Copyright Readings

What did you chose to read or watch?

I chose to read The Purpose of Copyright by Linda Pallas Loren, Copyright 101 For Educators: Winter 2003, and Copyright for Educators. I found that The Purpose of Copyright by Linda Loren was very informative about the technicalities of copyright and what copyright is and how it works. I found that Copyright 101 for Educators was interesting when learning what sources one needs to site and how to teach our students why sopyrighted material is important and what the appropriate use of this copyrighted information may be.

What is the Teach Act?

The teach act is something that allows teachers to teach online to class and share images, videos, and other media to the class without dealing with copyright. For example when in a blackboard shell class, I can watch these videos that Lee has assigned us to watch and has shared with us through the shell. However, if I were to paste this video on face book or some other online site and claim that the video or pod cast was my own, this would be a copyright violation.

What is something new that you learned?

Based on the information from The Purpose of Copyright by Linda Pallas Loren, I found out that copyright is not to protect music of artists and inventors but rather to “promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries." I have always thought, as addressed in this article, that copyright was to make sure that artist, inventors, and discoverers were protected and given credit. As addressed in Copyright for Educators, the copyright law does NOT say that if you use 10 seconds or less of a video or any multimedia that you do not have to site the source. I thought that if you used such a small portion of a piece of music or movie that I would not have to site it.

What is Copyright?

Copyright, according to Copyright for Educators, is what legally protects the work of someone from others taking their idea. This is something that becomes extremely complicated when money is involved and the reuse of commonly used images and media. For instance the image of Obama with the red, blue, and white is a hot topic these days because the print that was made by the artist looks like it was made from a photograph taken by another artist. For this reason, the initial photographer needs to be credited and asked for permission to use this image.

What are you going to do differently based on this information?

I found that the different sources gave me an insight to the different resources out there. What I found especially interesting was from the video, Copyright for Educators where a person from the audience spoke about her elementary students sitting photographs. I know that I personally use google images for multiple power points and other presentations, but I have trouble remember to site the sources.