Fair Use

By: Cailin Heffernan

Hope Hurley

The Law!

The United States copyright law is contained in chapters 1 through 8

and 10 through 12 of title 17 of the United States Code. The Copyright
Act of 1976, which provides the basic framework for the current
copyright law, was enacted on October 19, 1976, as Pub. L. No. 94-553,
90 Stat. 2541. (Copyright law of the United States of America, preface)

What Does
That Mean???

What is Copyright?

The legal right to print, publish, perform, or film any material.

The copyright law protects individuals property from being used

illegally.

Would you like it if someone stole your work? NO!

If someones work is original, creative, and tangible, it is most likely

copyrighted.

Most copyrighted work will have an encircled C.

What is Fair Use?

The legal use of copyrighted materials without permission is called Fair

Use.

No specific amount of words that can be used without permission.

Writing the authors name does not count as permission.

Deciding if it is legal

General Legal Use

- Legal Public use

- You bought a Frozen CD. You can put the music on your computer
or Ipod legally.

Deciding if it is legal

Fair Use
- Using material under the Fair Use guidelines.

- If you make a PowerPoint you can use up to 30 seconds of audio to

help your PowerPoint to be cool!
The clip of music from Frozen is only 24 seconds, so that is ok.

Deciding if it is legal

Illegal Use
- This is a violation of copyright and the Fair Use guidelines
- Copying a song that you did not buy, and giving it to a friend is not ok!
- Illegally downloading music for free is also not ok!

Need Help?

http://www.cwu.edu/~eldridg
em/copyright.html

Make Sure You Use Fair Use!

I Get It
Now!