Introduction
Over the past 8 weeks, I have learned how deep and detailed copyright is. Copyright law is more than make copies of someone else work or just copying word for word someone else's work without giving credit to the author. Copyright law can be broken down into several parts. The major parts to copyright law are intellectual property, fair use, patent, trademark, and trade secrets. We also discussed ethical issues regarding the privacy of students.
The biggest things to take away from the time reading articles and watching videos on this topic is that whether or not there is a copyright symbol present on a work, you cannot simply use it without giving credit to the creator. You cannot create a derivative work unless you first research the work or copyright and get permission to first. Students should know that their works created in the classroom can be copyright, but most students would not know that. Teacher's should also be aware of their academic institutions policy on works, trademarks or patents they research and create can potential belong to the university unless an agreement was sign prior to the start of employment.
Fair use is not to be overly used, there are certain factors that fall under fair use. The purpose of the work, the nature of the copyrighted work, the amount of the work that was used and the effect of the use upon the market. Fair use helps educators be able to use work to teach students. Fair use should not be claimed if the purpose was to make money off of the original work.
The last topic for educators to be aware of is privacy. Teachers need to protect student privacy no matter what age or academic level. Teachers may not share personal information of their student or display student data in a way that identifies the individual student’s achievement or lack there of.
The items in the toolkit were selected to give a clear overview of copyright law. While none of the resources take the place of a copyright lawyer, there is plenty of information to guide both teacher and student away from using another work and infringing upon the rights of the original author or creator of the work.
Task
Intellectual Property
http://www.consultlane.com/intellectual-property/
file:///Users/Chadd/Downloads/ContentServer.asp-3.pdf
file:///Users/Chadd/Desktop/ContentServer.asp-18.pdf
Copyright
http://www.copyrightkids.org/cbasicsframes.htm
https://cfiesler.files.wordpress.com/2014/10/fiesler_cscw2015.pdf
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n68S7-VNbDQhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n68S7-VNbDQ
Fair Use
http://librarycopyright.net/resources/fairuse/
http://www.coetail.com/nalim/files/2013/06/copyright__creativity.007.jpg
http://www.xavier.edu/library/about/documents/Copyright_9-23-08.pdf
Infringement and Personal Rights Violations
file:///Users/Chadd/Desktop/An Exploration of Copyright Law in Distance Education.pdf
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uPnpz8ThRJA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tk862BbjWx4
Privacy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WFO2mX4KLSs
file:///Users/Chadd/Downloads/ContentServer.asp-14.pdf
file:///Users/Chadd/Desktop/North%20Central/Privace%20and%20School%20Data.pdf
file:///Users/Chadd/Desktop/North%20Central/ContentServer.asp-18.pdf
Process
The process in which I decided to create my toolkit was to break down intellectual property and copyright issues down into some main categories. The big categories are intellectual property, copyright, infringement, fair use, personal right violation and privacy. Whether a one teaches on K12 level or in a higher institution, the resources were purposely choose to give clear and precise definitions, descriptions and applications of these topics.
Many of the resources could be used as a resource to the teacher or as instructional aides to teach students about copyright ethics. Other factors that went into choosing resources were to keep things simple. With the amount of data collection and collaboration meeting teacher's must participate in, they do not have time to wade through convoluted legal article after legal article for answers. They need direct answers and resources to use with students.
Evaluation
There are 5 sections in which videos, articles or images connected to websites have been selected. Under each section it is neccessary to have resources that clearly define intellectional property, the components of copy right law, fair use, infringement and privacy. Once these sections are defined, I included a resources that would help explain these components to help the reader/viewer have a better understanding of how copyright law and privacy works. Some of the resources are meant to be teaching aides. Even though a few of the teaching aides seem simple, I felt the gave a clear concise picture of how copyright law can be easily broken and how to avoid breaking copyright law and infringing on another persons intellectual property. I also tried including resources that explain why this is an important topic.
Conclusion
This copyright toolkit is meant to help educators and student have a clear understanding of copyright law. The intent is that the toolkit provides explainations of the different components under copyright, which include, intellectual property, including copyright, fair use, patent, trademark, and trade secret. Infringement is easy to be accused of so it will be important to understand the proper way to obtain permission to use a work, obtain permission to create derivatives works and when a work can be considered fair use. Lastly, plaigiarism is the same as theft and it is important in udnerstanding how to credit knowledge gain by another author.
Credits
An overview on intellectual Property : Copy Right, Patent, Trade Mark etc. - Consultlane.com. (2015). Retrieved May 05, 2016, from http://www.consultlane.com/intellectual-property/
CGPGrey. (2011). Copyright: Forever Less One Day. Retrieved May 7, 2016, from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tk862BbjWx4
Copyright Kids! (n.d.). Retrieved May 05, 2016, from http://www.copyrightkids.org/cbasicsframes.htm
Fair UseEvaluator. (n.d.). Retrieved May 06, 2016, from http://librarycopyright.net/resources/fairuse/
Feigenblatt, O. F., Dominguez, D. C., & Valles, J. E. G. (2015) The family educational rights and privacy right. Journal of Alternative
Perspective in the Social Sciences. 6(3) 329-335.
Excelyse. (2009). FERPA for Faculty. Retrieved May 5, 2016, from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WFO2mX4KLSs
Epigogy, Inc. (2015). Copyright For Online Teachers. Retrieved May 05, 2016, from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n68S7-VNbDQ
Kranch, D. (2008) Who owns online course intellectual property? The Quarterly Review of Distnce Education 9(4) 349-356.
Legal123au. (2013). Copyright Infringement: 5 Myths & Facts - Legal123.com.au. Retrieved May 06, 2016, from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uPnpz8ThRJA
Mandinach, E. B., Parton, B. M., Gummer, E. S. & Anderson, R. (2015) Ethical and appropriate
data use requires data literacy. Kappan 25-28.
Roper, J. (2012) An exploration of copyright law in distance education. Journal of Applied Learning Technology 2(4) 16-20.
Toglia, T. (2007) Details on the family educational rights and privacy act: how does ferpa affect
you? Career and Technical Education 32-35.
Teacher Page
Helpful Tips and Things to remember:
Find articles that explain things practically, do not waste you time trying to wade through articles on litigation.
Some of the resources that are gear towards younger students are packed full of basic information and can help point your towards more specific informaiton on copyright law.
Search images, there are some great graphic organizers that help visualize differences between types of copyrights like trademarks and patents.