Fair Use Laws
Copyright and Fair Use Laws
Effects of Copyright and Fair Use on Educators
Melissa Osuna
National University
“The power of technology is a two-edged sword…” (Roblyer & Doering, 2010, p.20), with an infinite amount of easy-access resources available online, copyright and fair use laws or more important that ever. The availability of online periodicals, full-texts and others resources is increasing drastically, and its imperative to make sure teachers and students understand and are in compliance with copyright and fair use laws. (Roblyer & Doering, 2010, p. 20).
Copyright is a “legal device that provides the creator of a work of art or literature, or a work that covers information or ideas, the right to control how the work is used” (Fishman, 2008, p.6). Copyright laws provide authors the property right attached to their original work, it grants them exclusive right to reproduce, distribute, adapt, perform or …show more content…
There are a few factors that the Copyright law provides for purpose of fair use, these exemptions are purpose of use, nature of work, proportion/extent of material used, and the effect on marketability. (U.S. Copyright Office, 2008, p.4). If you were to just make copies of copyrighted work for educational purposes or altered specifically for you audience it is considered fair use, its important to remember that unpublished works are usually not considered fair use, published works are always safer to use to ensure you are following the fair use policy. The more of the text you use the more likely it will be considered fair use, also the more the work different from the original the more it falls into the fair use category. Educators must always evaluate how Fair Use laws affect them in their
Effects of Copyright and Fair Use on Educators
Melissa Osuna
National University
“The power of technology is a two-edged sword…” (Roblyer & Doering, 2010, p.20), with an infinite amount of easy-access resources available online, copyright and fair use laws or more important that ever. The availability of online periodicals, full-texts and others resources is increasing drastically, and its imperative to make sure teachers and students understand and are in compliance with copyright and fair use laws. (Roblyer & Doering, 2010, p. 20).
Copyright is a “legal device that provides the creator of a work of art or literature, or a work that covers information or ideas, the right to control how the work is used” (Fishman, 2008, p.6). Copyright laws provide authors the property right attached to their original work, it grants them exclusive right to reproduce, distribute, adapt, perform or …show more content…
There are a few factors that the Copyright law provides for purpose of fair use, these exemptions are purpose of use, nature of work, proportion/extent of material used, and the effect on marketability. (U.S. Copyright Office, 2008, p.4). If you were to just make copies of copyrighted work for educational purposes or altered specifically for you audience it is considered fair use, its important to remember that unpublished works are usually not considered fair use, published works are always safer to use to ensure you are following the fair use policy. The more of the text you use the more likely it will be considered fair use, also the more the work different from the original the more it falls into the fair use category. Educators must always evaluate how Fair Use laws affect them in their