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    Copyright is the exclusive legal right given to creators to control their original works. It protects tangible works like writing, recordings, and videos, but not mere ideas. As educators, understanding copyright is important because teachers both use and create copyrighted materials. Fair use allows unlicensed use of copyrighted works for purposes like education by considering how much is used, its nature, purpose, and commercial effect. The public domain refers to works not protected by copyright that can be freely used without permission.

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    Copyright is the exclusive legal right given to creators to control their original works. It protects tangible works like writing, recordings, and videos, but not mere ideas. As educators, understanding copyright is important because teachers both use and create copyrighted materials. Fair use allows unlicensed use of copyrighted works for purposes like education by considering how much is used, its nature, purpose, and commercial effect. The public domain refers to works not protected by copyright that can be freely used without permission.

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    Copyright is the exclusive legal right given to creators to control their original works. It protects tangible works like writing, recordings, and videos, but not mere ideas. As educators, understanding copyright is important because teachers both use and create copyrighted materials. Fair use allows unlicensed use of copyrighted works for purposes like education by considering how much is used, its nature, purpose, and commercial effect. The public domain refers to works not protected by copyright that can be freely used without permission.

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    What is copyright? Why is it important to me?

    What is copyright? It is the exclusive legal right, given to an originator or assignee, to print, publish,
    perform, film, or record literary, artistic, or musical material, and to authorize others to do the same.
    This does not protect ideas that have not been made into something yet. There must be a tangible
    medium such as writing, recording, sculpting, video, etc. for a work to be protected by copyright.

    Why is this important to me? As educators, we often deal with and teach about copyrighted materials.
    We also create lots of material for our classrooms as well as facilitate projects with our students where
    they are creating new works!

    What is fair use? According to the U.S. Copyright Office, fair use is a legal doctrine that promotes
    freedom of expression by permitting the unlicensed use of copyright-protected works in certain
    circumstances such as education. We can use a formula to help decide if something is fair use to use in
    our classroom, a project, a study guide, and more.

    Fair is Square. There are four important components to fair use: amount, nature, purpose, and effect.
    We can think of those four components like four sides of a square. If even one of these sides are messed
    up then we no longer have a fair square.

    Amount: How much of the work is used? Is it only a small amount? Does it use the “heart” of the work
    that makes it special? The less of the work used the better for fair use.
    Nature: Is the original work fiction, non-fiction, news, or something creative? Things that are non-fiction
    or deal with facts have a higher chance to qualify for fair use.
    Purpose: Is the work being used in an educational setting? Is it being critiqued? Has it been transformed
    into something new?
    Effect: Does the new work have a negative effect on the original creator, especially around $$$?

    What is the public domain? According to the U.S. Copyright Office, the phrase "public domain" (PD) isn't
    in the U.S. Copyright Act. It is, however, commonly used to refer to content that isn't protected by
    copyright law. Works that are in the public domain may be used freely, without obtaining permission
    from or compensating the copyright owner.

    Helpful resources:

    • https://www.copyright.gov/what-is-copyright/
    • https://www.youtube.com/@USCopyrightOffice
    • https://www.edutopia.org/article/teachers-guide-copyright-and-fair-use/
    • https://www.commonsensemedia.org/

    By Penny Mullin

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