Dina's Copyright blog

Here's a list of points that stood out to me on the three sites I visited. I am confused about whether it's legal to screen rented videos or taped television shows, in my classroom. I got several of the quiz questions wrong without understanding why.

--Fair use guidelines are "rules of thumb" rather than laws.
--Multiple copies of a play or book, even if it's no longer published, are copyright infringements.
--Fair use only applies to non-profits, including education.
--J.D. Salinger has a good case against the European whose writing a sequel to Catcher in the Rye.
--Copying workbooks and standardized tests is prohibited.
--Copies have to be made at educational site, not at commercial venue like Kinkos which lost a major lawsuit for copying anthologies.
--Fair use limits the amount one can copy.
--Teachers can share their multimedia projects at educator conventions and in their job portfolios.
--No infringement as long as multimedia is sent to secure remote sites where only enrolled students have access to transmission.
--Libraries can only have one copy of, say, a DVD, not a copy and a backup copy.
--Newspapers and news periodicals and NOT limited to 9 copies per semester. As a journalism teacher, this is good to know.
--It's infringement when you copy from one format to another without permission.
--Teachers can only show films in line with curricular objectives. Can't show non-educational films even as a reward or show films in extracurricular settings.