Copyright and Youtube Delemia

Why is it alright to do these on YouTube
Sing a copyrighted song
Dance copyrighted choreography
Dance copyrighted choreography that one made minor changes to without it being plagiarism

But it is not alright to read a book on YouTube. 

Paper outline

Intro: Laws and what K-12 instructors can do.

Public Domai vs Under Copyright

         Digital text (posting scanned pages of published texts, 

         Audio text

Digital Literacy project Information list

Digital Literacy Final Project List:

How can schools best use audio text files and ebooks in their classrooms?

Digital Audio files of text and Digital Texts

Copywriter information

“EDUCATIONAL EXEMPTION” Find and READ!

            Who can access what without it being a copyright violation

“Educational Exemption” and a class website

Digital Libraries and Digital books as part of a library’s collection

Libraries using audio files, check out an audio file regulations.

Digital texts

Gutenberg

Amazon, Google (search part of books “Look inside” feature)

Google books (whole books)

E-readers (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_e-book_readers)

Non-e-reader texts

Gutenberg(Free and Legal)
Galenet (library subscription)

Digital Audio files of text

Separate actual sites from middle men

Audible.com

LibriVox (Free and legal)

I-tunes

Audiobooksforfree.com

Freeclassicaudiobooks.com

http://amblingbooks.com/

Converting Youtube audios to MP3 (Free and legal?)