COPYRIGHT

• What copyright laws were you already aware of?
• What copyright laws were you not familiar with/surprised you?
• How do you see copyright law affecting education in the future, specifically with regards to the increasing use of technology?

I actually am very big on using youtube and get very frustrated when I am searching up a song and come across a black screen with no music because it infringed upon the artists copyright rights.

As far as music, and not using someone else’s original material as yours, I am very aware of all those laws and concepts as well as how serious the legal matters are that revolve around these cases.

I am also very familiar with those that protect the material and original products of companies. There were very few copyright laws that surprised me, I have come across a majority of them multiple times (not by infringing upon them) but in seeing them on other websites. I think that copyright is a serious issue when it comes to technology and education being that there are SO many resources that we often times can forget to give due credit to whomever’s materials we are accessing and using for our own personal presentations or lessons.

I like to look at it like plagiarism in a sense, I found an amazing article/website that helped me really understand copyright issues and the education system from the educational standpoint in terms of how careful we as educators need to be and the major details that we often times overlook.

I think that as technology advances, a lot of material will be accessed online and a lot of our students/peers/faculty will be sending and submitting different articles and links that we forget to cite.

For this matter, I am very glad that the educational system implements works cited pages, I think very early on we are teaching our youth to give credit where its due as well as protect and cite the resources that are not only being accessed but used to enhance our own presentations and original works.

I think that what we should also do to teach about the dangers of being caught up in copyright legal matters is to also teach our youth that in order to be protected from coming across legal issues, copyright laws require that you ask permission to use original works. I think that most often, we get confused with thinking that works cited or disclaimers can protect people from the legal matters that are involved in copyright matters, and they are not.

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