Student Guidelines
Students may incorporate portions of copyrighted materials when producing a project for a specific course.
Students may perform and display their own projects and use them in their portfolio or use the project for job interviews or as supporting materials for application to graduate school.
Faculty Guidelines
Faculty may include portions of copyrighted works when producing their own multimedia project for their teaching in support of curriculum-based instructional activities at educational institutions.
Faculty may use their project for:
assignments for student self-study
for remote instruction provided the network is secure and is designed to prevent unlawful copying
for conferences, presentations, or workshops
for their professional portfolio
Time Restrictions
The fair use of copyrighted material in multimedia projects lasts for two years only. After two years, obtain permission before using the project again.
Types of media and permissible amounts
Motion media:
Up to 10 percent of the total or three minutes, whichever is less.
Text material:
Up to 10 percent of the total or 1,000 words, whichever is less.
An entire poem of less than 250 words may be used, but no more than three poems by one poet or five poems by different authors in an anthology. For poems exceeding 250 words, 250 words should be used but no more than three excerpts from one poet or five excerpts from different poets in the same work
Music, lyrics, and music video:
up to 10 percent of the work but no more than 30 seconds of the music or lyrics from an individual musical work.
Illustrations or photographs:
no more than five images from one artist or photographer.
no more than 10% or 15 images, whichever is less, from a collection.
Numerical data sets:
up to 10 percent or 2,500 fields or cell entries, whichever is less, from a copyrighted database or data table.
Copying of a multimedia project:
no more than two copies may be made of a project.
When Should You Get Permission?
When you intend to use the project for commercial or noneducational purposes.
When you intend to duplicate the project beyond the two copies allowed by the guidelines.
When you plan to distribute the project beyond the scope of the guidelines.
www.umuc.edu/library/copy.shtml#getpermit
