“Fair Use” is a part of our United States copyright law. It means it is fair for a student to use part or all of someone else’s picture, photo, music, or video in a school project.
The rules change, depending on whether you will use it in a project or on the web. Click here for a chart that will help you understand exactly what the rules are.
BTW, our copyright laws protect your work, too; nobody else can use your work unless YOU give permission. (You know how long that music took for you to compose!)
B. Myers-Letson
Revised 8.2007
Revised 8.2007
Sometimes work is in the Public Domain. This means you don’t have to follow the “Fair Use” rules. Here are some Public Domain sites to find Video, Graphics, Poetry, and Music.
In the Danbury Public Schools, we ALWAYS give credit to anybody else’s work we have used, whether we’ve used it in a simple project or in a project to be posted on the web.
If you don’t know whether the work is in the public domain, treat it as if it is NOT, and follow the Fair Use Rules!
