Ever wanted to use a super teaching resource you found on the web .. yet been afraid the copyright police might come a-knockin’ at your door? Fear no more! The Media Education Lab at Temple University has good news for you! Read on.
From the Media Education Lab:
Copyright and fair use issues are definitely things that concern teachers. Many factors have contributed to the culture of fear and uncertainty — but now there are resources available that enable educators to feel more confident in their use of copyrighted materials — including websites, images, movies, news media, advertising, online resources and popular culture — to build students’ critical thinking and communication skills.
Renee Hobbs, professor at Temple’s Media Education Lab, Peter Jaszi, a professor of Law at American University’s Washington College of Law who specializes in copyright law used a “best practices” model to help the educational community articulate how fair use applies to their work. The project was started by Professor Pat Aufderheide at the Center for Social Media at American University in Washington, D.C. who worked with documentary filmmakers to create the Documentary Filmmakers’ Statement of Best Practices in Fair Use.
With support from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, they spent two years working with more than 200 educators from across the country to create a statement to assist media educators in making better use of their fair use rights under copyright law.
Want to know more? Their November 11, 2008 presentation at the National Constitution Center can now be viewed on the Archive page of the Copyright Confusion Wiki! Also check out the accompanying Best Practices in Fair Use. The entire wiki is just a super resource.
