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“Acronym Soup”
What laws should teachers be aware of?
Ingredients:
● Use advanced search strategies to find resources about your topic
● Gather information about your topic
○ What should we know as teachers?
○ What should we teach to our students?
○ What should we educate parents about?
○ Are there images/logos associated with this topic?
● Triangulate resources
● Prepare at least one slide with pertinent information for your peers
● Include images associated your topic
● Use appropriate citations
Partners - Group B
● Copyright: Ariel & Margot
● Fair Use: Melanie & Madysen
● Creative Commons: Teagan & Maddie P
● COPPA: Maddie M & Julia
● CIPA: Sophie & Hannah
● FERPA: Kendall & Patrick
● eRate: Alyssa
Public Domain
The term “public domain” refers to creative materials that are not protected by intellectual property laws such as
copyright, trademark, or patent laws. The public owns these works, not an individual author or artist. Anyone can
use a public domain work without obtaining permission, but no one can ever own it.

- Source:
https://fairuse.stanford.edu/overview/public-domain/welcome/#:~:text=The%20term%20%E2%80%9Cpublic
%20domain%E2%80%9D%20refers,one%20can%20ever%20own%20it.

For teachers, when creating lessons for students teachers can use resources from the public domain without
having to worry about copyright rules. Also, generally the items in the public domain tend to be free, so that saves
teachers and schools money.

A good example for early childhood students could be how almost all of Disney is NOT a part of the public domain.
This is an example that most of the population can relate to.

- Source: https://tedium.co/2019/01/03/public-domain-disney/

Picture source:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public-domain_software#/media/File:Cc-public_domain_mark_white.svg
Copyright
- the exclusive legal right, given to an originator or an assignee to print, publish, perform, film, or record literary, artistic, or musical material, and to
authorize others to do the same. (google dictionary)
- “When in doubt copyright it out!”
- Source: Margot

What Teachers Need to Know:

- What materials they can use without needing permission

- How to get permission to use certain materials
- How to get a copyright for your own materials that you produce in class
- Copyright Exceptions
- Source: https://www.loc.gov/legal/understanding-copyright/#teachers

What Students Need to Know:

- How to cite something that has a copyright

- What needs to be cited and what does not
- How to recognize the copyright symbols

What Parents Need to Know:

Image from:
- How to show their children what needs to be cited https://digital.gov/2013/05/04/video-copyright
- How to communicate with teachers about copyright materials /
Fair Use
○ Definition:
● the doctrine that brief excerpts of copyright material may, under certain circumstances, be
quoted verbatim for purposes such as criticism, news reporting, teaching, and research, without
the need for permission from or payment to the copyright holder.
○ What should we know as teachers?
● Teachers should know the multiple situations that allow them to directly quote information
without it being considered copyrighting.
○ What should we teach to our students?
● We should teach our students the situations in which it is okay for them to quote information
word for word and when it is not okay.
○ What should we educate parents about?
● We should educate parents about the ways in which is it acceptable to quote verbatim without it
being illegal, so they can help their children understand what fair use is.
● Are there images/logos associated with this topic?

https://languages.oup.com/google-dictionary-en/
Creative Commons:
Definition: “(CC) is an internationally active non-profit organisation that provides free licences for creators to use when making
their work available to the public. These licences help the creator to give permission for others to use the work in advance under
certain conditions” -https://www.smartcopying.edu.au/open-education/creative-commons/creative-commons-information-pack-for-teachers-and-students/what-is-creative-commons-

What Teachers Should Know: Teachers should know that they can use creative works for free if given advance permission. This
allows teachers to use these resources in the classroom and with their students. This includes many educational
resources, books and videos. https://creativecommons.org/

What Students Should Know: Students can understand that many of the resources that their teachers have in the classroom for
them have creative commons and they can use these as they please because of this license. The books and
comics they read, games that they play, and images that they look at or see are some examples.
What Should Parents Know: Parents should know that not all work is copyrighted and that information can be used as they

please. “Creative Commons offers licenses and tools to the public free of charge and does not require that
creators or other rights holders register with CC in order to apply a CC license to a work” -https://creativecommons.org/faq/
Logos & Images Associated with Creative Commons: CC Image from: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creative_Commons_license
 COPPA
Children’s Online Privacy and Protection Act- how websites, apps. Other online operators
collect data and personal information from kids under 13. (Common sense).

