Copyright and Online Reference Databases, K-12

This article summarizes the specific copying and usage guidelines for the online databases were purchased for schools in the Heartland AEA service area. The licenses have specific copying and usage guidelines. Ask the school teacher librarian for assistance and the school user ID or password. Access at
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AccuNet/AP Multimedia Archive
• Can print copies of images for reports, term papers, theses, class handouts, and research.
• Can use images in multimedia presentations, overhead transparencies, and slide shows.
• Can’t use images to publish in newspapers, magazines, brochures, catalogs, commercial announcements, calendars, posters, yearbooks, playbills, newsletters, t-shirts, promotional items, or for commercial use or gain of any kind.

American History in Video
• Can clip videos to any length.
• Can use videos and images of videos in any type of external software (Word, PowerPoint, Blackboard, etc.)
• Can put any video clip or full video in a personal playlist, annotate it, and pull in additional content from the Web. Playlists can be made public, shared with just your school,
or kept private.
• Can’t post/reuse videos on the Internet without giving full credit to the original publisher and Alexander Street Press.
• Can’t decompile or reverse engineer the videos; modify or create a derivative work; remove, obscure, or modify copyright notices; sell, distribute, or commercially exploit the videos.
• Authorized Users are the school’s currently enrolled students, employees, faculty, staff, affiliated researchers, distance learners, and visiting scholars.

Atomic Learning
• Can’t copy, download, store, publish, transmit, transfer, or sell any information on the Web site.

BookFLIX
• Can’t copy or re-distribute content.

iCLIPART for Schools
• Can download unlimited images, photos, and Web art images for educational use.
• Can use in projects such as Web sites, presentations, newsletters, brochures, advertisements, announcements, labels, e-greetings, Web templates, vinyl cutting, routing, engraving, t-shirts, school projects, screen printing, and mechanical embroidery. Contact iCLIPART if for a commercial use.
• Can’t give to a third party, share content across a network or on a CD, add to a “print-on-demand” Web site, or use in any commercial project or product.

DE Streaming and DE Science K-8
• Can edit some videos.
• Can use images in multimedia, print, or broadcast (closed-circuit or cable television).
• Can keep projects with video clips in their personal portfolios.
• Can maintain proprietary notices (i.e. watermarks, producer information) and cite Discovery Education in references.
• Can’t post on the Internet.
• Can’t convert digital video to analog.

EBSCO Databases
• Can download, print, e-mail limited copies for personal, non-commercial use.
• Can’t re-publish the information.
• Can’t download in a systematic or regular manner so as to create a collection of materials (print or nonprint).

LEARN360
• Can edit videos marked with the EDIT icon. This includes converting them to different formats or clipping.
• Can download and use the educational resources inside their school building, including print, video, images and audio files.
• Can store all Learn360 materials on school computers.
• Can’t post any content to the Internet.
• Users must cite Learn360 using citations.

netTrekker
• Can’t duplicate, publish, modify, or otherwise distribute the material.
• Can’t frame any of the Web pages.

SIRS Researcher
• Can make printouts (online, offline, fax, e-mail) for school or personal use.

Soundzabound
• Can use music files for video production; video yearbooks; podcasting; broadcasting (including cable, closed circuit, distance learning, YouTube, TeacherTube); PowerPoint; Web design; digital storytelling; sporting events; media and technology fairs, competitions, and exhibits; plays and theater; public performance and ambient listening; and other classroom multimedia uses.

TeachingBooks.net
• Can download Author Name Pronunciation files and use them in educational podcasts, videos, and PowerPoints.
• Can download and reproduce In-depth Written Interviews PDF files for educational, non-commercial purposes.
• Can print the novel units and discussion guides from the Book Guide section for educational, non-commercial use.
• Can play Original TeachingBooks Author Program videos in classrooms, libraries, or other performance locations.
• Can’t download, save, or play Original
Author Program videos or Book Reading
audio files off any machine other than TeachingBooks.net server.

Teen Health & Wellness
• Can download, print, e-mail limited copies for personal, non-commercial use.
• Can use information in PowerPoint or similar presentation.
• Can link to the homepage or article pages.
• Can’t re-publish the information.
• Can’t download in a systematic or regular manner so as to create collection of materials (print or nonprint).
• When information is put in your own words, permission is not needed.
• Use the proper citation form and keep/display the author, image, or photo information.

World Book Web
• When information is put in your own words, permission is not needed.
• Use the proper citation form and keep/display the author, image, or photo information.
• Can use information in PowerPoint or similar presentation.
• Can link to the homepage. No deep linking without permission.