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Monday, September 15, 2008

Copyright and Fair Use SR

The first thing that came to my mind was, I'm LOOKING for copyright abuse, I didn't go into the quiz without prior knowledge from the article about copyright and fair use issues. Some of the items surprised me in that the situation seemed suspicious and/or a tiny bit malicious, and it turned out to be an okay situation rather than a bad situation.

One of the ones, I was surprised because not only was the situation a bad one, but it's easily rectified by calling the company and paying for the rights. I would assume that at the rate the rights could be purchased, it would not put that much of a strain on educational funds. Another one seemed malicious because of the precise wording of the scenario; to deliberately edit a piece of material seemed like it would fall under the bad situation category. One of the very first ones seemed suspicious solely because of the software mentioned. It turned out to be okay due to the fact that the machine hadn't been listed under foul play in previous instances. Another one, because it stated that permission was given from the right sources, was fine to display in public forums. In one of the situations, it was really difficult to get what was happening because of the technical terms in the text. Some of the 'simultaneous use' issues were very confusing.

1 comments:

TexasTheresa said...

You are so right, it is all very confusing. It would be so much easier if the "malicious/not malicious" rule would be true. I like that idea. 3/3