Copyright Seminar
“Copyright is the legal protection of literary, dramatic, artistic, and musical works, sound
recordings, performances, and communication signals. Copyright provides creators with
the legal right to be paid for — and to control the use of — their creations.”
Copyright Matters! Council of Ministers of Education, Canada, 2005
A. COPYRIGHT REALITY CHECK
Common Misconceptions
a) If someone has posted a photograph on the internet, it is free to download and use.
b) You have to register for a copyright on any work you produce.
Facts
c) Companies hire personnel to patrol the internet to find illegal use of their trademarks and logos.
d) It is not enough to just give attribution to digital image when publishing that image in a work that can be viewed outside of the school.
e) Inserting an active hyperlink from your work to digital content is acceptable use.
B. COPYRIGHT COLLECTIVES
*Visual Education Centre (VEC/Criterion) and Audio-Cine Films
*SOCAN (Society of Composers, Authors and Music Publishers of Canada)
*Cable in the Classroom
C. INTERNET AND COPYRIGHT
Copyright Matters! p. 21 of .pdf
D. ASSIGNMENT
Check out the digital images websites on your school library home page. Locate the use agreements to determine if you can use material from these sites
without infringing on copyright. For each site, you are required to do two things:
a) Copy, paste and put into quotation marks the use agreements.
b) Write a sentence in your own words to explain how you, as a student, could use images from that site.