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Code of best practices in fair use for media literacy education

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posted on 2023-08-07, 09:31 authored by Patricia AufderheidePatricia Aufderheide, Peter Jaszi, Renee Hobbs

This document is a code of best practices that helps educators using media literacy concepts and techniques to interpret the copyright doctrine of fair use.

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American University (Washington, D.C.). Center for Social Media

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English

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This guide identifies five principles that represent the media literacy education community’s current consensus about acceptable practices for the fair use of copyrighted materials, wherever and however it occurs: in K–12 education, in higher education, in nonprofit organizations that offer programs for children and youth, and in adult education. This code of best practices was created by convening ten meetings with more than 150 members of leading educational associations, including signatories to this document, and other educators across the United States. The process was coordinated by Profs. Renee Hobbs (Media Education Lab, Temple University), Peter Jaszi (Program on Information Justice and Intellectual Property, Washington College of Law, American University) and Patricia Aufderheide (Center for Social Media, American University). The code was reviewed by a committee of legal scholars and lawyers expert in copyright and fair use. Center for Social Media, American University; Media Education Lab, Temple University.

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http://hdl.handle.net/1961/socialmediapubs:4

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