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Thursday, June 12, 2003
Copyright 101 for Educators - Wesley A. Fryer, techLearning
"Do I have to get permission to use this?" "Is this legal?" "If it doesn't have the copyright symbol on it, is it still copyrighted?" These are important questions, but unfortunately there are often not clear answers to them. Misconceptions abound among educators today about what uses of multimedia are permissible and legal in the classroom under US copyright law, and it is critical to address and correct these ideas. The advent of MP3 file compression has heralded a new day for music piracy, and online services like Napster have morphed into "peer to peer" (P2P) file sharing clients apparently out of legislative reach, like Morpheous, Kazaa, Limewire, and many others. The issues are real, and the need for educator guidelines is clear. Not only do educators have a responsibility and legislative mandate to model ethical, legal, and appropriate respect for US copyright law in their own teaching, but they must also educate the next generation about the importance and requirements of intellectual property law. Given the dynamic nature of not only technology, but of copyright law itself, this is a formidable challenge.
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