Summary based on Welsey Fryer's Copyright 101 for Educators: Winter 2003

The article Copyright 101 for Educators: Winter 2003 is primarily about the responsibility of educators to ethically and legally utilize sources (whether they be electronic or not) under the US Copyright Law and the TEACH Act. It is suggested that educators create all presentations from scratch and if you wish to use copyright material, you must first be granted the permissions. These precautions are the only definite way to not overstep the Copyright Law without a judge’s verdict otherwise. Students and educators must also remember that Copyright Laws are in place to protect the originality of a creator’s work, not to enhance the profits of corporations.
The Fair Use Guidelines for Educational Multimedia was also mentioned by Wesley Fryer. This writing suggested that works be cited, and that the amount of the work used can determine if the copyright is being violated or not (it is noted that citing is not legally related to the “fair use” concept in the Copyright Law). This information is followed by a short list of what legally is deemed “fair use”, and how this relates to the TEACH Act, which sets specific guidelines for copyright material uses. Above all the concept of the work was to help teachers to understand that it is their duty to first educate themselves and then their students about the regulations revolving and pertaining to the Copyright Law.