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Guiding Principles
- Respect Copyright
- Respect YouTube Terms of Service
- Respect Your Audience
- Respect Parental Permissions and Student Privacy
Respect Copyright
Fair Use allows for limited amounts of copyrighted materials to be used for educational purposes and the Digital Millenium Copyright Act (1998) limits Internet service providers from copyright infringement liability for simply transmitting information over the Internet. As a teacher accessing videos on YouTube, there are no copyright infringements if you follow YouTube TOS. The following sites provide helpful information on copyright and Fair Use:
- MENC - Copyright Law: What Music Teachers Need to Know: http://musiced.nafme.org/resources/copyright-center/copyright-law-what-music-teachers-need-to-know/
- Copyright Website - Fair Use: http://www.benedict.com/Info/FairUse/FairUse.aspx
- Fair Use Visualizer for YouTube: http://www.benedict.com/Info/FairUse/Visualizer/YouTubeVisualizer.aspx
Respect YouTube Terms of Service - Overview
- Do not distribute or access YouTube content except through means that YouTube makes available. Translation: don't download YouTube videos unless there's a download link on the YouTube page or you have permission from the copyright holder.
- "YouTube is not responsible for the accuracy, usefulness, safety, or intellectual property rights of or relating to such Content." Translation: You're on your own so watch out.
- If a video is a blatant infringement of copyright, YouTube will take it down. YouTube will also remove videos (Take Down Notice) upon the request of the copyright owner. Three strikes and you're out - your account will be closed.
- Uploading content to YouTube means that you give them permission to use, reproduce, distribute, prepare derivative works of, display, and perform the content - you retain ownership.
- You agree that any content you submit will not contain any third party copyrighted material.
- If you are under 13 do not use the service. Registered users must be 18 or older.
- Details may be found on YouTube's Terms of Service webpage: http://www.youtube.com/t/terms.
Respect Your Audience
- Select content that suits curricular goals and is of sufficiently high quality to provide useful information to your students. Videos with poor audio or video quality will have only limited usefulness and bad videography (camera angles, image stability, etc.) will be a distraction.
- Don't take class time to search for videos - you never know what you'll find and it's not a good use of instructional time.
- Consider NOT having students search YouTube themselves - many hazards.
- Embedding videos and providing SafeShare.TV links are great ways to avoid exposing students to inappropriate content.
Respect Parental Permissions and Student Privacy
- Make sure that you follow district guidelines for placing student images and content online.
- Ensure that only those students with parental permission have work/images posted online.
- NEVER post personal information about your students. Students should, at all times, remain anonymous. For example, names should not accompany visual images.