pooh Posted March 30, 2020 Posted March 30, 2020 Hi, can anyone help please? Due to the latest situation where schools are closed we have been keeping in contact with parents / children via closed class Facebook pages, staff have been videoing live lessons, adding links to resources and some have been reading stories. A parent has contacted about reading stories being against copyright. I have seen some schools withnstories posted on school website which are open to everyone but these are closed pages but I am unsure. Have been looking into things on the copyright site etc but contact with people is slow at the moment. I wondered if anyone else has come across similar. Thanks Quote
BenTapestrySupport Posted March 30, 2020 Posted March 30, 2020 It's a tricky one I think! As it's a closed group I'm sure it would be ok, and it's being used in an educational way, so you should be covered by it that way. I know we looked into it about uploading to Tapestry and found that again, as it is a closed system, used for educational purposes, copyright laws allow you to use it. If someone was to make a copy and upload it though, there might be an issue, but in that situation, you're not the data owner as you haven't uploaded it, so would be covered again. I'm not sure many authors / publisher would be prepared to go after educators sharing their books at the moment either! Quote
pooh Posted March 30, 2020 Author Posted March 30, 2020 Thanks Ben, really useful as we are also using Tapestry for our Reception classes and have asked about that too via Tapestry. 1 Quote
finleysmaid Posted March 30, 2020 Posted March 30, 2020 I have also been told that giving them credit (IE telling who the author and illustrator are) is supposed to support this idea of publicly reading books. Though this may be erroneous! 1 Quote
BenTapestrySupport Posted March 30, 2020 Posted March 30, 2020 Certainly no harm in crediting them. Good for the children to know too and directs them to maybe look into more from that author/illustrator. 1 Quote
finleysmaid Posted March 30, 2020 Posted March 30, 2020 if you are really concerned Pooh there are lots of authors who have announced that you may use their books and stories copyright free for a period of time. Google it..i'm sure you will find lots of links there! 1 Quote
pooh Posted March 30, 2020 Author Posted March 30, 2020 Thanks to you both, yes gradually finding different things. Such a lot of varied avenues to explore at the moment! 1 Quote
sunnyday Posted March 30, 2020 Posted March 30, 2020 My lovely Godson (teacher) is currently appearing in youtube videos reading stories...... 2 Quote
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