Dani Davis

EdTech 646

Reflective Paper #7

July 25, 2004

 

Citations

 

Gibaldi J.  (1999), Palo Alto Middle School Libraries: http://staff.pausd.palo-alto.ca.us/~middlelibrary/bibliographyexamples.html

 

Starr L. (2000), Education World:  Applying Fair Use to New Technologies:

http://www.education-world.com/a_curr/curr280d.shtml

 

Harper G. (2001), Fair Use Guidelines for Educational Multimedia:  http://www.utsystem.edu/ogc/intellectualproperty/ccmcguid.htm#2

 

This copyright presentation will be given to 7th through 12th grade special needs students.  Due to low cognitive abilities, this presentation is being written at the elementary level.  Many of these rules would only be needed for those of my students who are enrolled in the general education class setting, but I addressed all areas, just to be safe.

 

What is Copyrighted work or software?

 

Copyrighted Work is published work or software that someone else has done or created.  Whenever you use copyrighted material you must follow some simple rules.

 

A.        You can use your projects in three ways, without breaking the copyright rules.

 

Rule 1 The project can only be used in the class of the teacher who assigned it.

 

Rule 2 The project may be a collection of your best work.  This collection of your work is known as a portfolio.           

 

Rule 3 You may use your presentation to express your ideas in a job interview

 

B.        There are several rules you must follow when you use work that someone else has done within your project.

 

Rule 1     You must give credit to the original writer.

 

·        Give the author’s name

·        Include the title of the article, magazine, journal or website where the information was found

·        Tell who the publisher is

·        Give the place and date of the publication

Example:       

Book with One Author
     AuthorLastname, AuthorFirstname.  Book Title.  Publication City: Publishing Company,
          Year Published.

     Maculay, David.  The New Way Things Work.  Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1998.

 

Rule 2 On your title slide and any handouts, tell others that you are using copyrighted material, that they cannot copy or use again.

C.        There are also rules for saving your finished projects.

Rule 1 Only 2 copies of your project can be made.

·        You may keep one

·        The school Library may keep one

Rule 2 Online projects made by the teacher, may only be used for 15 days.  After that one copy is taken to the library so that you may use it for the class that you are taking.

Rule 3 Students may not make their own copies of teacher-made projects.

Rule 4 Projects cannot be copied for any purpose other reason, unless you have permission from the author.

D.        There are also rules for how much copyrighted multimedia material that can be used.

            Rule 1 Movies

·        3 minutes or less per movie

·        10% or less per movie

Rule 2 Written Work

·        1,000 words or less per written work

·        10% or less per written work

 

Rule 3 Poetry

·        250 words or less per poem

·        3 poems or less by the same author

·        5 poems or less by different authors

Rule 4 Music or words from songs

·        30 seconds or less per song

·        10% or less per song

Rule 5 Pictures or Illustrations

·        5 pictures or less per illustrator

·        15 pictures or less per book

·        10% or less per book

Rule 6 Numerical Data Table or Database

·        2,500 fields or less per table

·        2,500 cells or less per table