Summercore HW-fair use & Copyright

While some of copyright is a no-brainer (software, copying CD’s), some of it remains gray for me. Am I in the minority? I found Lynne’s link to the Teachers First site on copyright and fair use to be helpful, but I would love a more interactive approach. Could we devote even 20 minutes at an early faculty meeting this year to a mock quiz with case-study questions, some easy, others not so evident? Perhaps Steve and Mary could come up with sample scenarios, and solicit others from faculty in advance. Examples: For Lauren’s imovie project, she has several purchased CDs with French music. Can students use one of the songs as background for their imovie? or It’s an hour before Lauren’s French II class and Flickr has the perfect image of a French deli-type store for her SmartBoard lesson. Can she use it if she copies and pastes the url?

It would be interesting to see how faculty respond (without putting anyone on the spot) and I would find it very helpful.