A student film buff downloads a new release from a Taiwanese Web site to use for a humanities project. As long as the student gives credit to the sites from which he's downloaded material, this is covered under fair use.
#8 I feel like this situation would get me in trouble. If the student gave credit to the website and only used this new release for a project, I probably wouldn’t have seen a problem with him using it. The question responds that educators may use “legitimately acquired” material without permission, but how is one suppose to determine what is legitimate and what is not? They say to use your common sense in determining if the peer to peer resources are pirated or not, but I don’t have any type of sense when it comes to issues like these, and I can guess I’m not the only one! Evaluating the whole quiz, I wasn’t surprised to see that I only got a few right. I know very little when it comes to copyright use and “fair game”, I’ve just been taught how to properly give credit to resources when using them in papers and projects. How can anyone possibly know all of these rules and regulations anyways? There seems to be way too many of them and not to mention hundreds of situations could arise that one might question what fair use is. I guess I better start studying up on The Educator's Guide to Copyright and Fair Use!
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nice reflection. and you ask a great question, "How is one supposed to determine what is legitimate and what is not?" it's a very frustrating area but critically important that we know it and go over it with our students. good for you for having such a positive outlook on what you need to do next.
dr.theresa
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