Sources used: Copyright and Fair Use. Faden, Eric. "Fair(Y) Use Tale: a Short Film." Center for Internet and Society. Stanford Law School Center or Internet and Society. 3 Nov. 2007
Wednesday, December 5, 2012
Copyright
Copyright is a body of original work that can be seen or heard, it cannot be an idea. Copyright laws protect the owners of these types of works, by giving them the permission to grant or deny other people from using their work for an amount of time. The exception to this rule is "fair use", which grants permission for copyrighted work to be used without having to ask for permission if it is used for scholarship, research, or teaching. Fair use has three limitations that must be followed ir order to be covered under it,it is dependent on the amount of the work borrowed compared to what the total work is, what kind of work is being borrowed, and it cannot affect the monetary value of the original work in the marketplace.
An educator can copy and distribute to the students copies of a copyrighted work as long as it is a part of the work, and not the whole thing such as a whole book. An educator cannot distribute a whole work to avoid purchasing it, because they would be affecting the market place value of that work infringing on fair use. But, photo copying a few pages or paragraphs of the book is acceptable for educational purposes.
Fair use is a great law, because it is meant to inspire members of society to come up with new idea and original work, in order to inspire new ideas students first must learn what came before so that they can build upon was has already been done, and be creative.
Sources used: Copyright and Fair Use. Faden, Eric. "Fair(Y) Use Tale: a Short Film." Center for Internet and Society. Stanford Law School Center or Internet and Society. 3 Nov. 2007.
Sources used: Copyright and Fair Use. Faden, Eric. "Fair(Y) Use Tale: a Short Film." Center for Internet and Society. Stanford Law School Center or Internet and Society. 3 Nov. 2007
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Fair use is very important because it helps protect us as current and future teachers. We need to be careful because by simply copying an article that usually is purchased could be breaking the law. I think you made a good point that copyright can be seen or heard.
ReplyDeleteFair use is very important for educators to be aware of because providing supplemental information in the classroom in an effective way to apply real world information to lessons. Copyright laws can be ambiguous and getting permission to use information can be almost impossible, so fair use defends educators against copyright infrigements as long as those factors are met.
ReplyDeleteEven though the criteria for what constitutes fair use leaves a lot of grey area when applying to different situations, it's really meant to protect the rights of the creator, which I think is great. Although it was interesting to see that a lot of the copyright laws are not only influenced by congress but by corporate stakeholders.
ReplyDeleteGood description of what is considered fair use. I think it is great that fair use permits teachers to use copyrighted material for the sake of education. But students need to be made aware of the details involving fair use, so they can understand why its ok to use copyrighted material in some situations but not others.
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