AMICO K-12 licenses
Base: Rights Committee
Re: ## AMICO K-12 and Public Library Licenses (J. Trant and D. Bearman)
Date: Mon, 04 Jan 1999 16:48:38 GMT
From: Rachel M. Allen, NMAA <rallen@nmaa.si.edu>

You asked for comments about licenses to schools and public libraries. One service that IUPUI could provide would be to develop tutorials about copyright and image usage. The tutorials should be designed for both teachers and students. According to staff in our museum's distance learning programs, teachers do not have background to instruct their students about basic copyright issues. Obviously, this should not be developed in the abstract, but with the purpose of helping both teachers and students be responsible users of the AMICO database. If age-appropriate copyright tutorials were available, then I believe we could require AMICO users to present this material in the classroom as a condition of use of the AMICO database.

For the schools, I don't see the terms and conditions of use being much different from the university license. In other words, classroom and student assignments are appropriate, but publication, commercial use, redistribution, fundraising, etc. are not. This underscores the importance of the copyright training, as I'm not sure that the teachers will have the same sensitivities to these issues as you might expect in the university environment.


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