Copyright and Fair Use
What is Copyright?
Copyright is designed to protect the rights of both owners and users in order to promote creativity and innovation.
—Renee Hobbs, Ed.D., professor, School of Communications and Theater,
Temple University
More information on Copyrights.
What is Fair Use?
- Fair use in copyright practices promotes both the rights of the creator of a work and rights of the user to access the work.
- Fair use allows you to freely use copyrighted work for criticism, research, imitation, reporting, comparison, and learning. It also requires that you are able to defend your use of the work.
More information on Fair Use.
Resources
Download the Code of Best Practices
http://mediaeducationlab.com/code-best-practices-fair-use-media-literacy-education-0
Share the videos
http://copyrightconfusion.wikispaces.com/Videos
Copyright resources from Temple Media Education Lab
http://mediaeducationlab.com/copyright
Fair use resources from Center for Social Media
http://www.centerforsocialmedia.org/fair-use
Fair use videos
http://www.centerforsocialmedia.org/fair-use/videos
Join the Copyright Confusion wikispaces community to continue the conversation
http://copyrightconfusion.wikispaces.com/
The Copyright Act of 1976. This stands as the most comprehensive law on copyright protection and fair use. The fair use defense to copyright infringement was coded for the first time in Section 107 of the Copyright Act [http://www.copyright.gov/title17/], Chapter 1: Subject Matter and Scope of Copyright, p. 19.
Renee Hobbs, Temple University Media Education Lab
http://mediaeducationlab.com/about/renee-hobbs
Email: renee.hobbs@temple.edu
Twitter: reneehobbs
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