Alarm Bells Ring: I can't play my itunes in class!I spend more time in my classroom than I do at home, lol. I will go insane, lol.
Interesting WIMBA session. I know we do not have lifetimes to spend on copyright, but I feel we all walk away from this session a bit wiser and more knowledgeable. I really appreciated the questions being asked because they allowed me to reflect on where copyright really can impact the daily decisions I make. For the most part, each of us will continue to make the decisions we have already justified in our heads about what gray areas we are to muddle through regarding copyright.
I find the societal impacts of copyright to be of most interests. It is this discussion where we as educators, and creators can participate. The discussion surrounding this seemed to indicate that the laws will have to change to meet the challenges and demands of the 21st Century. I agree, but this will not happen on its own. Activists and not-so-activists will have to demand change. Discussions will need to be engaged and maintained. Isn't this what we are here to do? To beat it all, we have students producing quality and not so quality work to be fodder for this discussion.
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That's so much the point, that until we speak up copyright will continue to only serve the powerful media companies and fail to serve it's original balance between the rights of the content creators and the needs of our culture to produce art.
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