What is considered fair-use of multimedia in projects?
There are limitations on time and the amount of copyrighted material that can be incorporated into educational multimedia projects, used without permission. Developers should credit all sources and consult the Fair Use Guidelines for Educational Multimedia established by the Congress of the United States (1996). In brief, this document indicates the following (section 4.2): • Motion media: up to 10% or 3 minutes, whichever is less, in the aggregate. • Text: up to 10% or 1000 words, whichever is less, in the aggregate. • Music, Lyrics, and Music Video: Up to 10%, but in no event more than 30 seconds, of the music and lyrics from an individual musical work (or in the aggregate of extracts from an individual work). • Illustrations and Photographs: No more than 5 images by an artist or photographer; No more than 10% or 15 images, whichever is less, from a published collective work. • Numerical data sets: Up to 10% or 2500 fields or cell entries, whichever is less, from a copyrighted databa
