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On this page we will explore copyright and the Fair Use Act and how they affect education.
Template to use to request right to use copyrighted material  The video using Disney movies: http://eduwikius.wikispaces.com/Copyright

Tool for Supporting the Fair Use Reasoning Process wiki and pdf http://copyrightconfusion.wikispaces.com/Reasoning

Article 1 - The Legislative Branch Section 8 - Powers of Congress
Congress shall have Power.... - promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries;

Key points:
(from __Complete Copyright: an Everyday Guide for Librarians__ by Carrie Russell, ed. American Library Association)
 * Science and arts should be encouraged
 * The purpose of copyright is creation and dissemination of knowledge
 * Congress is granted the power to encourage creation of new works, but only via a very specific method, by granting authors and inventors exclusive rights
 * Rights granted are for a limited time
 * That authors and inventors benefit from copyright is a side effect of encouraging the dissemination of knowledge, NOT a direct intent of copyright
 * The rights of authors and inventors are granted by Congress and are NOT intrinsic or natural

http://www.copyright.gov/ U.S. copyright law, found in [|Title 17] of the [|United States Code], establishes broad criteria for copyright protection. According to the law, copyrightable work must be //tangible.//

A great joke told -- or a great song sung -- isn't protected by copyright until it's written down or recorded. Copyrightable work must also be //creative.//

Facts are not copyrightable -- although a clever collection of facts might be. Ideas are not copyrightable -- although a particular expression of an idea probably is.

**Exclusive Rights of Copyright:**
Are outlined in Section 106 of the U. S. copyright law
 * 1) to reproduce the copyrighted work in copies or phonorecords
 * 2) to prepare derivative works based upon the copyrighted work
 * 3) to distribute copies of phonorecords of the copyrighted work to the public by sale or other transfer ow ownership, or by rental, lease of lending
 * 4) to perform copyrighted work publicly (literary, musical, dramatic, choreographed works, pantomines, motion pictures and other audiovisual works)
 * 5) to display the copyrighted work **publicly** (literary, musical, dramatic, choreographed works, pantomines, and pictorial, graphic, or sculptural works, including the individual images of a motion picture or other audiovisual work)
 * 6) in the case of sound recordings, to perform the copyrighted work publicly by means of a **digital audio transmission**