Storyboard - Copyright in the Classroom

1 Copyright for Student Use:  How to comply with the law.	2 Copyright in its basic definition is the protection of another persons creative work in writing, music, photography, art, or another form of an idea being recorded.	3 Copyright is confusing for learners to grasp.	4 Plagiarism is a copyright infringement where a student takes someone else's ideas, and claims them for his or her own.
5 Music is downloaded using file sharing services all the time.  Many artists such as Metallica, want their music protected.  They took Napster to court.  When the dust settled, Napster had to stops sharing their music.	6 Film is abused as well.  In many places, a showing of a movie on DVD can be interpreted as showing the film without the copyright holders permission.  In one school system, the faculty was banned from showing any portion of a Disney movie in their lessons.	7 What is a learner to do?  Being enrolled in a government, academic, or religious institution, these organizations have permission to use parts of the total work without permission from the copyright holder.	8 Fairuse is the policy that allows these institutions to use the material.  I like to call this the 10% rule.  In music, 10% can be used by these institutions without permission.  As an example, a 3 minute song can have up to 1.8 minutes of playtime.  This is the reason why music apps can play a small snippet of the song.
9 In literature, 10% can be used for less than 1000 words of text.  Any use over that amount, permission from the copyright holder must be granted.	10 As an example, my wife was presenting her materials at a literature conference.  While planning her presentation, one of the book's author refused to let her use a form published in the book she used in teaching.  She said it was a central part of her presentation.  She found a similar sheet whose author granted permission for her to use in the presentation.	11 When the Disney movie Mulan came out, marching band arrangements for the music were not completed.  I called Disney to see what I had to do.  The music librarian at the Orlando Disney complex told me that "Disney realizes that people use our materials all the time without permission."  I replied that I wanted to follow the law both ethically and as a  teaching tool for my students.  He gave me the phone number for Disney's copyright lawyers in California.  Within fifteen minutes, I had contracts with permission to arrange four songs for $50 each.	12 In writing, some of our more famous plagiarists are Vice President Joe Biden, and journalist Maureen Dowd. Both used someone else's creative work without permission.
13 In one of the Batman movies, a famous sculpture comes to life.  The artist to created the sculpture took the movie production company to court, as animating the sculpture without the artists permission altered the initial work.	14 With the web being more interactive, many authors and creative people are allowing people to use their materials through "Creative Commons" licensing.  The symbol lets others know how they can use the materials on a webpage for their own work.	15 Each symbol represents a different level of permission for their web content.  Clarification is given upfront for materials.	16 Obtaining permission from copyright holders has become very easy with the use of email.  Many responses come back within one hour.
17 Guidelines that help- If someone else creates it, you are buying their book, dvd, cd, or music track to read, watch or listen to.  You have bought the delivery method being used. If you create the work as a book, dcd, cd or music track, you control who gets to read, watch, or listen to your work. You control who the creative work works for you	18 Copyright is confusing for many people.  The easiest way to remember how to follow the law is this: If you create the creative work, you control it. If someone else creates the creative work, they control it