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Hearing the copyrights have gone from 14 years to 100 years for companies worries me to what the future of creative media will be if new artists worry about being sued for using copyright content to create new works of art. The video A fair(y) use tale brought a smile to my face because it uses the law to push the boundaries of copyright laws to prove a point and teach viewers about how fair use can be used as a defense in copyright law cases.
Working for a company and not being an educator creating educational media is easier to use since my target audience has more knowledge about the world and I can use photos and images within the company to prove my points. For educators the difficult is how can I get my students to understand a point without violating a potential copyright at the same time. We all understand popular culture and students would love to have that as a reference point for learning, so the challenge is on the educator to be able to relate the information in a way that does not violate any copyrights but still gets the message across.
Edwin,
ReplyDeleteI enjoyed your take on the required reading for this week as well. I am learning more and more about copyright and sometimes I am surprised by the number of things that are protected. As a teacher, I understand what you mean about how we can so easily break some rules of copyright. For instance, when I was in college as a voice major you could not copy your music and if paper music was present at your jury (when you sing in front of all the voice professors for a grade) you would fail. So copyright really is serious!!!
I have the same opinion; all this information can be quite overwhelming especially with the Internet bringing in so many elements. The videos did a great job of simplifying the information in an entertaining way. You made a great point on having to present to adults and students as well. We’re suppose to provide them with material to build on but it can be difficult when the resources are being constantly reduced while the adults already have a lot of that prior knowledge. Fortunately, the rights do acknowledge the significance in being able to use that material to at least teach. Hopefully, with sites like creative commons the balance of what we can and what we cannot use otherwise will even out.
ReplyDeleteI'm curious about something you wrote: "creating educational media is easier to use since my target audience has more knowledge about the world and I can use photos and images within the company to prove my points." Working with adults can be easier because of their knowledge, but I'm not sure what you mean by "I can use photos and images within the company to prove my points." Do you mean images about the company or created by company? Because I've seen corporate staff development sessions that violated copyright by using popular videos and images and music like there was no tomorrow and the presenters had no idea that they couldn't just acquisition media for their own purposes without permission. It's been my experience that because companies often have a profession staff development team that connected to marketing they are very careful about not violating copyright, but depending on how far down the chain away from the legal office one is often dictates how carefully this is regulated. Just wondering...
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