All Rights Reserved

Welcome back, this week has a focus in Copyright policies.

What does copyright mean?

Wikimedia Commons. (2010) [Online Image]. Retrieved on September 22, 2016 from https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:ME_109_Thief.png

Well, I thought I knew, and I guess I knew the basics- but the guidelines extend so much further than I ever imagined.

• You can hand out only a short excerpt to students in a handout
• "Short" means up to 10% of a copyrighted work only
• You can use statues, regulations and court decisions BUT not if you life in Manitoba, Nunavut or Quebec

Copyright guidelines are riddled with these contingencies, but the basics of it are still not hard to follow and moreover, are important to follow.  Though all throughout our school careers the always dreaded and tedious task of creating a works cited page was I think every students worst nightmare, these pages have crucial roles in academic work.  Works cited pages are there to maintain the integrity and ownership of the writers original thinking/work.  

Teaching this concept to younger students could pose some challenges as they would have a harder time in seeing its importance.  "Well if they put it online for everyone to see then they obviously don't mind, its what they want." But think about a time when you told someone a good joke (one you made up on your own) and then later you hear that person retelling YOUR joke and everyone laughs, but they take the credit- sucks doesn't it?!

Friends- Chandler and Ross Fight About the Joke. [YouTube Video]. (2004). Retrieved September

               21, 2016 from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DVq94nRrj5s

Since copyright guidelines can be easily confusing and maybe a little tricky to manouever explaining every stipulation to them is probably going to be too much, as well as irrelevant.  But it is still important to teach students about plagiarism and protecting their own work as well, or else you'll end up like Ross and Chandler.  While teaching students about the importance of copyright guidlines I would also find it important to teach students HOW to copy right their work through creative commons- something I didn't know before this week.

When you publish anything online whether it be a picture, a piece of writing, a video etc. you automatically have an all rights reserved copyright to that piece of work.  This copyright restricts anyone from using this work.  But what about when you make music and you wnt people to download it or do a study and want people to use the findings what then?  I think its important to teach students how to share their creativity with the world.

MacEntee, S. (2011). All Rights Reserved [Online Image]. Retrieved September 22, 2016

                      Retrieved from http://bit.ly/2d3FhbK