- What should we know as teachers?

Consent from parents needs to happen before collecting information about students. Know your school’s policy about
new technologies and use them wisely. This means avoiding certain websites and sticking to tools that are beneficial for
students and does not require their private information.
- What should we teach to our students?
We should teach our students that they should not put their private information online such as their address, birthday, full
name, etc.
- What should we educate parents about?
Parents should see that there are sites that require parental permission before accessing. They should be made aware of
what their child is able to see on the internet and what should be blocked/ as well as apps seen on the internet.
- Are there images/logos associated with this topic?
https://www.kidzvuz.com/ This website is useful because it is a safe, video review sharing site for kids and has a
community or children following rules
https://www.commonsense.org/education/articles/what-is-coppa
Picture source: https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2020/01/13/lawmakers-look-to-spread-coppa-out-to-cover-kids-up-to-16/
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/5-things-parents-should-know-about-coppa_b_3955427
CIPA:
● CIPA stands for the Children’s Internet Protection Act.
○ Under this act schools and libraries must provide a policy that protects
children using the internet, especially from obscene or inappropriate
content.
○ If schools and libraries follow these guidelines, they can receive
discounted internet service.
What teachers need to know:
- Under the law, schools that receive federal E-rate funding must include digital
citizenship concepts in their curriculum.
- Teachers must be aware of concepts they must teach for CIPA requirements and for
their individual districts
What Parents need to know:
- Parents should research if their school has e-rate funding and if so, what their safety
policy is
- Parents can give consent for children’s personal information to be used by schools
and libraries for children under the age of 13
- Parents cannot request the disabling of parental controls on any network covered by
CIPA
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 FERPA
Definition: The Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA) is a federal law enacted in 1974 that protects the
privacy of student education records.

Teachers should know what information is okay to disclose

When students turn 18 they take over the rights that their parents had when they were younger.

Parents have certain rights pertaining to their child’s education records. They can ask for the student’s record to be
changed if the information is wrong or misleading.

Schools may disclose some information like the students name without consent

https://www.ivycollegeadmit.com/ferpa/

https://www2.ed.gov/policy/gen/guid/fpco/ferpa/index.html

https://www.cdc.gov/phlp/publications/topic/ferpa.html
 eRate
As a teacher, it is important to know:

An E-Rate Program can provide discounts to eligible schools/libraries in order to gain access to the internet and telecommunication services.

- Source: https://www.usac.org/wp-content/uploads/e-rate/documents/Handouts/E-rate-Overview.pdf

Typically, elementary, secondary, private and religious schools all have access to these discounts assuming they have an endowment of less than
$50 million and are not for profit.

- Source: https://www.erateadvantage.com/what-is-erate/

In order to receive the funding. It must be certified that the school is taking action to “protect the online safety of minors, limit the access and/or
monitor the online activities of students, filter and block obscene materials, and provide a reasonable public notice of your internet safety policies” as
well as complying to things like CIPA.

- Source:
https://www.commonsense.org/education/articles/essential-guide-to-digital-citizenship-for-cipa-and-e-rate#What%20does%20E-rate%20ha
ve%20to%20do%20with%20digital%20citizenship?%20What%20are%20the%20educational%20requirements%20for%20compliance?
- This link above has more information on e-rate.

This allows teachers to inform parents that their children will be safe on the internet because the school is complying with with the regulations in
order to receive the discounts. In terms of students, they can be taught digital citizenship lessons based on last week’s presentations.