putting them in the public domain

• Works that are found using a Google image search

• Works that are so old that the copyright protection has expired.

If in doubt of fairly using any material, you should contact the copyright owner.

• True
• False

The ability to use a small amount of copyrighted work without permission, but only in certain ways and in specific situations (schoolwork and education, news reporting, criticizing, or commenting on something, and comedy/parody).

• creative commons
• fair use
• license
• creative work

Fair Use can be applied to work that is used for _________.

• education, criticism, parody

• public display, campaigns, commercial use.

There are 4 questions you must ask yourself to determine if your use of someone else's creation is covered by Fair Use. Which is not one of those four questions?

• How much of the work are you using?
• What is your purpose of copying it? Are you using it for school, parody, or the news?
• If you copy it, will it hurt the sales of the original work?
• Will you get caught if you copy it?

Which of the following is considered fair use of copyrighted material?

• Using 100% of the lyrics of a copyrighted song in a video

• Commenting about a music video on a social networking site.

• Reworking small parts of an original song to use for a face-to-face classroom lesson.

• Downloading a song from the Internet and making copies for your family.