Educational Technology and Copyright Law

• Copyright is a federal law that protects any original literary, written, artistic, or any other type of work.
• All original work is copyrighted immediately.
• You do not need any paperwork to copyright something.
• Using copyrighted works for criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, or research is not an infringement of copyright. It's fair use.
• In classroom projects it is okay to use an image from the internet.