In an effort to add some humor to our blog, I googled education cartoons, with the hopes of uploading some pearl. I saw several relevant cartoons and the big red copyright sign--so I decided to investigate and here is what I found.
In his article Are you a Copyright Criminal Dave Zelinsky make the following points:
Copyright owners have five exclusive rights:
The right to reproduce the copyrighted work.
The right to distribute copies of a copyrighted work to the public.
The right to prepare derivative works, or creations based on the original.
The right to perform the copyrighted work publicly.
The right to display copyrighted work publicly.
Abuse any of those rights -- that is, photocopy, distribute, customize, publicly perform or display someone else's original work without permission -- and you're breaking the law.
Copyright protection now lasts for the lifetime of the author or creator, plus 70 years.
To be in the public domain -- and free of copyright complications -- information on the Web must have been placed there "expressly or deliberately" by the copyright owner himself, most obviously with an accompanying note saying, "I grant this to the public domain."
Interesting stuff. I emailed the cartoonist for his permission to post his cartoon on our site, when I hear back I'll post it.
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What a great post. I have been quite confused by the rules as it pertains to copyright infringement. When my kids were researching for History Day projects, our understanding was that a single copy of an image, or one photocopy of some info, was okay as long as proper credit was given to the source, that there were no copyright restrictions posted, and that it wasn't widely distributed from that point, and that it was for "educational Purposes." Does this sound like at all what you read. It seems like your definition was much more restrictive? It would be nice to understand this better, as we research topics for our students and assign research to our students.
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