Posted by Rosemary Grantham on Oct 28, 2015; 11:50pm
URL: https://nabble.aealearningonline.org/POST-4-Copyright-tp535p543.html

Copyright is something I usually worry most about when my students are doing web-based projects.  Most of the copying I do is "for classroom use" so the Fair Use section was reassuring. I'm not always sure how to explain it to students but I do feel I have a better handle on that after reviewing what. Again, by convincing students that the AEA Online sources can be used easily without worrying about copyright infringement, we can all concentrate on making the science content accurate and not on if the picture they pasted into a project violates copyright laws.  I can introduce students to soundzabound for background music, iClipArt for pictures and prove to them that it’s more efficient and legal than searching the whole web.

Especially in citing research, AEA Online really does a lot of the work for them so I need to show my students that.  If works need to be cited, the information is there for them.  While this generally falls to the ELA teacher to emphasize, the more times the students see and hear procedure for working with copyrighted material, the less likely they are to do it wrong and get into trouble in the future.