Have you ever found a video, worksheet, poem, book, or short story you would like to use in the classroom with your students but have been scared of using it because of copyright issues? I have, and it's pretty frustrating, especially when is a really good one. Well, I have found a solution to it! Recently I read an article about copyright and how teacher can be able to use copyrighted material in their classrooms without breaking the law.
Their is something called "fair use", this is like a "Advance To Go" Monopoly game card for teachers, that is part of the 1976 Copyright Act in section 107. With this benefit allow teachers limited use of copyright material within the educational field, and only dedicated for teaching. Did you knew about that? Well their are some guidelines you need to follow in order to not break any laws. Here is a link to a website that has created a creative and interactive portal to learn about Copyright laws and the "Fair Use" clause:
Copyright Bay
After reading about all this, I took a quiz that to my surprise I got 75% on my first try! Today I took it again, scoring a 100% which means a lot because most of the questions were tricky. The answer to this quiz were shocking! Many things that I thought weren't breaking copyright rules were! But thankfully I know better now, which will let me incorporate great resources to my future lessons. Hopefully copyright laws are modified in the coming years to our benefit as educators.
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