Are you confused: copyright and fair use.

Who doesn't use texts that include audio, video, and digital materials? How should we teach our students to use media legally? Do we ourselves demonstrate the appropriate way of including pictures and YouTube movies into our presentation?

Copyright and fair use are serious topics that we, the 21st century educators, want to understand and explain our students. To know what exactly is happening in this area is the task of librarians. We need to clearly understand what copyright and fair use are because in other way we are no help to the teachers, we cannot show students how to deal with the media properly, we don't want to share our works or come up with our own rules that are much more strict than the real ones and again, we limit our productiveness and effectiveness.

Renee Hobbs (School of Communications and Theater Temple University) clarifies on fair use and copyright issues:

• Copyright Clarity: How Fair Use Supports Digital Learning
• Code of Best Practices in Fair Use for Media Literacy Education
• Copyright Clarity: How Fair Use Supports Digital Learning