Teaching Ideas
Contributory Infringement
One form of copyright violation is contributory infringement,
where knowingly linking to or hosting material that violates
copyright laws is in itself a violation.
- Put students into groups and have them develop a process
for determining if the material on educational web sites
is copyrighted or if the web sites make proper use of someone
else's copyrighted material.
- Have them review 5 web sites for copyright adherence.
- Discuss their findings and the lessons they learned about
copyright.
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