Please visit the following link to listen to listen to “Crossing the Copyright Boundary in the Digital Age” by Karen Richardson:
http://k12onlineconference.org/?p=185
I chose this as my last session because this touches upon the topic of our last class. I really enjoyed the discussions that we had in our last class, and I found that this presentation had some good points, but it didn’t really bring anything new to the table that we hadn’t discussed in our copyright discussion. I did find the length of time that a piece can be copyrighted for to be very interesting. I guess I never realised how it has historically become harder and harder to use someone else’s work. I always assumed that things have always been strictly copyrighted.
I think I agree with the increased amount of time that something can be copyrighted for, because I definitely believe that the creator should have full rights to their work and be able to use it however they want and try to earn as much money from it as possible. I think that Fair Use helps to balance these restrictions out in a fair way (hence Fair Use). I am a little confused about Public Domain though, and I wasn’t able to get that much more clarification from the materials in this presentation. I understand taht Public Domain can be used by anyone, but I don’t know how you know when something is Public Domain.
I absolutely love the Creative Commons idea, and I think this is a great way for people to decide exactly how they want to share their creations with the world. The whole concept is a fabulous idea. I wasn’t aware of it at all prior to our last class, but there was a great video about Creative Commons in the extra materials for this presentation. My favorite find in this presentation though was the spoof on Disney movies entitled “A Fairy Use Tail” by Eric Faden. If you haven’t seen this you need to take a look. Not only does he have a great point, it is just a fun and entertaining little creation. Most importantly, he has shared this work with a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 License.
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timstahmer
// Oct 30, 2007 at 6:05 am
Many of the pictures posted to flickr and other photo sharing sites are offered with some variation of a Creative Commons share-alike license. That makes it a great place to find materials for students to use in their projects since you don’t have to worry about violating copyright restrictions. From the CC web site you can also search for music, sound effects, video and other media with a CC license.
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timstahmer
// Oct 30, 2007 at 6:11 am
Many of the pictures posted to flickr and other photo sharing sites are offered with some variation of a Creative Commons share-alike license. That makes it a great place to find materials for students to use in their projects since you don’t have to worry about violating copyright restrictions. From the CC web site you can also search for music, sound effects, video and other media with a CC license.
Incidentally, A Fair(y) Use Tale was not intended as a spoof. The author is a professor of Film Studies and he created it to both explain the fair use provisions of the copyright laws to his students and tweak Disney, which has far more lawyers than animators and isn’t afraid to use them. Even if they go often go farther than the law allows.
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