I learned from this chapter that you have options other than fair use. I thought that your only option as an educator was to find something in the public domain or make sure that it is under fair use. I know now that you have four options, homegrown, public domain, creative commons, and fair use, Harry Potter can fly! If you create it, it is in the public domain (such as NASA images), if media is shared up-front under creative commons, or if something is used for educational purposes under fair use, then you are protected from violating copyright. This is important to my future classroom because I do not want me, my students, or the school I am representing to be sued.
I hope to handle the protection of intellectual property in my future classroom by requiring that students include a bibliography that is thorough and complete for the information that they researched, as well as having them in text citations for specific information they include in their papers that they found in their research. I will also protect anything they create that they upload to the internet by having them put "all rights reserved," or "usable with permission" on their original work. I know my students will put a lot of hard work into what they do, and they should be given credit for it if another person wishes to share it.
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