Dziorny, Gail
LS 521 SP02
March 22, 2002
In scenario 1, the teacher has a rowdy bunch of students
who make a power point presentation, complete with graphics. According to the
‘Fair use Guidelines for Educational Multimedia’ students are allowed to
“create educational multimedia projects containing copyrighted material to use
their projects for educational uses in the course for which they were created.”
The students are required to credit the source, display the copyright notice,
and provide copyright ownership information. They must state on the opening
screen and on any accompanying print material a notice that certain materials
are included under the fair use exemption of the U. S. Copyright Law. No more
than two copies of the project may be made and online instructional projects
may be used only over a secure network for a period of 15 days after initial
use. Students may not make their own copies and projects cannot be replicated
or distributed. As for the graphics, a limit of 5 photographs or illustrations
by one person and no more than 15 images or 10 percent, whichever is less, of
the photographs or illustrations from a single published work. If these
guidelines are followed, this activity is allowed.
In scene 4, you find an outstanding World Wide Web site
and you want your page to contain some of the wonderfulness of the site on your
own page. Myth # 3 addresses this issue-since I’m using a small portion of the
original work, I don’t need permission. The courts have consistently held that
you cannot escape liability by showing how much of a work you did not take. The
courts look at the purpose of the work, the nature of the work, the amount and
importance of the portions used in relation to the whole and the effect of the
use on the potential market. Even if the copy is small, it might be important,
and therefore a copyright infringement. This activity, therefore, may or may
not be allowed, depending on the criteria mentioned above.