Course: Tips for Online Instructors

Copyright Facts

Fair Use
Fair Use
Fair Use is a right to use materials generally without restrictions for the "greater good," including what you can use for instruction. The main difference when it comes to copyright between the IGEN Career Pathways course you develop and your own classes is that the grant content will be made available or distributed to the public. This means that you no longer have the protection of Fair Use. The video below clarifies the limitations of Fair Use.

video by KOCETV, Standard YouTube License

How can I use NTER in a Fair Use instance?

There are two places you can use copyrighted materials that you have legitimately acquired: in Announcements and Live Seminars. These are private, instructor-to-student instances as granted by Fair Use. For example, you could link to materials from your school website within an announcement or show a presentation in a Live Seminar that included copyrighted images. For best practices, you should also cite the source of these materials.

See also Copyright for Educators for more information.