Sharon Hohlfeld

Copyright Activity

1. A teacher in your school (who has a really rowdy bunch of monsters) makes an agreement with them that they learn how to make Power Point presentations on sports, war, hunting, rock music and such. She lets them get graphics from anywhere on the Internet. She recommends sites such as Sports Illustrated, ESPN, DOD, Rock Music Hall of Fame. They make great presentations and become great kids. What are the copyright implications??

-According to the Fair Use Guidelines, established in the Copyright Act of 1976 credits and allows educators the use of multimedia following particular guidelines. Although the Fair Use guidelines have created some tension as to an agreement of what is fair and what isn’t fair, the most important is that regarding multimedia projects created by teachers for instructional purposes of done by students as part of a requirement. The above statement, in my opinion of what I have recently learned, is acceptable by the Fair Use Guidelines. I am only concerned that the assignment is not educational and simply to calm students down and distract them. However, in any case, the assignment has and is completed at school and in the end is educational, with the teaching of power point. So as long as these students do not post their power points to the Web and advertise them as their own, the material and information gathered from other sites is acceptable.

2. You find an outstanding World Wide Web site on the Internet and want your web page to contain some of the glittering wonderfulness of this site. You download and use part of the web page.

-This is against Copyright laws only because as you may be allowed information from other websites posting it onto your own without written permission is not considered legal. Nor does the situation ever say anything about you being a teacher and possibly having the Fair Use laws to support your doings. The whole point here is giving credit and receiving permission from the other party to include their own work into your web page. Otherwise, if none of this is done, the work and information on your web page looks as though you did it yourself and you cannot get full credit for this because it is not yours!