Thank you, Barb and Maureen, for your thoughtful and informative responses! Maybe at some point CASL (or one of the experts among us) can run a session on the nuances of copyright law and how school libraries can be compliant, if others are interested. 

Thank you so much!
Anne

Anne Porier
School Librarian
Moses Y. Beach Elementary School
340 N. Main St.
Wallingford CT
203-294-3950
Twitter: @APorier



On Mon, Feb 17, 2020 at 9:10 AM CASL President <president@ctcasl.org> wrote:
It may fall under transformation use ...
"Additionally, “transformative” uses are more likely to be considered fair.  Transformative uses are those that add something new, with a further purpose or different character, and do not substitute for the original use of the work."
https://www.copyright.gov/fair-use/more-info.html

HelenAdams  https://blog.schoollibraryconnection.com/tag/helen-adams/ is well versed in transformational use.

If students are each writing their own story and dialogue to go with the pictures it would qualify under this use.

Barb

On Mon, Feb 17, 2020, 6:42 AM Maureen Schlosser via CASL-L <casl-l@mylist.net> wrote:
Hi, Anne!
This sounds like such a great project! What a creative way to engage learners with literature. 
I believe you can only copy 2 pictures from a picture book. Asking the publisher is a great idea. If you don’t hear back from them, I wonder if you could record their stories in a different way?
What about recording learners telling their stories and sharing their recordings with a QR code taped to the book? The recording could include a chime to indicate a page turn. 

One year, second graders developed stories for the wordless book, The Lion and the Mouse. They used an app to make a picture of the lion and the mouse talk. I believe the app was Funny Movie Maker, but I bet there are plenty others to choose from.
 
Learners could also copy the characters and make stick puppets out of them. They could design a background and tell their stories with the puppets. 

Good luck!


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On Sunday, February 16, 2020, 8:35 PM, Porier, Anne <aporier@wallingfordschools.org> wrote:

Dear CASL community, 

I am working on a project in which students make a short video using some of the pages of a wordless book and write their own narration. Students will take pictures of the illustrations for which they write the text. They will use 6-8 pages of the book in total. Do we need to contact the illustrator/ publisher to get permission to use the illustrations? 

Thank you,

Anne Porier
School Librarian
Moses Y. Beach Elementary School
340 N. Main St.
Wallingford CT
Twitter: @APorier

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