<div dir="ltr">Nope...this is still a copyright violation. Because it is being painted on a wall in a school, it is "Public Use." I don't have my handy-dandy <i>School Library Guide to Copyright </i>book nearby (because we are enjoying a snow day!), but here is what Legal Zoom has to say: <a href="https://info.legalzoom.com/can-students-draw-cartoon-character-copyrighted-22565.html">https://info.legalzoom.com/can-students-draw-cartoon-character-copyrighted-22565.html</a><div><br></div><div>If a photo of your mural was on the internet and an artist saw it, he/she could take legal action. We like to think that this wouldn't happen...but it does.  My students recently discussed this case: <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2020/02/04/us/lion-king-elementary-school-250-trnd/index.html">https://www.cnn.com/2020/02/04/us/lion-king-elementary-school-250-trnd/index.html</a> when we were talking about copyright. </div><div><br></div><div>Encourage your artists to let their imaginations fly!  </div><div><br></div><div>Michelle Harris</div><div>Heyworth</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, Feb 13, 2020 at 2:49 PM Pantle, Holly via AISLE <<a href="mailto:aisle@list.railslibraries.info">aisle@list.railslibraries.info</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">





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<p class="MsoNormal">My students are creating artwork for the library. Two of the student groups want to use cartoon characters within their pieces. These are not being sold, they aren’t being paid, the pictures will just be displayed in the IMC. They groups
 have even gone as far to say they will create citations for the images on the back of the canvases to give credit to the original artists.
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<p class="MsoNormal">I don’t know what to say to them. Can they use the characters in their art?
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:"Freestyle Script"">Ms. Holly Pantle<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Arial Narrow",sans-serif">Library Media Specialist
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Arial Narrow",sans-serif"><a href="http://www.charleston.k12.il.us/cms/index.html" target="_blank">Charleston Middle School</a><u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Arial Narrow",sans-serif">2018-2020 Board Member- Standards<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Arial Narrow",sans-serif"><a href="https://www.aisled.org/" target="_blank">Association of Illinois School Library Educators</a><u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<a href="https://www.aisled.org/" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.aisled.org/</a></blockquote></div><br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><font face="arial black, sans-serif">Michelle Harris</font><div><font face="tahoma, sans-serif">District Librarian</font></div><div><font face="tahoma, sans-serif">Heyworth CUSD #4</font></div><div><br></div></div></div>