Copyright Guidelines for APS

All staff and students in the Arab City School System should adhere to the provisions of the copyright law (Title 17, United States Code).

Copyright regulations pertain to all types of materials including print and nonprint.
The “Copyright and Fair Use Guidelines for Teachers” chart should be used to inform staff and students of what is permissible under the law.

The four criteria of fair use for copyrighted works are:

The purpose and character of the use of the work (whether the use is of a commercial nature or is for nonprofit educational purposes),
The nature of the copyrighted work (factual work versus fictitious work),
The amount and substantiality (extent) of the portion used in relationship to the
copyrighted work as a whole (quantity and quality of portion used),
The effect of the use upon the potential market for or value of the copyrighted work.
Teachers and staff are responsible for copyright compliance for themselves and for their students in their students' assigned work.

Multimedia refers to the combining of different types of media including but not limited to text, music, film, digitized images, and graphics. Teachers and students must follow copyright guidelines for each type of media used in creating a multimedia production. In addition to listing all their sources in a concluding bibliography, authors must include on the opening screen a statement that the presentation contains copyrighted material which has been used under the fair use exemption of the U. S. Copyright Law. Students may use their own multimedia projects that contain copyrighted material only in the class or course for which they were created. An educator is required to obtain permission for each portion of copyrighted material after two years of fair use. The fair use provisions of the Copyright Law do not extend to Web publishing. Written permission from the owner of each piece of copyrighted material must be obtained before any work is published on the Internet. Information about obtaining permission is available from your librarian. Written permission must be obtained from the student and parent before posting student work on the Internet. These copyright guidelines will be revised as needed.

Davidson, Hall. "Copyright and Fair Use Guidelines for Teachers." October 2002.
Technology and Learning. 30 June 2003 .