Copyright

We have now made it to the second week of class and I have a new assignment to turn in. I was sent to explore the world of copyright and how it effects teachers and what they can and cannot use. As I was exploring youtube, I was looking for videos that portrayed topics that I will be teaching in my future class. I found this clip about different interior design ideas that I felt was a good follower of copyright laws. They gave credit to different designers by stating their name and the website where they found the information. I also found that they kept the laws for music. Copyright states that a user can use no more than 30 seconds of a particular song. As I was listening to the music they used you can hear a slight snag in the song where they cut it to play the same 30 seconds over and over. They made the song long enough to last the whole presentation, however they played the same 30 seconds of the song so they would not go past copyright laws. As I evaluated the video I found that they did not give credit to the individual who actually took the photo. They gave credit to the designer but not the photographer.

A second video I found on youtube has to do with sewing, which is another aspect of my major and possibly a subject I would teach in a high school. The clip I found violated some specific copyright rules including not citing where the information was found and giving credit to those they should have, and not only did they play the full clip, but almost always, individuals are not to show or display musicals without permission. Musicals and plays seem to have higher standards than regular movies or songs found on iTunes.