Fair Use

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Fair Use is the idea we can borrow someone else's copyrighted work for special circumstances like: education, making a newscast, critiquing, or making a parody. Fair Use is a loophole in the copyright law people can claim to justify copyright infringement. However, Fair Use is not a right and is ultimately left to a judge to determine whether the claimed "Fair Use" is justifiable. 

There are four criteria to be examined before you can claim the copyright infringement to be a Fair Use.

Copyright

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This month we have been learning about copyright, public domain, fair use, and creative commons. This is an important topic as our learners begin to create and share digital files. We want our kiddos making good choices as they become part of the global community via the internet. 

Students were empowered to learn their intellectual works fall under copyright protection as soon as they are created. That means others have to ask permission before using them. Works are protected automatically with or without the copyright symbol ©. In other words, if you would like to use an image from a website and you don't know if the image is copyrighted, assume that it is. All works (manuscripts, images, audio, and video) are copyright protected unless otherwise noted. Posting something online doesn't automatically put it in the public domain.