She urges districts to adopt written copyright policies and to designate an administrator to educate the staff and monitor compliance. There are times when bureaucracy makes sense. This is one of them. Fair use generally allows students and teachers to copy web-site material for use in their classrooms. Tell them how you're using it.
Companies are more than willing to give permission.
In addition to seeking permission, users need to cite the source of the information on their web sites, just as they would include footnotes in a research paper. And finally, if a school or a district wants to put a student's work on a web page, it needs to get permission from the student and his or her parents, if the student is under 18. Whether it's a multimillion dollar movie or a kindergartner's drawing of a cow, it's protected by copyright. Ethical, moral, legal Schrock and Valenza know what it's like to have their work copied illegally. Both librarians operate extensive web sites devoted to school technology issues, and both have seen portions of their sites appear on others' web pages.