Thursday, February 16, 2012

Activity #2: Code of Best Practice in Fair Use for Media Literacy

1.)Media in education is using digital and audiovisual material to pass on facts and information. Media literacy education is teaching people to access, analyze, evaulate, and communicate messages, but it can only work when people have a clear understanding of "fair use".

2.)The social bargain at the heart of fair use is copying.

3.)Fair use is more important today because copy right protects more works now for longer, creators have a harder time obtaining and paying for licenses to use the material.

4.) Two key questions that judges use to determine fair use are:
"Did the unlicensed use “transform” the material taken from the copyrighted work by using it for a different purpose than that of the original, or did it just repeat the work for the same intent and value as the original?" and "Was the material taken appropriate in kind and amount, considering the nature of the copyrighted work and of the use?"

5.)Yes that is Fair Use because the material it was being used a teaching tool and since that was the nature the copyrighted work was being used for a teacher showing The Lion King would fall under Fair Use.

6.) The principle that relates the strongest to my digital story is principle 4.. It relates the best because I used a video editing software to make it and I included parts from copyrighted material for illustration and sound.

7.)No.

8.) No because you are using it for educational purposes. All you have to do is cite the information you used.

9.)Yes, educators need to do things legally so they can teach their students the right & legal thing to do.

10.) The myth that surprised me the most was that fair use was too complicated and best left up to lawyers because that's what I thought. I didn't think it was that easy.

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