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"With fear, uncertainty and misinformation dominating the discourse of copyright and intellectual property, fair use has become one of the most vexing issues in today's academic landscape. What can we do to demystify its mysteries and debunk its supposed dangers?"

Created though a partnership among the Media Education Lab at Temple University, the Center for Social Media at American University (AU), and AU's Washington College of Law, with funding from the MacArthur Foundation, the code identifies five principles of consensus about acceptable practices for the fair use of copyrighted materials, wherever and however it occurs: in K-12 schools, higher-education institutions, nonprofit groups that offer media-education programs for children and youth, and adult-education programs. 1. Employing copyrighted material in media-literacy lessons 2. Employing copyrighted material in preparing curriculum materials 3. Sharing media-literacy curriculum materials 4. Student use of copyrighted materials in their own academic and creative work 5. Developing audiences for student work

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This curriculum is designed to give teachers a comprehensive set of tools to educate students about copyright while incorporating activities that exercise a variety of learning skills. Lesson topics include: the history of copyright law; the relationship between copyright and innovation; fair use and its relationship to remix culture; peer-to-peer file sharing; and the interests of the stakeholders that ultimately affect how copyright is interpreted by copyright owners, consumers, courts, lawmakers, and technology innovators.

Code of B e s t Pr a c t i c e s in Fair Use for Media Literacy Education

Truly cool tool from Google inspires learners' questions and projects. Input what you are good at, what subject you enjoy, and what you want to do, and Google provides a tapestry (Yes, I just used the word "tapestry.") of links, videos, books, and other resources to get the creative juices flowing.

Just type pwn to download YouTube videos * Download Standard Quality Video (FLV) Free Player for FLV files * Download High Quality Video (MP4) NOTE: This version is not always available QuickTime player from Apple No software. No copy/paste. Any computer. Fair rights use.

Funded by federal government. Curriculum, webinars, podcasts, links and more about Copyright and Fair Use in Education.

Finally The End To Copyright Confusion Has Arrived

Great collaborative conversation about issues addressing Copyright and Fair Use in education.

Allow your students to learn about Copyright via a simulated legal debate Walt Disney Studios Vs Faden.s

Interactive copyright protection timeline.