Chapter 15: Copyright and Fair Use
"In short, we all came for clarity and left with grayity." I think that statement from Chapter 15 sums up how to think about using someone else's work.
Ohler's suggestions about how to talk with students about if they would like people downloading their music or art without asking seemed practical. Naturally students, and any of us, would be flattered to have someone like our work and want to download it, so we say we would not mind. Then the follow-up question asking if that was your soul source of making money, how would you feel? Nice. This can all lead to the frame of mind for students to ask permission to use someone else's work--a good habit to cultivate.
I was happy to see the more tangible guidelines offered from what the law says, although I realize not necessarily applicable to all situation.
1. 10% or 30 seconds of songs or movies (Does that mean if a a movie is 90 minutes long, you can use 10% or 9 minutes?)
2. 10% or up to 1000 words of text
3. No more than 5 images from one artist (Does that mean in one project? So a kid could use 10 images as long as each one was in a different project from the student?)
So I agree with some of my classmates--perhaps it is easier just to compose everything one's self, and only search the Creative Commons site....
Adding music to videos, and doing mash-ups just seems like an exercise in futility now. Too many permissions to get. I can't use those first videos I made on a website for my job, as even though I am working for a non-profit in the name of education, the website does market our services to schools as well as provide professional learning information.
http://www.copyright.gov/fls/fl102.html
ReplyDeleteFair use: Copyright Law cites examples of activities that courts have regarded as fair use: reproduction by a teacher or student of a small part of a work to illustrate a lesson;
What we do with using other's work, as long as we give them credit, I believe falls under Fair Use. The courts themselves have a hard time determining Fair Use. If the author felt infringed on the work I used then I would remove it, which has never occurred in my use of others' works. I am not out to make money off their work. Always try to give credit to the author.