Faculty

You’ve got a bunch of great visuals that will help your students understand the concepts in your course. How can you make sure you can use them, while respecting copyright?

It depends on the source of the image. We’ll cover one of the most common topics we receive questions about: reusing images found online. For example, if you wanted to use the Plains Zebra infographic available on the PBS Nature site, Infographic: All About the Plains Zebra in a slide deck in Zoology 100, and upload a copy of it to the LEARN space for the course. One way you could use this image would be under the Work available through the Internet exception in Copyright Act – this exception allows you to copy an entire work as long as you meet a set of five requirements:

There’s a film that you want to show your students – how do you go about doing this while respecting copyright?

It depends on the source of the video, and how you want to show it. The Copyright Decision Tool can help you work through this. Below are a couple of examples of ways to make lawful use of film in the classroom.