Now copyright is the first thing we get asked about when we attend conferences or workshops for teachers promoting digital literacies.There is a section within copyright law dealing with education called “fair dealing”, This allows limited use of copyright material for the purpose of research and study without the need to get permission of the copyright owner. In other words, copyrighted material can be used by students and schools without the permission of the owner under certain conditions!Unfortunately, when written, the law was intended to deal with mainly written texts and not with a mash up of digital work all mixed together!So in reality, it is best to avoid putting any copyrighted material into a student’s video or audio tracks – this could be all or part of an image, sound effect, music or movie that has been copyrighted. If you publish the material online through the World Wide Web on this website you are subjected to all of the copyright rules.  Please NoteWithin classnet there is the ability to publish only to your school or community group. If you are not sure that there is copyrighted material embedded within a video or audio track or if you not sure that copyrighted material embedded is subject to “fair dealing” then it is better to have this work not published to the World Wide Web.Just publish it through your school or community group instead! For more information on copyright see supporting material below