COPYRIGHT

• Teaching & Learning provides charts for teachers and administrators, lessons and ethical issues

• Journal columns on copyright include:

  • "Social Resposibility" in Knowledge Quest

  • "Copyright question of the month" LMC: Library Media Connection

  • "Carrie on Copyright" School Library Journal-- topics are hotlink at W. Hartford Schools

• Heartland Agency provides a Copyright Condensed Guide(.pdf)

• Jennifer Maydole, Visual Communications gives workshops and has resource links and streaming video

• Play it Cybersafe: Teaching Kids about Cybercrime - Addresses the legal issues kids need to know: financial, piracy & copyright infringement, hacking, cyber-terrorism, pornography, etc.

• Educator's Guide to Copyright and Fair Use - A five-part article about copyrights and copywrongs, Fair use, Copyright law and new technologies, applying fair use to new technologies, District liability and teaching responsibility.

• Copyright Implementation Manual, Groton, CT Public Schools - this 2000 update by the Media Technology Services of Groton Public Schools is intended to reflect the concepts in the Digital Millenium Copyright Act.

• Copyright and Data Protection information from ALA - covers the most recent updates to the copyright law, by the American Library Association

• Public Domain or Copyrighted?- This easy chart explains the longevity of copyright, and when things become public domain. From the University of North Carolina Law Center.

• Full Text of the Copyright Act from the Library of Congress

• National Assoc. of College Stores provides some wuick answer quides and pdf forms for students with ADA requirements to allow you to convert material to a usable media

• Copyright ideas and questions concerning video material from PBS TeacherSource

• Brad Templeton's 10 Myths about Copyright

• Linda Ellerbee's Cyberbee Copyright- Flash animation Q&A enjoyable way to show students the key points

• Sample School District Copyright Policies:

  • Bellingham

Creative Commons-- the new way to  legally reuse and share cultural, educational,  and scientific works.

  Look for this logo and learn the rights that are being offered. You can contribute by listed your own creations with a Creative Commons logo and wording so that others may freely use your work for educational and nonprofit work.

Teach your secondary students about copyright through the Copyright Comics, a project from Duke University that may be downloaded as .pdf file, viewed as Flash file or as a plain .html web page

Chilling Effects maintains news items and information about online rights- Electronic Freedom Foundation with several university law centers at  chillingeffects.org