The SurRural Librarian, Pamela Burke's blog postings about current copyright issues.

Joyce Valenza's:

• Copyright-Friendly and Copyleft Images and Sound (Mostly!) for Use in Media Projects and Web Pages, Blogs, Wikis, etc.
•  Guidelines for Multimedia and Web Production

Administrator Copyright Scenerio Checklist   Clear chart including: Type of material, Example of both permissible use and violation, along with suggested remedy for that violation.

Interactives:

A Visit to Copyright Bay  "...intended only to inform and entertain educators about copyright issues in a non-profit setting."

Taking the Mystery Out of Copyright - from the Library of Congress

Copyright Cyberbee -  Interactive Frequently Asked Questions

Disney Copyright Law: Educational video which teaches fair use and copyright laws using Disney Characters.

The Code of Best Practices in Fair Use for Media Literacy Education outlines five principles, each with limitations:

Educators can, under some circumstances:

1. Make copies of newspaper articles, TV shows, and other copyrighted works, and use them and keep them for educational use.
2. Create curriculum materials and scholarship with copyrighted materials embedded.
3. Share, sell and distribute curriculum materials with copyrighted materials embedded.

Learners can, under some circumstances:

1. Use copyrighted works in creating new material.
2. Distribute their works digitally if they meet the transformativeness standard.

To for more information and to view a video, go to http://www.centerforsocialmedia.org/resources/publications/code_for_media_literacy_education/

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