Katie,
I
am glad that Full Sail is so serious about copyright laws. I am glad
that I got a chance to learn about them, but wish that we were
introduced to them in Month 1. My school nor I ever took them
seriously. I have to create all of my own curriculum and trying to do
that without "borrowing" from everywhere and anywhere has been
impossible. I catch myself now always thinking about how "I'm really
not supposed to be doing this, but it's in the best interest of my
students." My students need authentic learning and often times that is
capturing an exact image of something, such as a grocery sign, so Google
has always been my friend.
I guess I might feel differently if someone was taking something I came up with, but I haven't gotten there yet!
Kristen
In response to:
Tuesday, May 1, 2012
Wk1- Reading:Copyright Issues, Parts 1-3
I feel like at this point we should all be well aware of
what is copyright and what is fair use.
I know my industry (education) and my company takes both of these
subjects very serious and frowns upon anyone who violates the policy. As an educator if we don’t uphold the
rules regarding copyright and fair use why would our students want to uphold
the same policies? I love that my
place of work takes these 2 things very serious and even holds continuing
education classes about these 2 topics to keep all of the staff and faculty up
to date on the rules. So this in
not a topic that just gets swept under the rug in my environment, and no one
turns their head and looks the other way if they see another teacher breaking
the policy. What is it like in your environment?
Photo from opensourceway's photostream via flickr.
Another reason why I think the company I work for takes
these policies so seriously is because we have a lot of material that is
copyrighted and we don’t want anyone else to try and steal our copyrighted
material, such as our school logo, which is very unique to us. We always say in my office “ we have to
protect the brand” whenever we our designing something that would require us to
use the school logo.
One thing that I think is a growing concern is the ReMix
culture. Don’t get me wrong I love some of those videos on YouTube that are
remixed. I get a kick out of them, I post them on Facebook for other people to
view, maybe I shouldn't be doing that. I also think, as the presidential election gets closer we will see more
and more of those types of videos being created. At some point we will have to decided how far is to far,
what is the time limit one can use a video clip to remix something.
I am glad that Full Sail is so serious about copyright laws. I am glad that I got a chance to learn about them, but wish that we were introduced to them in Month 1. My school nor I ever took them seriously. I have to create all of my own curriculum and trying to do that without "borrowing" from everywhere and anywhere has been impossible. I catch myself now always thinking about how "I'm really not supposed to be doing this, but it's in the best interest of my students." My students need authentic learning and often times that is capturing an exact image of something, such as a grocery sign, so Google has always been my friend.
I guess I might feel differently if someone was taking something I came up with, but I haven't gotten there yet!
Kristen
Wk1- Reading:Copyright Issues, Parts 1-3