What is the deal with Copyright?
Is copyright confusing? Check out the following table from Hal Davison's site : eachers in the classroom make the decisions closest to the field of instruction and it is teachers that have been the greatest rights---rights that even their districts do not have. This Copyright Chart was designed to inform teachers of what they may do under the law. Please reproduce it as necessary. A pdf form of the chart is available at http://www.mediafestival.org/downloads.html . CLASSROOM COPYRIGHT CHART Medium What You Can Do The Fine Print Printed Material Poem less than 250 words Excerpt of 250 words from a poem greater than 250 words Articles, stories, or essays less than 2,500 words Excerpt from a longer work (10% of work or 1,000 words, whichever is less--but a minimum of 500 words) One chart, picture,