Copyright Information

Participants in my clases are always asking me for copyright information. Since most of my classes deal with writing web pages, we use a lot of graphics, employ design strategies, and enter oodles of text. What are the copyright laws? How do they affect the clasroom teacher? Can I download music from the Internet? Can I use graphics from the web?

Here are some links to copyright sites that, hopefully, will help answer your questions.

A Teacher's Guide to Fair Use and Copyright
More information on copyright laws and teachers
A Visit to Copyright Bay This site is only to inform and entertain educators about copyright issues in a non-profit setting.
Articles for Website Designers, Etc. Lots of valuable information here!
Code of Academic Integrity Read what Cornell University expects from its students regarding work submitted for extra credit. It details what is premitted and what the penalties are for code violatons.
Copyright Management Center From Purdue University. Excellent!
Copyright & Schools This site is from the Missouri Department of Elementary and Secondary education and is the result of a project to assist K-12 districts with the copyright questions. Great Acrobat documents here.
Copyright and Fair Use in the Classroom From the University of Maryland University College
Copyright Issues for Educators: 10 Things Everyone Should Know Copyright Isues for Educators: 10 Things Everyone Should Know
Copyright on the Internet Some copyright basics for web writers.
Copyright/Copyleft Educational CyberPlayGround has some very good links and interesting information on their site.
Digital Millenium Copyright Act of 1998 Everyone needs to read this as it made some very important changes.
Guide to Copyright ... Guidelines for Classroom Copying Agreement on Guidelines for Classroom Copying in Not-For-Profit Educational Institutions with Respect to Books and Periodicals
Internet Law Nolo's Legal Encyclopedia
Landmarks Citation Machine Citation Machine is an interactive Web tool designed to assist teachers and students in producing reference citations for crediting information from other people. And, it's free!
Legal Information on the Web Lots and lots of links!
Online Copyright Resources More links. Well done site!
The Copyright Website Copyright information for all.
The Eleventh Commandment Simply said!
What Every Webmaster Needs to Know About Copyright Law Excellent information and links.
What is Plagiarism? From Georgetown University. A good read for teachers and students alike.
Whose Words - Who Owns Student Posts in an Online Course? Who owns the words that students enter into an online course discussion forum?

 

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