Acknowledgements

The Fair Use Guidelines dictate that whenever you use any borrowed resource (e.g., a digital image, a file, a Flash movie, text from a book), you must always clearly credit the source. Crediting the source means:

1) Adequately identifying the source of the work, giving a full bibliographic description where available (including the creator/author, title, publisher, and place and date of publication) or citing the electronic address if the work is from an online source;

AND

2) Retaining any copyright notice or other proprietary rights notice placed by the copyright owner, unless you know that the work has entered the public domain or that the copyright ownership has changed.

In those cases when source credits and copyright ownership information cannot be displayed on the screen with the image for educational reasons (e.g., during examinations), this information should still be linked to the image.

In addition, educators and students must include on the opening screen of their multimedia program (and any accompanying print material) a notice that certain materials are included under the fair use exemption of the U.S. Copyright Law and have been prepared according to the multimedia fair use guidelines and are restricted from further use.

Note: Keep in mind that although the Fair Use Guidelines do not apply if a resource is in the public domain, there are still academic restrictions on borrowed works. It is never acceptable to use a resource in such a way that it appears to be of your own creation. (For example, Shakespeare is in the public domain, but it would still constitute plagiarism if you take an excerpt from one of his plays and incorporate it into your own work without crediting him.)

For the Bloomsburg University policy on academic integrity, see: