Multimedia+Copyright+Guidelines

Technology has made it very simple to find and use materials for multimedia projects. The problem is if you don't own those materials you find on the web, on a cd, or in a movie you don't have the RIGHT to use them. Students are allowed some leeway (FAIR USE) to sample portions of these materials but there are guidelines. In all cases attribution (for students this means CITATION) must be included in their projects. This means both in text (photo caption for example) and in works cited format. For more info on copyright and fair use see[| here].

Types of media and permissible amounts

 * Motion media:
 * Up to 10 percent of the total or three minutes, whichever is less.
 * Text material:
 * Up to 10 percent of the total or 1,000 words, whichever is less.
 * An entire poem of less than 250 words may be used, but no more than three poems by one poet or five poems by different authors in an anthology. For poems exceeding 250 words, 250 words should be used but no more than three excerpts from one poet or five excerpts from different poets in the same work
 * Music, lyrics, and music video:
 * up to 10 percent of the work but no more than 30 seconds of the music or lyrics from an individual musical work.
 * Illustrations or photographs:
 * no more than five images from one artist or photographer.
 * no more than 10% or 15 images, whichever is less, from a collection.
 * Numerical data sets:
 * up to 10 percent or 2,500 fields or cell entries, whichever is less, from a copyrighted database or data table.
 * Copying of a multimedia project:
 * no more than two copies may be made of a project.