Educational Technology and Copyright Law

• Copyrights help protect the original work of authorship. Once something is created it is now copyrighted.
• There are four exclusive rights:
• Reproduce the copyrighted work;
• Display the copyrighted work publicly;
• Prepare derivative works based on the copyrighted work; and
• Distribute copies of the copyrighted work to the public by sale, rental or lending, and/or to display the image.

• A teacher is able to use things that are copyrighted as long as they are for teaching purposes.
• The only thing a teacher can not use is a licensed image.

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