Today we researched about copyright laws and how copying images, music and videos off the internet is considered stealing.
It's important for students and teachers to appreciate copyright restrictions. If people's creations (photos, art, story, music, etc) weren't copyrighted that person could have their ideas duplicated, borrowed, stolen, etc. and potentially could profit off of it without acknowledging the original creator. We have a moral and legal obligation to not steal from a grocery store, retail store, someone's private property, etc. Why wouldn't we extend these same obligations and laws to resources we find on the web?
For me, this was the big hole in the lesson today... "now what?" I felt a lot of class time was spent on the history of copyright laws and how far we've come, however I wish we could have spent more time on the application of our understandings. Where do we find copyright info for all the different images, videos and music we may want to use? Are there lots of websites out there for us to draw from without running into copyright issues? Does our digital story need to be so very carefully put together so the copyrighted pictures are clearly labeled? The "now what" portion of our day really left me wanting more. Truly - now what? I know some of these questions were answered in class, but I don't know how to get to your "Doc Waters" site. I know how to get to our class site and to the Doc Waters blog, but you referred to a Sandie "Doc" Waters site with lots of references. How do we get there?
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