Copyright and Fair Use: Copyright for Educators

The Code of Best Practices helps educators using media literacy concepts and techniques to interpret the copyright doctrine of fair use. This code of best practices does not tell you the limits of fair use rights. Instead, it describes how those rights should apply in certain recurrent situations. Links to the article and video, with full report available as PDF.

This site houses resources and materials to support Renee Hobbs' book, Copyright Clarity: How Fair Use Supports Digital Learning.

This tool helps explain and clarify rights and responsibilities for the performance and display of copyrighted content in traditional, distance and blended educational models. This tool covers Section 110(1), the “face to face teaching” exception and Section 110(2), the TEACH Act (Technology, Education and Copyright Harmonization Act).

Teaching Copyright is a site dedicated to supporting educators in helping teach students their rights and responsibilities when using technology. Lessons include assessment of prior knowledge, copyright history, fair use, and using technology to remix and share digital content. Extensive resources are available as well.

This site from the W. Frank Steely Library features lesson plans, films, and activities on plagiarism and copyright awareness for the classroom, tied to national and state standards.