This is a French culture project for students to use guidelines that involve copyright, fair use and transformative materials along with Creative Commons.

1. Copyright and
Research Project
fançais II
Mme Frey

2. Project
You will be creating a French culture project
including food, fashion, family life, traditions,
monuments, symbols, fameous people,
Francophone countries, traditional folk songs
or anything that interests you.

3. Guidelines
*You will need to pay close attention to
issues regarding copyright
*You will complete the project using a web
tool of your choice; i.e., emaze, slideshare,
brainstorm, flipsnack, prezi and so on

4. Getting Started
*Before we begin there are a few things you
need to know about copyright laws, fair use
and how to use material you find

5. What is Fair Use
*Fair Use is an evaluation system that allows
you to use parts of copyrighted material for
educational purposes

6. How do we know if something is Fair Use?
Ask yourself…

7. A. What is the purpose of the material?
Acceptable uses include teaching, research and scholarly
purposes
B. What is the nature of the work?
Creative work such as art, music, and literature highly favor
asking permission to use
C. How much of the work is being used?
Small portions of a work in general is ok to use. There are
guidelines though this can be vague
D. What is the effect on the market?
If it’s for profit then you cannot use

8. Copyright and Transformation
Fair Use encourages the use of copyrighted
material in a transformative manner
This means as long as you change or add
value to the material you are permitted to
use

9. More about Copyright and Transformation
Has it added value? Has it been repurposed?
Example
1. Adding a famous quote or saying to an image in
your project
2. Adding music to a presentation in a slide
transition

10. What is Creative Commons?
Creative Commons is a non-profit organization that
allows the creativity and sharing of free legal
material through licensed tools. Creative Commons
works to increase creativity for cultural and
educational content. It is available to the public for
repurposing and remixing material
See https://search.creativecommons.org

11. Citing your material
When you use material that is not yours you need to cite
your material.
Example of MLA Web Sources
Last name, First name. "Article Title." Website Title. Publisher of Website, Day
Month Year article was published. Web. Day Month Year article was accessed.
<URL>.
For more examples on how to cite see
https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/747/08/
For the MLA citation generator see
http://www.easybib.com/reference/guide/mla/website