A lively video that focuses on the Fair Use aspect of copyright. From the Media Education Lab at Temple University. Lesson plans and teaching activities also available. 3:11 minutes
Created by the Media Lab at Temple University this musical video talks about balancing the rights of copyright owners with copyright users. 3:41 minutes.
This 6 minute video shows a lesson for grades 9-12 that examines what copyright is and how it applies to student lives. Subscription to the Teaching Channel needed.
Developed by MIT Libraries this 10-minute tutorial uses the acronym PANE to identify the four Fair Use factors (Purpose, Amount, Nature and Effect on market). It provides some examples of how to think about these factors.
Professor Eric Faden of Bucknell University created this humorous, yet informative, review of copyright principles delivered through the words of Disney that has sponsored the extension of copyright terms. 10 minutes.
In this 2010 TED talk Margaret Gould Stewart from YouTube discusses how the content ID system used by YouTube identifies copyrighted content. She points out how liberal usage policies by copyright holders can encourage creativity. 5 minutes.
In this 2007 TED talk lawyer Larry Lessig discusses how current copyright law is "strangling creativity." In this 20 minute video Lessig's talk points to the need for Creative Commons.
Using interviews with developers of Creative Commons interspersed with art, photos, music and other work available through Creative Commons this three minute video focuses on how Creative Commons can encourage more creativity.
A six-minute video that presents a lesson for grades 6 to 8 that explores copyright vocabulary, the concept of fair use and using evidence to support an argument. A subscription to the Teaching Channel is required.