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CHECKLIST FOR CONDUCTING A FAIR USE ANALYSIS 

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CHECKLIST FOR CONDUCTING A FAIR USE ANALYSIS 

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from Cornell University

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University of Texas Libraries

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LibGuides: Copyright Crash Course: Welcome

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LibGuides: Copyright Crash Course: Welcome

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from Northern State Univ. in SD

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Applied Copyright: Find & Use Free Media

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Applied Copyright: Find & Use Free Media

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Applied Copyright: Find & Use Free Media

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Can I Use It? Public Domain & Open Access Media Sites

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Only a court of law can definitively rule on whether a use is fair or unfair. This tool does not assume or predict a court outcome.

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Copyright tools can help libraries and others to be more comfortable with their work to interpret the limitations and exceptions to the exclusive rights granted to the copyright holder under U.S. Copyright law. By exercising these valuable exceptions, we strengthen copyright's primary purpose "to promote the progress of science and useful arts."

Over the past several years, ALA has developed tools to educate libraries, librarians, and others about copyright. These tools - the Public Domain Slider, the Section 108 Spinner, the Fair Use Evaluator, and the Exceptions for Instructors eTool - are all available online for anyone to use.

The Public Domain Slider is a tool to help determine the copyright status of a work that is first published in the U.S. Most of us know that any work published before 1923 is in the public domain, but the copyright status for copyrighted works after 1923 can be difficult to determine. There are many works in the public domain that have been published after 1923 because registration was not renewed and/or the copyright symbol - © - does not appear on the work. If a work is in the public domain, you are free to use that work in any way that you choose - digitize it, re-publish it, post it on the web etc. with appropriate attribution. For those works that are still protected by copyright, don't forget to consider fair use to determine if the work can be used in other more limited ways.

This simple tool can help you determine whether or not a particular reproduction is covered by this exemption. Section 108 of the U.S. Copyright Code allows libraries & archives, under certain circumstances, to make reproductions of copyrighted materials without the permission of the copyright holder.

Exceptions for Instructors eTool

If you have feedback or ideas for future development or upgrades to the tools, please contact Carrie Russell: crussell@alawash.org

The Exceptions for Instructors eTool guides users through the educational exceptions in U.S. copyright law, helping to explain and clarify rights and responsibilities for the performance and display of copyrighted content in traditional, distance and blended educational models.

Tool Modification

If you have feedback or ideas for future development or upgrades to the tools, please contact Carrie Russell: crussell@alawash.org

The Creative Commons Attribution Noncommercial Share Alike license allows you to modify and use these tool under specific circumstances: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0

The Digital Slider Public Domain tool and the Section 108 Spinner each use Adobe Flash. It is recommended that institutions only modify the contact information and copyright resources links notes (details on how to make these changes/additions are given in a readme.txt file provided with the tools).

The Exceptions for Instructors eTool and the Fair Use Evaluator use HTML, CSS, and PHP. They are fully configurable, though only specific areas of the tools should be modified, in order to ensure they remain faithful to the law.

All of the tools need only to be mounted on a server; they require no other specialized hardware, software,or maintenance.

In order to keep track of how much these tools are used, we would appreciate it if you maintained our Google Analytics tag in the headers. This helps us know how many users we are reaching and how they are finding our tools.

Please do not remove any of the disclaimer information or information that qualifies any of the uses or text provided in the tools.

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Copyright tools can help libraries and others to be more comfortable with their work to interpret the limitations and exceptions to the exclusive rights granted to the copyright holder under U.S. Copyright law. By exercising these valuable exceptions, we strengthen copyright's primary purpose "to promote the progress of science and useful arts."

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Digital Citizenship: New Roles and Responsibilities in the Digital Age

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Welcome to the WebJunction Course Catalog, where library-specific courses and webinar recordings are available for free to all library workers and volunteers. Through the generous support of OCLC and many state library agencies across the US, WebJunction provides timely and relevant learning content for you to access anytime, from anywhere.

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Teaching Copyright and Fair Use to the Remix Generation

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Teaching Copyright and Fair Use to the Remix Generation

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VIEW THE WEBINAR
Are your students copyright confused? Do you often hear them asking, "Can I use that?" or pleading ignorance to plagiarism? Consuming and creating media is an important part of students' lives. The Common Core State Standards recognize that "To be ready for college, workforce training and life in a technological society, students need the ability to gather, comprehend, evaluate, synthesize, report on and create a high volume and extensive range of print and non-print texts in media forms old and new." In order for our students to become effective, ethical consumers and creators of media, they also need a strong understanding of the concepts of copyright and fair use and how to apply these concepts within and beyond the school day. As schools integrate more technology, navigating the line between what's legal and what's not can be confusing. In this month's webinar for the edWeb.net Digital Citizenship community, presenter Gail Desler, Technology Integration Specialist at Elk Grove Unified School District and Co-creater of Digital ID, helped to reduce copyright confusion, examined fair use as a reasoning process, and explored the possibilities of remix in teaching. Gail introduced curriculum resources from Digital ID and Common Sense Media to teach students essential skills around rights and responsibilities for the remix generation.

Join the community and take a quiz to receive a CE Certificate for viewing this webinar.

Digital Citizenship is a professional learning community (PLC) that provides ideas and discussions about how to help kids be safe, responsible, and respectful participants in a digital world. This community will help you stay connected, share ideas, and get support from colleagues on issues such as: cyberbullying, privacy, digital footprints, copyright and plagiarism, information literacy, and Internet safety.

Join Digital Citizenship on edWeb.net

Follow us on Twitter @edWebnet to learn about upcoming webinars and special events!

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Teaching Copyright and Fair Use to the Remix Generation - edWeb

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VIEW THE WEBINAR Are your students copyright confused? Do you often hear them asking, "Can I use that?" or pleading ignorance to plagiarism? Consuming and creating media is an important part of students' lives.

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How to Find Free (and Legal to Use) Images and Media Online

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Welcome to the WebJunction Course Catalog, where library-specific courses and webinar recordings are available for free to all library workers and volunteers. Through the generous support of OCLC and many state library agencies across the US, WebJunction provides timely and relevant learning content for you to access anytime, from anywhere.