Fair Use in Instruction

Fair Use in Instruction

The TEACH Act

Copyright law provides educators with a separate set of rights in addition to fair use, to display (show) and perform (show or play) others' works in the classroom and it applies to any work, but these provisions did not help distance education much until the TEACH Act passed in 2002. Before this law passed, Fair Use did not apply to classes conducted through distance learning. The TEACH Act helped extend the same tools to distance education. 

The provisions of both of these allows teachers to use good, up to date resources, research, movies and publications in the classroom in order to provide a meaningful classroom experience. Without this, teachers would be forced to self-create the majority of their materials, which would prove to be both time and cost prohibitive. 

My advice: Why reinvent the wheel when it is not necessary??