According to a press release issued today by American University’s Center for Social Media, the Code of Best Practices in Fair Use for Media Literacy Education will be released November 11th in an attempt to educate educators about the types of materials they can use without permission in classrooms. The code was developed by the National Association for Media Literacy Education, the Action Coalition for Media Education, the National Council of Teachers of English, the Visual Communication Studies Division of the International Communication Association, and the Media Education Foundation. It will focus on five principles, each with limitations:
Educators can, under some circumstances:
- 1. Make copies of newspaper articles, TV shows, and other copyrighted works, and use them and keep them for educational use.
- 2. Create curriculum materials and scholarship with copyrighted materials embedded.
- 3. Share, sell and distribute curriculum materials with copyrighted materials embedded.
Learners can, under some circumstances:
- 4. Use copyrighted works in creating new material
- 5. Distribute their works digitally if they meet the transformativeness standard.
As part of the project, a video has been produced to help students understand how they can use copyrighted materials. Although the full video will not be available for viewing until November 11, preview/teaser clips are online and ready for viewing.
More to come.
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