The Intel Teach to the Future course used to have a great Powerpoint on this subject.  Basically for music you can use 10% of the work and no more than 30 sec whichever is the lesser part of the work.  For photos or video you have to have written permission from the creator.  

Finally and as a word of caution, Do NOT use anything from the Disney Corp or any of their subsidiaries.  They really will hunt you down and at a fine of $125,000 per incident most schools do not have the money to pay.  This includes anything you copy from 3rd party sources.

John Peters
Network Administrator
Morristown School District

-----Original Message-----
From: School Information Technology Discussion on behalf of Dave Tisdell
Sent: Fri 5/4/2007 10:00 AM
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Subject: Re: Copyright and Webpage
 
Hi Joanne,

I don't have an answer for you about music sources except in the "create your own category". With the advent of the midi project, many school music programs include composition as part of the curriculum. Perhaps teachers and students could be encouraged to collaborate across disciplines more frequently and get t more student created music into those kinds of presentations/projects.Just a thought.
As a side note,  unfortunately, with the current pressures of standardized testing, it makes cross discipline work more challenging to bring off.

Dave

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>>> Joanne Finnegan <[log in to unmask]> 5/4/2007 9:42 AM >>>
I'm continually struggling with the whole copyright thing with teachers who want to put work online.  I think I've finally got the whole parent permission thing across to them and under control.  Now we are at the stage where teachers want kids to do PowerPoint, podcasts with music, digital stories with scanned pictures, etc, and put them on web pages.  Teachers are so used to classroom "fair use" that they don't realize that posting on the web opens up a totally different can or worms. 

1)  Does anyone have suggestions for music sources that are available for use in this way, other than kids creating their own?

2)  Does anyone have a short and sweet, "this is what you can and can't do" document to teach our copyright-challenged teachers?

Thanks for any information!

Joanne

Joanne Finnegan
Technology Integration Specialist
Chittenden East Supervisory Union
(voice) (802) 899-4690 x 502
(fax) (802) 899-2904
 


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