Copyright and fair use Hayley Pugh ETEC 424

My post Hayley Pugh Robert Wolfe ETEC 424 16 February 2017 The Impact of Copyright and Fair Use on Education According to the UMUC library's website, copyright and fair use are laws designed to ensure the security and originality of work by protecting people from using it without permission. Copyright is the law which binds a certain work to a certain person and disallows other people from making it their own. Fair use is what allows other people to use said work within reason and without stealing what another person has created. Copyright and fair use go hand-in-hand to protect work from being misused by others. The impact this has on education is a big one. For one thing, students learn by example that their own work matters and shouldn't be stolen by other people. It places a certain emphasis on work that otherwise may be overlooked. The laws of copyright and fair use allow students and teachers to really value what they create by learning to value the work of other people and understanding the fundamental issues with stealing that work.

My post continued A second impact this makes on education is that it makes people keep moving forward with ideas rather than rotating between the same ones other people have already created. According to the Stanford University webpage about fair use, it is only legal and "fair" for others to use other people's work if they are somehow adding to it or building something new off of it. This ensures that people are actually contributing to society rather than taking from it, which in essence is the entire purpose of education - giving people the knowledge and skills to use their individuality to add to the world. In essence, copyright and fair use are essential to the ethics and progression of education and human thinking. References: http://fairuse.stanford.edu/overview/fair-use/four-factors/ http://sites.umuc.edu/library/libhow/copyright.cfm

My response to Farzana sharmin I definitely agree that copyright can help add to a teacher's lesson without resulting in them stealing someone else's work. Your point on the first amendment is one that I hadn't considered, but it is important to consider the boundary of where free speech becomes someone else's speech. Copyright is a great way to ensure that people say what they want, as long as it is in a way that respects the words of other people as well. As far as the negative goes, it looks like you're saying that educators must not use more than they need because if they did that would not only be a violation of fair use, but a sort of cop out for the teacher. If this is what you're saying, I agree that the use of copyrighted materials too frequently stifles the innovation and creativity of the teacher, leaving a stale lesson for the students. 

My response to Harley floyd I think it was a great idea to look up videos of fair use examples! So does fair use also work for other works of art, such as putting on a play or using pieces of music in some kind of performance or publication? I believe it is because I have heard people involved in theatre or music talk about performing pieces and no longer needing the artist's permission, or to pay for using it, because it is in the public domain. In these situations, it is typically because the piece has passed a certain time requirement where people no longer have to pay to use it. That sounds kind of like what you're talking about in this post, although it is somewhat different from studying stories or books in an English class. All of this being said, it is most important to just be aware of copyright and fair use laws so as not to break them in any way.