The Educator's Guide to Copyright and Fair Use

Learn what your rights are when it comes to issues of copyright and then take the copyright quiz to test your knowledge. 

Print Ready Chart for Educators
Web Ready Chart for Educators

Fair Use for Educators

Understanding the Limitations

Fair Use of Copyrighted Materials

The Four Factors of Fair Use

The purpose and character of the use, including whether such use is of commercial nature or is for nonprofit educational purposes.

The nature of the copyrighted work.

The amount and substantiality of the portion used in relationship to the copyrighted work as a whole.

The effect of the use upon the potential market for or value of the copyrighted work.

Copyright Guidelines from iVie

Outstanding links to all the resources you need to understand copyright issues is available at the SDCOE site for the iVIE awards.

Copyright your site

The following is the format that should be used to copyright your intellectual materials.

© 2002 John Doe

 Edited on: 11/13/2007 by Linda Foote
Edited on: 5/12/2005 by Stacey Campo
Instructional Curriculum Specialists
Poway Unified School District 
lfoote@powayusd.com; scampo@powayusd.com;
©June 2002