Fair use has always intrigued me; what can I use, how much can I use, who is off limits? These questions still hold true to me after watching the videos. I have a better idea now of what is expected and what to do. During the EMDT courses I have tried to use as much of my own work as possible, mainly because it was relevant to what I was working on at the time. I have enjoyed learning about and using the Creative Commons materials. I now use this information when teaching my students about copyright and doing things the right way.
It saddened my heart to know that so many historical works will no longer be available because of the cost to re-license the material. It seems to me that the laws should be changed to incorporate the use of historic pieces into other media even after the copyright has expired. Being a history major I see the need for that historic content to be available to the people rather than in a private collection somewhere. We do need to preserve and use our historical events assets to keep our children and their children up to date on our history and legacy.
Dwayne, I believe the film maker’s statement for best practices in fair use documentation that was shown to us via video has helped us some by us being able to use the copy written material for quoting for critique, quoting pop culture to make a point, capturing incidental material and using historical material to make a point (www.Centerforsocialmedia.org/fairuse). With that being said, my opinion is that we are creating a library of chaptered media material using only incidental material to prove a point. In turn students may no longer want to sit and watch a 60-minute video to prove a point in our increasingly fast paced society. We may be good here.
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DeleteIt is a shame about the historical works. I completely agree with you - we have to come up with a plan to make these works available to our children. We have to be aware of where we have been to know where we are going.
I agree with you,Dwayne. I have learned and understood a lot better the fare use of material and copyrighting . The same as you , I try to create my own videos and own music, just to avoid the part of having to go over the hassle of reassuring that I am not violating any copyright, especially that we are new doing this.
ReplyDeleteAlso, re-licensing can be expensive, that’s why most of these people that were interviewed on the video mentioned that they will pay for royalty, but to do so they will have to pay a lot of money for their material.
It is true, historical information, images and videos should be up to date and I consider that it should be open to free usage for educational purposes, especially for those school that can afford by fare use material.
The important thing here is to be aware and able to use the appropriate material for our classrooms giving a good example not only what were are presenting, but to teach integrity and professionalism.
Good overview. It is sad that our cultural heritage is being locked away in the name of business. Artists need to be supported, but this business model isn't working.
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