Copyright

Copy Rights and Wrongs
This is a serious and confusing issue for educators especially with new digital media. The following are recommendations accepted by publishers, educators, and the legal field. As yet they are not legally binding. Following the guidelines should keep you and your students safe from charges of copyright infringement when working with multimedia.

Fair use guidelines allow educators to use copyrighted works to create educational multimedia projects for

 * face-to-face student instruction
 * directed student self-study
 * real-time remote instruction, review, or directed self-study
 * presentation at peer workshops and conferences
 * such personal uses as tenure review or job interviews

Fair use guidelines allow students to use copyrighted works to create educational multimedia projects for

 * fulfilling course requirements
 * inclusion in portfolios as examples of academic work
 * such personal uses as job and graduate school interviews.

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