GROUP DISCUSSION #1 FAIR USE ISSUES

FAIR USE AND COPYRIGHT ISSUES

The two recurring themes throughout Group #2’s discussion of Fair Use and Copyright involving educational media centered on “giving credit where credit is due” and adhering to usage limitations. The group had commented that we must all incorporate these Fair Use and Copyright guidelines in order to abide by the law and attribute the work of others when deemed necessary. Fostering the “10% use” policy in our students will be a challenge; however, when we, the educators, implement these guidelines which deal with our and our student’s biggest information source—the Internet, we will use other people’s work or ideas in the right ways.
Although music, videos, or information in the form of cell entries are accessible to Internet users, we must educate our students about these acceptable guidelines by emphasizing them as we require our students to organize PowerPoint presentations or create websites. We will emphasize these guidelines in ways such as having a small lesson on copyright rules and fair use practice before the project is given and establishing a written agreement which contains an understanding and reminder about proper use of downloading files.