Copyright and Proper Citations (week 7)

Three things I think students should remember about Copyright and FairUse Resources:

1--Most information is FairUse if you use it in limited amounts and for a limited audience.  For example, selecting a quote from a book and using it in your presentation to the class is acceptable, but quoting an entire chapter and putting it up on the school web-page is not.

2--Most information is FairUse if it is being used spontaneously and for educational purposes.  For example, if I am watching the news and a relevant topic comes up, I may record it and share it with my class the next day.  I cannot, however, continue to use that same news-clip year after year.  Most things pass out of the public domain in about 10 days.

3--The information is out there for you to use, but it is your job to use it fairly and give credit where credit is due.  Take the time to look up the proper way to cite, access and share information.  Here are a few sites with good information on this:

http://www.copyrightkids.org/

http://fairuse.stanford.edu/Copyright_and_Fair_Use_Overview/chapter9/9-b.html

Teaching Students to Properly Cite WWW Resources:

Links to good resources:

Using APA Style to Cite and Document Sources

http://www.bedfordstmartins.com/online/cite6.html

http://www.lib.duke.edu/libguide/cite/works.cited.html

http://www.apastyle.org/elecref.html

Here are instructions and an example of how to cite a web page without an author:

Organization name [no author].  Title of work.  Retrieved month, day, year, from: URL

BBC.  British History Timeline.  Retrieved March 4, 2008 from:  http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/launch_tl_british.shtml