The Fair Use Act is one I have studied in previous classes. I took a quiz to see what I knew, and I did how I expected. I know that teachers/educators have access to copyrighted materials as long as we use it in an educational setting – in our classroom. We can also only use a portion of the material; though I don’t remember exactly how much, 20%?
Something that really irritates me, though, is the technology that keeps me from doing such things. I have some great clips from movies I want to show and can’t get them off the DVD. I end up taking the whole DVD in and wasting time finding the section. I want to use Movie Maker and other such things, but I can’t pull the file off. Who do I talk to about that? I want to remind them that I have fair use of that material, and they are violating my rights to use it!! Oh, it’s not my right? Oh, then…okay.
So I’ve been combing the blogs I follow looking at their copyrighting signatures. I can only find one, and it is fully copyrighted since the blogger gets money from selling his science teaching ideas. Hmmm… I haven’t seen anything else for the rest. I’ll keep my eyes peeled.
