Conference Presentation Guidelines

Safest Use

Portion Limitations:

Multimedia Presentations

a. Motion Media: Up to 10% or 3 minutes of a work, whichever is less.

b. Text Material: Up to 10% or 1,000 words, whichever is less.

c. Music, Lyrics, and Music Video: Up to 10%, but no more than 30 seconds.

d. Illustrations and Photographs: No more than 5 images by an artist or photographer. When using material from a published collective work, no more than 10% or 15 images, whichever is less.

e. Numerical Data Sets: Up to 10% or 2500 fields or cell entries, whichever is less.

Digital Copies of Analog Images

a. Portion of Image: Entire images may be digitized

b. Same Artist/Photographer/Creator: Digitize no more than 5 images by an artist or photographer

c. Collective Works: When digitizing material from a published collective work, copy no more than 10% or 15 images, whichever is less.

Time Limitations:

Multimedia Presentations

• Faculty may use their educational multimedia projects for a period of up to two years after the first use at a conference or in a classroom.

• Students may use their multimedia projects at the conference, or in the class, for which they were created and in their own portfolios as examples of academic work for job/graduate school interviews

Digital Copies of Analog Images

• Images should only be digitized without first seeking permission if there is not reasonably adequate time available to obtain clearance.

• Images should not be digitized for the purpose of systematic use (repeated use by the same person or for the same purpose) without seeking permission.

Access/Distribution Limitations:

Multimedia Presentations

• There may be no more than two copies made of an educator’s multimedia project. If digital copies of a presentation are to be widely distributed or otherwise made accessible online, permission should be sought for use of included copyrighted content.

Digital Copies of Analog Images

• Faculty or students may display digitized images for the purpose of their presentation. If digital copies of a presentation are to be widely distributed or otherwise made accessible online, permission should be sought for use of digitized images.

• Digitized images should not be added to a shared image collection.

Other Limitations:

Digital Copies of Analog Images

• A copyright notice should be visibly affixed to the image.

• If a digital copy of the image already exists, and is available to purchase or license at a reasonable price, do not digitize the image.

Questionable Use

For possible uses of copyrighted materials that exceed the portion, time and access/distribution limitations outlined above, please do the following:

• Complete a Fair Use Checklist (.pdf) to determine if your use may still qualify as fair use.

• If you are still uncertain, contact the Copyright Help Desk.

Dangerous Use

Portion

Multimedia Presentations

a. Motion Media: Embedding an entire film into a presentation.

b. Text Material: Copying blocks of text that are thousands of words long from one source.

c. Music, Lyrics, and Music Video: Embedding an entire song or music video into a presentation.

d. Illustrations and Photographs: Using more than 5 images from one artist or photographer or, when using material from a published collective work, using more than 10% or 15 images.

e. Numerical Data Sets: Embedding entire data sets into a presentation.

Digital Copies of Analog Images

a. Portion of Image: Not applicable.

b. Same Artist/Photographer/Creator: Digitizing dozens of images by the same artist/photographer/creator.

c. Collective Works: Digitizing substantially more than 10% of the images from a collected work.

Time:

Multimedia Presentations

• Faculty using the same multimedia presentation for more than two or three years, without changing the copyrighted content.

• Students using their multimedia presentations after graduating for purposes other than job or graduate school portfolios.

Digital Copies of Analog Images

• Digitizing images well in advance of a need without seeking permission.

• Digitizing images for the purpose of systematic use (e.g. using them for the same course repeatedly) without seeking permission.

Access/Distribution:

• Emailing copies of a presentation to other conference attendees, or posting a digital copy of a presentation to a conference site.

• Posting a presentation on a personal website.

• Using a presentation which makes “fair use” of copyrighted materials at a paid speaking engagement.

Digital Copies of Analog Images

• Students or faculty displaying digitized images on personal websites, blogs, etc. or using such images in material submitted for publication.

• Emailing copies of images used in a presentation to other conference attendees, or posting images to a conference site.

• Adding digitized images to a shared departmental image collection without seeking permission.

Other Limitations:

Digital Copies of Analog Images

• No copyright notice is affixed to the image.

• A digital copy of the image already exists, and is available to purchase or license at a reasonable price, but it is not purchased/licensed.