Copyright

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//"When most people think of the word, “copyright,” they think about the rights of owners to control access to their intellectual property. This is accurate, but it is not the whole story. As the U.S. Constitution says, the purpose of copyright is to promote the spread of knowledge and innovation. The intellectual property rights provision of the Constitution was included because the Founders believed -- correctly -- that encouraging the development of new ideas and information serves society as a whole.// //The Internet and other digital technologies have made it easier than ever to share, use, copy, excerpt, quote from, modify, repurpose and distribute language, still and moving images, and sounds that are the property – the “intellectual property” -- of others. These same innovations have made intellectual property owners keenly aware of the economic value of media content. To protect that value, owners have lobbied for changes in copyright law in their favor and forcefully asserted their rights to restrict, limit, and/or charge high fees for the use of their works. Some even use scare tactics that critics claim may not be entirely legal themselves, misrepresenting users' rights under the law."// [|Media Education Lab]

Article I, section 8, clause 8 of the United States Constitution provides that Congress shall have the power: "to promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries."

**3 requirements:**

 * Fixed medium
 * Original
 * At least a minimum degree of creativity

YouTube Copyright Basics
From YouTube- Copyright Basics

Copyright Music Video
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What is Fair Use?
According to the U.S. Copyright Office " Section 107 contains a list of the various purposes for which the reproduction of a particular work may be considered fair, such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, and research. Section 107 also sets out four factors to be considered in determining whether or not a particular use is fair:

1. The purpose and character of the use, including whether such use is of commercial nature or is for nonprofit educational purposes 2. The nature of the copyrighted work 3. The amount and substantiality of the portion used in relation to the copyrighted work as a whole 4. The effect of the use upon the potential market for, or value of, the copyrighted work "

[|Read Fair Use FAQs]pdf from []

Factors to Consider: Is it Fair Use?
T[|he Code of Best Practices in Fair Use for Media Literacy Education] asserts educators' and learners' rights to use copyrighted materials for teaching and learning. The Code maintains that: Educators can, under some circumstances: 1. Make copies of newspaper articles, TV shows, and other copyrighted works, and use them and keep them for educational use. 2. Create curriculum materials and scholarship with copyrighted materials embedded. 3. Share, sell, and distribute curriculum materials with copyrighted materials embedded. Learners can, under some circumstances: 4. Use copyrighted works in creating new material. 5. Distribute their works digitally if they meet the transformativeness standard

Code of Best Practices for Online Video
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Is this "transformative"?

Fair Use- Disney example
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Fair Use Visualizer
Not sure if your use is "fair use"?[| Try out this visualizer] to help you decide. You may find this slider helpful to decide, "Is it fair use?" Is it in the public domain ? This will help you decide.

End of Copyright Confusion
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**Text**

 * Up to 10% of a copyrighted work or 1000 words, whichever is less
 * Poems
 * Entire poem if less than 250 words
 * 250 words or less if longer poem
 * No more than 5 poems (or excerpts) of different poets, from an anthology
 * Only 3 poems (or excerpts) per poet

**Video**

 * Up to 10% of a copyrighted work or 3 minutes, whichever is less
 * Clip cannot be altered in any way

**Images**

 * A photograph or illustration may be used in its entirety
 * No more than 5 images of an artist's or photographer's work
 * When using a collection, no more than 10% or no more than 15 images, whichever is less
 * Photos cannot be rebroadcasted on the Internet (Ex: Podcasting)

**Music**

 * Up to 10% of a copyrighted musical composition, but no more than 30 seconds
 * Up to 10% of a body of sound recording, but no more than 30 seconds
 * Any alterations cannot change the basic melody or the fundamental character of the work

Test Cases
[|George Harrison vs The Chiffons] link to[| He's So Fine] [|2LiveCrew vs Pretty Woman] [|Shephard Fairey and the Obama Hope Poster- settlement]

Everything is a Remix
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The Copyright Game
[|Do you know your copyright facts?]