Week 2 “Free Licenses, Copyright & Openness”
What an interesting week. I really enjoyed learning so much history through watching the life Story of Aaron Swartz. Although a story with a sad ending pointing to such obvious flaws in our system, I also found some inspiration and was amazed by the impact of determination and ingenuity from one person trying to make a difference. How often it seems that it takes a tragedy to shine a light on areas that require change, awareness, and a new way of seeing things. The fallout from Aaron’s death and the creation of Aaron’s Law is a perfect example of this.
The Remix Manifesto was so eye opening and highlighted just how gray the area between copyright and original creative work can be. It was fascinating to watch how mash-ups are created and listening to how original work can become something completely different. I seem to keep coming to back to the same thought wondering, is there such a thing as totally original work? The video gave fantastic examples comparing popular songs. How can we not build upon these. It made the Copyright Register, Marybeth Peter’s quote, “You can’t say it’s creativity if it’s not your stuff” almost comical. I found myself saying, why not? The question posed to her about how much trouble a person could get into using clips of music, again shows how gray the whole issue is. Her answer, “it depends how upset they are”. I have to say I was infuriated, when during class I heard the fact that my school district owned any resource I create. Does the district own work I design during my VIU courses if it is for my class? It is something I will be looking into further, as I plan on copylefting all of my work in the hopes it will be used and improved upon. As I mentioned in my first post, my children are consumed with making videos. My son especially is interested in adding music and creating gaming videos. This led me to look more closely at copyright for Youtube. Interesting to note, Youtube gives strikes against using copyright work. Three strikes and your account is out! I found an interesting video How To Legally Use Copyrighted Music, Games, and Movies on YouTube. The copyright “expert” B Chambers, explains the steps needed to use copyrighted work to enable someone to make money from their work and not receive a strike. I was left with the thought that I would really have to want to use that music to follow all of those requirements. I can see I have a lot to learn to teach my kids.
Felipe Sequeira
5/14/2016 11:18:31 am
Thank you for your post. It reflects much of the difficulties around the use of content online these days. The video you linked to shows how potentially laborious monetizing a Youtube account can be. Imagine contacting hundreds of copyright holders to get permission to upload a mashup album!
Stefanie
5/16/2016 10:41:01 am
I too was shocked to hear that the resources that we create are property of our school districts! It seems absurd, as these are OUR creations and not the work of someone else. I think part of the problem with copyright and the uses of other peoples work both online and off, is that people just really aren't educated about the topic. I would assume that the majority of people who are making videos, music or even using resources online don't even realize that they aren't legally allowed to do this. I clearly have a lot to learn myself and will shift my thinking in terms of how I present this information to my students. They need to be educated on how to go about using these resources as well.
Lindsey
5/16/2016 08:21:27 pm
I had a chat today with one of our assistant superintendents to make sure my information was correct. Yes indeed, they do own my work and I'm supposed to check with them before publishing! I did however speak to another administrator in the district and was told if I was not publishing it for money and was sharing my work, she didn't see a problem. I'm going with that advice:) Comments are closed.
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