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Copyright Clarity

How Fair Use Supports Digital Learning

By: Renee Hobbs

Foreword by Donna Alvermann

Finally, a book that dispels the confusion around the use of copyrighted materials in the classroom!

Today, educational resources available online often remain untapped because of confusion over copyright laws. Hobbs dispels common myths and clarifies simple principles for applying copyright law and the doctrine of fair use to 21st-century teaching and learning. Complete with a ready-to-go staff development workshop, this book explores:

What is permissible in the classroom
Fair use of digital materials such as images, movies, and Internet elements found on sites such as Google and YouTube
Trends in intellectual property law and copyright practices
Classroom projects using copyrighted materials

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Grade Level: K-12
ISBN: 9781412981590
Published By: Corwin
Year: 2010
Page Count: 144
Publication date: June 04, 2010

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"This book cuts to the heart of uncertainties about how copyright and fair use apply in the classroom, addressing common misperceptions and laying out the current understandings of intellectual property law in clear engaging prose."
—Henry Jenkins, Provost's Professor of Communication, Journalism, and Cinematic Art
University of Southern California

"This long-awaited book relieves educators' anxieties about the legality of using copyrighted materials during instruction and presentations. In addition to answering questions about fair use practice in an easy-to-understand manner, Hobbs offers examples of how technology supports essential literacy and communication skills in 21st-century classrooms."
—Diane Lapp, Distinguished Professor of Education
San Diego State University

Finally, a book that dispels confusion around the use of copyrighted materials in the classroom!

Today, educators and students have access to a vast, rich array of online materials that can be used for instruction, but these resources often remain untapped because of confusion over copyright laws.

In this slim, jargon-free guide, media literacy expert Renee Hobbs presents simple principles for applying copyright law and the doctrine of fair use to 21st-century teaching and learning. Complete with a ready-to-go staff development workshop, this book explores:

What is permissible in the classroom
Fair use of digital materials such as images, music, movies, and Internet elements found on sites such as Google and YouTube
Trends in intellectual property law and copyright practices
Classroom projects using copyrighted materials

Copyright Clarity helps educators unlock Internet and digital media resources to classrooms while respecting the rights of copyright holders.

For supporting videos, slide presentations, and curriculum materials, see also www.mediaeducationlab.com/copyright.

Key features

Clear, encouraging information for teachers about how to determine what materials, including film clips or music, can be used in the classroom without violating copyright laws
Principles for fair use of online and digital materials that are likely to become the norm in education
Illustrative examples throughout, showing how to apply the principles to the most common classroom scenarios (e.g., film clips in PowerPoint presentations)
An appendix for conducting staff development on copyright and fair use

Author(s)

Renee Hobbs

Renee Hobbs is Professor and Founding Director of the Harrington School of Communication and Media at the University of Rhode Island, and Interim Director of the Graduate Program in Library and Information Studies. Professor Hobbs is one of the nation's leading authorities on media literacy education. Through community and global service and as a leader, researcher, teacher, and advocate, Hobbs has worked to advance the quality of digital and media literacy education in the United States and around the world. She founded the Media Education Lab, whose mission is to improve the quality of media literacy education through research and community service. In the early 1990s, she created the first national teacher education program in media literacy at the Harvard Graduate School of Education.

Renee Hobbs maintains an active research agenda that examines the intersections of the fields of media studies and education. She has published four books and dozens of articles in scholarly journals in three fields: communication, education and health. She is the founding co-editor of the Journal for Media Literacy Education, an open-access peer reviewed journal. In 2012, she served as a Fellow for the American Library Association Office of Information Technology Policy. As a field-builder, she helped found the Partnership for Media Education, which evolved into the National Association for Media Literacy Education (NAMLE), the national membership organization for media literacy. She has sought and received exemptions on behalf of K-12 educators to protect fair use of copy-protected digital media as part of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA), helping advance the benefits of digital learning for all teachers and students.

Renee Hobbs received an Ed.D in Human Development from the Harvard Graduate School of Education, an M.A. in Communication from the University of Michigan, and a B.A. with a double major in English Literature and Film/Video Studies from the University of Michigan.

Table of Contents

Foreword

Preface

Acknowledgments

About the Author

1. Copyright Matters for 21st-Century Learning

2. Dispelling Copyright Confusion

3. Users Have Rights, Too

4. Fair Use and Digital Learning

5. The Future of Copyright

Resource A. Leading a Staff-Development Workshop on Copyright and Fair Use

Resource B. Excerpts From Copyright Law

Endnotes

References

Index

Reviews

“This book cuts right to the heart of uncertainties about how copyright and fair use apply in the classroom—confusions that block many valuable pedagogical interventions. Hobbs offers the information straight, addressing common misperceptions and laying out the current understandings of intellectual property law in clear, engaging prose.”

Henry Jenkins, Provost's Professor of Communication, Journalism, and Cinematic Art
University of Southern California

"This long-awaited book is exactly what has been needed to relieve educators’ anxieties about the legality of using copyrighted materials during instruction and presentations. In addition to answering questions about fair use practice in an easy-to-understand manner, Hobbs offers examples of how Internet and communications technologies support essential literacy and communication skills in 21st-century classrooms. This slender text is a must-read for every educator independently or as a professional development choice."

Diane Lapp, Distinguished Professor of Education
San Diego State University

"This book is provocative, readable, and well written. It will make educators think about their practices and framework. Recommended."

Suzanne Libra
Library Media Connection magazine, November/December 2010

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