Fair Use

1.What is the difference between Media in Education vs Media Literacy Education

Media literacy is the capacity to access, analyze, evaluate, and communicate messages

in a wide variety of forms and media in education is teachers using text, audiovisual and digital material to convey facts and information to teach a class.

2.What social bargain is at the heart of Fair use?

The social bargain that is at the heart of Fair Use is the cultural value of copying.

3.Why is Fair Use more important today?

            Fair use is more important today because copyright protects more works for longer periods than ever before, and creators face new challenges, and are sometimes simply unavailable.

4.What are the two key questions judges use to determine Fair Use?

• Did the unlicensed use “transform” the material taken from the copyrighted work by using it for a different purpose than that of the original, or did it just repeat the work for the same intent and value as the original?

• Was the material taken appropriate in kind and amount, considering the nature of the copyrighted work and of the use?

5.A teacher shows a movie of The Lion King and asks student to notice how the animals in the movie reflect racial stereotypes. Is this Fair Use? Why?

            Yes because the teacher used the movie in the classroom to teach the students

6.Which principle relates most strongly to the digital story you created in class? Explain.

Principle four: students’ use of copyrighted materials in their own academic and creative work.

7.Are there limitations to the amount of pictures, length of music, or video that can be used in a multimedia project?

            No

8.Do you need to request permission from the original creator in order to use copyrighted material in multimedia project for school related assignment?

            No

9.Should educators try to change the policies in their school in they are not in line with Fair Use doctrine?

            Yes, because students need to understand what is acceptable with in the Fair Use policies.

10.What common myth about Fair Use surprised you the most?

            School system rules are the last word of fair use by educators.