Educators and students are advised to exercise caution in using digital material
downloaded from the Internet in producing their own educational multimedia
projects, because there is a mix of works protected by copyright and works in the
public domain on the network. Access to works on the Internet does not
automatically mean that these can be reproduced and reused without permission
or royalty payment and, furthermore, some copyrighted works may have been
posted to the Internet without authorization of the copyright holder.
6.2 Attribution and Acknowledgement
Educators and students are reminded to credit the sources and display the
copyright notice © and copyright ownership information if this is shown in the
original source, for all works incorporated as part of the educational multimedia
projects prepared by educators and students, including those prepared under fair
use. Crediting the source must adequately identify the source of the work, giving a
full bibliographic description where available (including author, title, publisher, and
place and date of publication). The copyright ownership information includes the
copyright notice (©, year of first publication and name of the copyright holder).
The credit and copyright notice information may be combined and shown in a
separate section of the educational multimedia project (e.g. credit section) except
for images incorporated into the project for the uses described in Section 3.2.3. In
such cases, the copyright notice and the name of the creator of the image must be
incorporated into the image when, and to the extent, such information is
reasonably available; credit and copyright notice information is considered
"incorporated" if it is attached to the image file and appears on the screen when
the image is viewed. In those cases when displaying source credits and copyright
ownership information on the screen with the image would be mutually exclusive
with an instructional objective (e.g. during examinations in which the source credits
and/or copyright information would be relevant to the examination questions),
those images may be displayed without such information being simultaneously
displayed on the screen. In such cases, this information should be linked to the
image in a manner compatible with such instructional objectives.
6.3 Notice of Use Restrictions
Educators and students are advised that they must include on the opening screen
of their multimedia program and any accompanying print material a notice that
certain materials are included under the fair use exemption of the U.S. Copyright
Law and have been prepared according to the multimedia fair use guidelines and
are restricted from further use.
6.4 Future Uses Beyond Fair Use
Educators and students are advised to note that if there is a possibility that their
own educational multimedia project incorporating copyrighted works under fair use
could later result in broader dissemination, whether or not as commercial product,
it is strongly recommended that they take steps to obtain permissions during the
development process for all copyrighted portions rather than waiting until after
completion of the project.
6.5 Integrity of Copyrighted Works: Alterations
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