Tuesday, September 15, 2009

Copyright and Fair Use SR

· It is really interesting that a teacher can pull resources off the web and let her students use them, as long as the projects do not go back online. I am slightly confused on why this can happen.

· I would have never guessed that teachers can put student’s work up on a website without the student’s consent. Even in middle school my parents had to sign paperwork saying that the school could do this to my projects.

· I didn’t know that teachers could use materials from online without permission and it is acceptable. As long as the teacher does not post her project with the materials in it on the web then it is perfectly fine.

· Disney movies are not allowed to be used in class without consent, but a frontier movie can be. This is bizarre. I just don’t understand why this is the case.

· Teachers are allowed to digitize movies as long as it’s for educational purposes. Why is this not the same for Disney movies?

· It’s interesting that teachers can buy machines to break through the protection code on movies and DVDs. This does not seem fair to the companies that put the protection on the media in the first place.

· I thought the only way you could use music and songs is if it was the length of the free version on ITunes or something. Why can the teacher provide this whole song for the student?

· It makes sense that people cannot sell something that they made with fair use policies. It’s not fair to make money off something you did not fully make yourself.

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