Educational Technology and Copyright Law

• Copyright is a United States federal law that protects original “works of authorship” which include literary, written, dramatic, artistic, musical and certain other types of works.
• You have four rights when using copyrighted work
• use the copyrighted work
• show the copyrighted work publicly
• prepare your work based on the copyrighted product
• Distribute copies of the copyrighted work to the public
• To use copyrighted work fairly use these step
• always reference to the original work
• bring up the nature of the work
• For class work projects you are allowed to use images from the internet
• Many images are licenced