Copyright and Fair Use Summary of Multimedia Fair Use Guidelines

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A Teacher's Guide to Fair Use and Copyright

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Art Rights & Wrongs - Great copyright site for kids built by kids

Students may incorporate others' works into their multimedia creations and perform and display
them for academic assignments
Faculty may incorporate others' works into their multimedia creations
* to create multimedia curriculum materials
* to teach remote classes where access and total number of students
is limited; technology makes copying impossible

if materials can be copied, they may only be made available remotely (by network)
for 15 days and then must be placed on reserve for on-site (at the remote location)
use only
Faculty may demonstrate their multimedia creations at professional symposia and retain
same in their own portfolios
Time limit on fair use: 2 years from completion of the multimedia work
Copies limit: generally, only 2, but joint work creators may each have a copy

Portion limits:

* Motion media - up to 10% or 3 minutes, whichever is less
* text - up to 10% or 1000 words, whichever is less
* poem - up to 250 words, but further limited to:
   - three poems or portions of poems by one poet; or
   - five poems or portions of poems by different poets from an anthology
* music - up to 10% or 30 seconds, whichever is less
* photos and images
     - up to 5 works from one author; up to 10% or 15 works, whichever is
       less, from a collection
* database information
      - up to 10% or 2500 fields or cell entries, whichever is less

Harper, Georgia <gharper@utsystem.edu>.
RE: Permission to link and use material
Date: Mon, 9 Apr 2001 08:57:11 -05
<mfinlay@centex.net>