Fair+Use+and+Copyright

**Fair Use and Copyright guidelines:**
• Videos, films and television clips: Use up to 10 percent or 3 minutes, whichever is less of an individual program.

• Music videos: Use up to 10 percent but not more than 30 seconds from a single work. If a video has music in the background that is copyright protected, and you can't separate the music from the visual material, there is a 30- second limitation. There are sources on the Internet for royalty free music, sound effects, images and would not be bound by copyright limits.

• Fair use provisions of the copyright law grant educators the right to use certain copyrighted materials as long as we meet the defined guidelines. Fair use balances the free use with the rights of the author/owner to sell his/her work. The burden of proving fair use falls to the educator using the material, so knowledge of copyright law and associated guidelines is essential to librarians and educators using copyrighted works. Contact your school librarian/library tech for fair use clarification or your district admin or website for additional information.

CopyrightEducation.org

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