Digital Copyright for 21st Century Citizenship

I attended a Digital Copyright webinar today put on by Barry Britt @ Soundzabound.com.  This was perhaps one of the clearest meetings I've ever attended on copyright.

Below are some of my notes and links that were shared.

4 Useful articles

• Piracy in Education
• Piracy Proofing Your Schools
• Fair Use Guidelines for Educational Multimedia
• How to Get Media Permissions for Your Videos and other Media

Important points of Fair Use:

• Relevant to course content (no background)
• Used for face to face instruction on a closed network
• No duplication for distribution
• Credit/cite the copyright holder
• One-time use
• Licenses and contracts supersede fair use

Things to Consider

• many artists don’t make as much as teachers
• people are getting sued
• students have copyrights / district usually has some ownership too / teacher / campus
• If student is under 18 parents have rights as well.  Must have parent permission.
• Offer an opt out for parents/students

We are all owners of our own image/brand
Image is Everything

Soundzabound.com has a slew of links to info and articles on Digital Citizenship. You can find everything they have here: http://www.soundzabound.com/links

Barry Britt from Soundzabound did a great job and you can see his presentation yourself here below. Barry can be contacted @ barryb@soundzabound.com :