Legal/ Ethical Guidelines in the Research and/or Production Process

Copyright and Fair UseAcademic Integrity

When you put a passage from a source into your own words and you give credit to the source.

When you use a passage from a source word for word and you give credit to the source.

Works (music, images, etc.) that are either ineligible for copyright protection or have expired copyrights. They are available for people to use without having to cite the source.

Ethical Use Vocabulary

E

F

C

This is a legal tool where the author may grant (or not) permission to distribute, modify, perform, copy, display, or otherwise use the intellectual property.

When it is okay to use copyrighted work for purposes such as criticism, comments, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, or research. It is not an infringement of copyright.When you put only the main points of a passage into your own words and you give credit to the source.

When you take someone else's work or ideas and you do not give credit to the source.

Ethical Use Vocabulary

A

B

G

D

HCPS Copyright Policy as stated on HCPS.org

What Can be Copyrighted?

• Literary works• Musical works,

including accompanying words

• Dramatic works• Pictorial, graphic,

and sculptural works

• Motion pictures and other audio visual works

• Sound recordings• Architectural works

Fair Use:

Public educational institutions are granted limited use of copyrighted

material through fair use guidelines.

Fair Use: Printed Material

Fair Use: Multi-Media Productions and Software

Fair Use: Video

Resources in the Public Domain

Pics4learning.com

Commons.wikimedia.org

http://flickr.com/photos/smithsonian

http://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Main_Page

http://librivox.org/

http://www.archive.org/

http://copyrightfriendly.wikispaces.com/home

Academic Integrity: Plagiarism Prevention Tips

• Discuss Plagiarism and Develop Clear Classroom Policies

• Evaluate Your Research Topic/ Question

• Long- Term Planning

• Citing Sources• Paraphrasing• Note-Taking

Mistakes

Copyright/ Ethical Use Resources

Hcps.org

SharePoint

Discussion Scenarios

• You are having students create a photostory on the computer for a group project. How do you instruct your students to find pictures to use? What limits do you put on the music they can use?

• You are beginning a research project on Egypt with your class. What steps do you take before and during the project to prevent plagiarism?