UT Snapshot: Bienvenue sur la chaine YouTube!
In her online course, Introduction to French, Karen Kelton Links to an external site. (French & Italian Links to an external site.) curates a few educational YouTube videos in French to help her students practice listening and comprehension skills. When she uses the videos, she contextualizes them with discussion questions that students must answer for credit.
The videos Karen use from YouTube have a Standard YouTube License, which is different that Creative Commons (copyright licenses that enable the free distribution of an otherwise copyrighted work). “Standard YouTube License” is the default setting for all video uploader. Karen's use of the material is protected under Fair Use. (Links to an external site.) Links to an external site.
According to our legal friends over at FairUseTube (Links to an external site.) Links to an external site.:
On YouTube, the key things to consider is if your video is transformative (i.e. you modified the source material in some way or did something to give it a different meaning or message), whether it is noncommercial (you aren't making money from it), and whether it competes with the market for the original work (i.e. someone could watch your video and get the same benefit as buying it). The Center for Social Media (Links to an external site.) Links to an external site. publishes an excellent Code of Best Practices in Fair Use for Online Video (Links to an external site.) Links to an external site., which lists the following six uses as being probable fair use:
- Commenting on or critiquing of copyrighted material
- Using copyright material for illustration or example
- Capturing copyrighted material incidentally or accidentally
- Reproducing, reposting, or quoting in order to memorialize, preserve, or rescue an experience, an event, or a cultural phenomenon
- Copying, reposting, and recirculating a work or part of a work for purposes of launching a discussion
- Quoting in order to recombine elements to make a new work that depends for its meaning on (often unlikely) relationships between the elements
University of Texas Libraries offers a Copyright Crash Course (Links to an external site.) Links to an external site.with helpful information for you as you consider curating material for your online course.
"How Have UT Instructors Curated or Created Online Content?"