Wednesday, April 27, 2011

Copyright for teachers

     Copyright for teachers is a fine line.  Powerpoints created using informaiton taken from other places should only be allowed to be used in a class once but most are used for multiple periods and years.  Everything that a teacher uses should be sourced for their own protection.  I have seen teachers break the law by showing certain videos without a permit and by not siting their sources for powerpoints.  It is common for people to technically break copyright but normally on very small scales and for personal use.  You-tube is a good example of copyright laws being broken but they try to keep videos off that are not lawful. 
     It is a teacher's job to teach copyright.  It could and should be taught with plajorism becasuse copyright is just a larger form of plajorism.  Everyone diserves to have the credit for their own work.  And I know that I will teach it in my classroom even though the lines of copyright are hard to define.

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