Discuss copyright for teachers. What surprised you? What ways have you observed copyright laws being violated in schools (no names, please. Just examples)? How about violations outside of the school environment? Is it your job to teach copyright respect to your students? How can you do this?
Copyright is a serious matter and many things regarding copyright had surprised me. For example, here are the following things that surprised me about copyright:
- When the rapper made his version of the song 'Pretty Woman' he won the case because he had an absolutely different audience.
- That movies cannot be shown in schools without having a liscense and such only if it relates to the class
- That unpublished work has a copyright term of the life of the author plus 70 yrs.
I have also many times have seen copyright laws being violated in schools:
- Teachers would show random popular movies right before winter break or spring break and the movies have nothing to do with the curriculum.
- I have had teachers make copies of chapters from books just to save money or the trouble of having to buy them.
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