Rights

Rights: -When creating or publishing anything digitally, students have the same copyright protection as any other content creators.

One of the acts regarding the rights and privacy of student work online is the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA). This act regards sites that host information and materials from individuals under the age of thirteen years old. More information about COPPA can be found [|here].

Another act that is used in schools to secure the privacy of student work in the schools is the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA). This act forbids the information and works of individuals in an educational setting. Individuals who are not the student in question don't have the right to view the works of that student without their expressed written consent. (Talab, 2007)

-Teach the students about current copyright laws and how their created content can be shared and protected.

According to a second article, some schools try to get around copyright laws by stating that the school owns the work of the student. Current laws currently state that the creator of the work owns the copyright. It is a means by the schools to avoid copyright law using the argument that students are "working" for the school when they do assignments, however that is not the case. It is suggested that if a school is interested in using the works of current students in the future, that they contact the student and get the permission before they leave the school.

One example of student work being used by a third party was looked at with a plagiarism avoidance site, Turnitin.com. A group of students uploaded the work to the site but never examined the terms of agreement section. The case went in the favor of the company because it simply uploaded the works, it never modified, judged, or reviewed. They were compiled into a database (Carrie, 2009)

In short, urge students to read the terms of agreement to see for what their information and files can and cannot be used.

The following is a video that discusses copyright law in a fun and entertaining way: [|A Fair(y) Use Tale (NOT a Disney Movie)]

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