Copyright+&+Fair+Use

toc " //The fundamental goals of media literacy education—to cultivate critical thinking about media and its role in culture and society and to strengthen creative communication skills—are compromised by unnecessary copyright restrictions and lack of understanding about copyright law."// ~ Renee Hobbs

As educators, we need to model respect for copyright laws, but we also need the freedom to provide our students with the most engaging, relevant information and resources available. This freedom, aka fair use, is still a bit of a fuzzy area, but thanks to the efforts of organizations such as the [|Center for][|Social Media], we now have a set of user-friendly guidelines to help us navigate the gray areas of fair use in our classroom practice. =Resources:= media type="custom" key="4589374"
 * [|Code of Best Practices in Fair Use for Media Literacy Education]- Includes the video below, a great resource for workshops
 * Unlocking Copyright Confusion- Temple University's Renee Hobbs has created this wiki, along with a slideshow, [|Finally the End to Copyright Confusion Has Arrived,] and other teaching resources such as the [|Media Education Lab]''s curriculum, with a [|section for elementary, middle and high school.] Each unit comes with age-level appropriate videos to make th following five areas accessible:
 * 1) Section 1. Understanding Copyright
 * 2) Section 2. The Cost of Copyright Confusion
 * 3) Section 3. Defining and Applying Fair Use
 * 4) Section 4. The Five Principles
 * 5) Section 5. Advocacy
 * For great examples of the Center for Social Media's "transformativeness standard," [|checkout the videoclips.]


 * Joyce Valenza's Classroom Resources for Copyright & Fair Use
 * [|Teaching Copyright] - From the [|Electronic Frontier Foundation], this site offers lessons that "foster basic skills in research, writing, and critical thinking" to help students understand their basic rights and responsibilities.
 * [|Ewa McGrail's Copyright Activity for Teachers] - I like Ewa's structure of hands-on exploration and her links to [|Creative Commons] resources
 * [|Cyberbee's Copyright Lessons and Resources] - Excellent site for elementary students
 * [|Copyright for Kids]
 * [|A Visit to Copyright Bay] - Designed for educators
 * [|Hall Davidson's Coypright & Fair Use Chart] - If you've been using the allowable amounts guidelines on Hall's chart, it's time to leave it behind and join the conversation at the Unlocking Copyright Confusion conversation.

=Creative Commons Resources:=
 * Creative Common's [|Wanna Work Together Video]
 * [|Creative Commons - What Every Educator Needs to Know] - Comprehensive narrated slideshow of origins and implications of cc by [|Rodd Lucier]

=More Video Resources:=
 * [|Copyright What's Copyright?]
 * [|User's Rights, Section 107]
 * From Stanford's Center for Internet and Society: [|A Fair(y) Tale] - If you started your workshop with the Code of Best Practices video, you might want to end with this one;-)

=Music Resources:= =Image Resources= = =
 * [|Moby Gratis]- If you're a Moby fan, you'll appreciate having permission to use some of his discarded tunes.
 * [|Jamendo]- A vast collection of truly royalty free music.
 * [|Kevin McCloud -] I found this resource via [|Mathew Needleman's blog.] In Mathew's words: "This guy has great movie music that’s easily searchable by mood and style. I don’t know how he makes a living cuz he’s giving good stuff away for free."


 * [|Flickr] - Check for Creative Commons licensing!
 * [|MorgueFile] - Large file sizes are great from importing into movie editing programs
 * Pics4Learning - Huge selection
 * FreePhoto - more freebies
 * Smithsonian Images
 * Library of Congressvia Flickr

=Workshop Resources:=
 * [|Copyright & Fair Use Resources Handout.pdf]
 * [|Putting an End to Copyright Confusion-SEVA09.pptx]