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The movies/clips were so informative, beginning with "Good Copy, Bad Copy" This was a very clever film that took a look at how music is being remixed and used around the world. How ultimately, the remixes are being remixed. After viewing this I was left wondering how I felt and what tack to take with this blog post. Then I reviewed the rest of the weeks assignments and read the book and discovered more about Creative Commons and what kind of service they provide to the creating world. Information is changing so quickly and the way multimedia is being used is evolving and becoming more common place, anyone can create something new. By allowing creators to easily put a copyright on their creations, supports the copyright laws while at the same time stays flexible enough so that materials can be shared. I believe that this is the way of the future, people are going to find things and put them together with their own spin. As long as creators are being given credit for creations, and people are being sensible with others work, resourcefulness can continue on with pure intentions. Piracy can be slowed and infringements can be turned around. The answer to this divide is education, letting students, creators and teachers know that they have rights and restrictions and what those both are. The more knowledge the more people have, the better the world will be.
Tiffany,
ReplyDeleteI too am excited at the possibilities Creative Commons licensing offers for the future and agree education is the best method of stopping the copyright problem. I think people will create without regard to copyright until they are informed of better options or face legal consequences.
Unfortunately, all educators are not facing the copyright issues head-on and informing students of the proper way to deal with copyright problems. My sister is attending an online school for her Bachelor's degree (you may remember references to her in earlier classes) but has changed her major from psychology to photography. Many of the assignments I have seen require her to get an image (not all are required to be Creative Commons) and morph it in some way. I have never seen directions given where the student is required to give credit in any way to the source of the original image. I think this is simply magnifying the problem because now this entire class of students will learn it is okay to morph an image from another source and claim it as their own. Ironically, they are required to put their names on every image they turn in.....
Piracy is a slightly different animal in my opinion. Copyright is about using someone else's work without permission in one's own work. Piracy is about copying another's work and selling it for profit. This is solved fairly easily with feature films in Nigeria being released in theaters and tape/DVD at the same time so the need for pirating the film is greatly reduced. Brazil had a great idea with their music as well, use the CDs as publicity to draw crowds for the live shows and then the vendors are the ones affected by piracy issues instead of the artist.
Creative Commons is the way of the future - I hope. It seems to be such a simple and logical way to copyright material and allow the creator to decide how the material can be used.
Brenda McGee commented by saying:
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I agree that students need to be educated on the laws and restrictions. I learned some things I did not know by watching these videos. I am a Graphic Designer and Illustrator and I have seen some of my work reused repeatedly when it was purchased for something else.
The one thing I found disturbing is the locking away of history. The students of today will never see this very important history that helped to build this nation. I think these movies need to be available for educational purposes because in order to grow you need to know your history. I see this as a form of censorship and control over information.
great reflection and thoughts about copyright issues. I'm intrigued that you feel like education is part of the solution for bridging the gap between media users and media creators. Wonderful idea.
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