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**MR. FANTOZZI'S ITALIAN CINEMA CLASS**

Mr. Fantozzi is teaching an Italian cinema class at a local university. The final project requires students to create and podcast a movie trailer of their favorite Italian film among the many reviewed during the semester. Students will use the computers and movies available at the language media center. They will employ video authoring software and Windows Movie Maker to extract their favorite scenes from the selected movie as individual video files and record a commentary in Italian over the scenes. The final videos will be podcasted through the media center podcast until the day of the final exam. Mr. Fantozzi aims to engage learners in a multimedia exercise that enhances creativity and collective learning. Also he wishes to provide students supplementary review material for the final test, which will include short essays about the movies. Mr. Fantozzi has requested that students acknowledge the use of copyrighted material and include credits to the sources. He has instructed students to not download the videos, but rather simply watch them online using iTunes. Additionally, because the media center podcast is password protected and not searchable through iTunes, Mr. Fantozzi has shared with students the direct link and password to subscribe to the feed in iTunes. He still worries, however, that extracting and using movie scenes in students’ projects available online might be violating copyright laws, especially considering the heavy regulations protecting todays motion pictures. ** COMMENTARY: **

The integration of motion media into education is, however, permitted under the Fair Use doctrine. The guidelines for Fair Use and Educational Multimedia enlist the specific parameters, which the project proposed by Mr. Fantozzi seems to be in line with. The educational nature of the exercise validates the applicability of Fair Use, which allows students to incorporate portions of lawfully acquired copyrighted movies into educational projects. Mr. Fantozzi’s students are only extracting a few scenes from films, which are in any case legally owned by the language media center. They comply, therefore, also with guideline 4.2.1, which regulates portion limitations. Mr. Fantozzi requirements for the project additionally address guidelines 6.2 and 6.3 regarding source citation and use restrictions, and they take into consideration the copying and distribution limitations as well. Similarly, by password protecting the podcast, Mr. Fantozzi meets the terms indicated by guideline 3.2.3, which mandates that multimedia educational projects containing portions of motion media can only be provided through secure school networks with limitations on access.