Two of our 4-H members are doing a Working Exhibit using a activity from the ZOOM website. Can they use the activity and can they hand out directions to the activity?
A. In order, Yes and No. ZOOM is a popular TV show and website that has several excellent activities for young children. Many of these adapt themselves very well to 4-H work in a variety of project areas. There are no copyright issues if the members are demonstrating and teaching the activity as part of a Working Exhibit. The members should give credit to the source of their idea or inspiration one of their posters. However, ZOOM explicitly prohibits distribution of materials found on their web site. So no, members may not hand out copies of directions obtained from a ZOOM web page. The members may, and are encouraged to, hand out copies of a paper which give the name of the activity, the source, and the web page so they could obtain the directions themselves. Alternatively, members could contact the person who submitted the activity to ZOOM and ask that person for permission to distribute. Another option is to attempt to find a similar activity from another source that would allow dis
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