Tuesday, May 10, 2011

Week 2 - Wimba Make-Up


Most of the conversation was directed at the videos we just finished watching so it was a good review of the copyright content. I had a hard time figuring out if titles were copyrighted or not until Joe explained that further. Jason Reed mentioned something he called the “poor man’s” copyright, which I had never heard of before. It sounds like a few other members of the groups had used that seal-in-the-envelope approach too. Another piece that was a surprise was that all you had to do now was save something in order for it to be copyrighted. The most significant piece of copyright info for me was the portion about Fair Use in education – “if the lesson can be taught without the material it’s not Fair Use”. I’m not entirely clear on one point though. If it is a breach of copyright to play music in a classroom from our computer, is it also a breach of copyright to play music from the radio? What about Pandora? I’m hoping for some insight on these questions so if you have any real legal answers, please respond.

(SqueegyX, "Pandora", Jan 8, 2008, Creative Commons License)

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