Lesson 1 Copyrights and Wrongs

5. How do you think you would you feel if someone used your creative work? Would it make a difference whether they did the following:                                                        

• Asked your permission to use it?
• Gave you credit as the creator?
• Changed the picture or added a caption without asking you?                                                    

Please reflect on how your sense of pride and ownership would/would not be affected.

 

-As long as someone asks permission and gives me credit as the creator it would be okay, but if they change the picture or add a caption with asking me, and make it seem like it's their work I wouldn't feel good but think that my ownership would be affected. 

                                                        

6. What do you think it means to use someone else’s creative work responsibly? Does it matter how and where you use it? (Think about context, and how it might affect or alter the creator’s original intent.)

                                                                        

In  addition to these key rules, some additional information may help you decide when and how it is all right – and not all right – to use someone else’s creative work.

                                                                        

DEFINE the Key Vocabulary terms fair use and commercial purposes. Refer to the Key Vocabulary.  Make sure you understand that fair use allows you to use only a small part of someone else’s creative work as part of something new. The work cannot be used for commercial purposes, and it can only be used in certain ways, which include:

                                                                        

• schoolwork and education
• criticism or social commentary
• news reporting
• comedy or parody

- I think it means to use them in a good way. Fair use is using information without permission but in a certain way like education, news reporting and more. However, commercial use isn't using creative work responsibly because it's for their profit.

                                                                

7. What are some ways you might use creative work that would constitute fair use? Which ways wouldn’t be covered under fair use? (You should understand that using a small amount of someone else’s work in a school report or the school paper would be fair use, while posting it on their blog or on a social networking site would not be fair use.)

                                                                

DEFINE the Key Vocabulary terms copyright, Creative Commons, and public domain. (When students want to use someone’s creative work in a way that isn’t covered by fair use, they need to investigate its copyright status.

Please read following scenario to help explain the definitions:                                                 

                                                        

Imagine you took a photo of your dog and posted it online. Because you are the creator, you own the copyright to this image. This means you have control over how other people use your photo. Copyright law is pretty strict, meaning that people will have to get your permission before they can copy, print, or use your work for any reason.

                                                                        

However, if you use a Creative Commons license, you give people more freedom to copy and share your photo. Some Creative Commons licenses even say it is all right to make money off of the photo, while others say it cannot be used for commercial purposes. People choose Creative Commons licenses because the licenses offer more opportunities for other people to use and share their work (Here are examples of Creative Commons licenses).

                                                                        

Finally, imagine that you want the photo to be used freely by all, without people having to request permission. You then would release the photo into the public domain, which allows others to use your photo however they want to because it is no longer protected by copyright. Copyrights don’t last forever, so works often count as “public domain” after a certain time period. Works from the U.S. government are also in the public domain.

 

-Ways you can use creative work that would constitute fair use is using a Creative Commons license. Everyone who creates their work has copyright, which means that people who want to use your information, has to give credit or ask permission but this doesn't last forever and would become a public domain where everyone can share the work freely. However, if you use Creative Commons license, your information isn't really protected but you get credit for it and give more chances to people to share.

                                                                

                                                        

Question 8: If you created a picture, poem, or video and posted it online, what do you think you would do? Would you make people get your permission every time they used the work, use a Creative Commons license, or put it in the public domain? Explain your choice.

 

-Putting it on a public domain wouldn't give benefit and getting permission every time and relying on strict copyright law isn't efficient so I think I would use Creative Commons license. It gives credit to my work and helps other people to get useful information for themselves.

Warm Up

1. What do you think we mean when we talk about someone’s creative work?
-Someone's work that isn't copied and creatively thought about, such as art, writings, songs and more.

2. Have you ever used creative work you found online – for example, a photo or a poem – for personal use?

-I used creative work I found online, which were pictures and poems for a project.

 

3. When you use creative work you find online, what considerations do you make about who made it, if any?

-I choose creative work that are reliable and made professionally.

Review Question

1. What are some examples of people sharing in a rewarding way?
People who share information that are useful and don't say things that aren't true.

2. What things can you do to minimize over sharing in your own life?
Don't post personal information that can be used against you. Also we need to think before posting.

3. How can you create a positive footprint?
Share information including what people would find good use to and don't say bad things about others that aren't true.

Reflection

In digital citizen, we learned how to use internet wisely and in a 'healthy' way. With this blog, I can post what I want online and share information. But I think I need to be careful for personal information.

Experience

My Experience

It was an year ago when my friend got a new phone. The new phones back then had the ability to share what you wrote in your memo. My friends used her memo in the phone as a diary. A boy in my class asked her for the phone so he can play with new apps. Unfortunately, he saw the memo and sent it to his email. Soon, most of the boys in our school knew who my friend liked or didn't. By this experience, I thought more seriously about my information online.

Mind Reader

In the video, there was a man that was told that he was a mind reader, and few other people. The people haven't met the man before, however, surprisingly, the mind reader knew everything about them. He knew things that are suppose to be private, like credit card numbers and how much money they on what. Also, tattoos and a best friend's name. The people were all amazed by the mind reader's gift. But, it was found that everything that he had said were all on their social network.

1. How did this make you feel?
👉Before watching the video, I had no idea that someone can know your seriously private things, such as credit card numbers. Also I thought about my social networking and if I had uploaded something that can be used against me.

2. Why should you be careful online?
👉Some information you upload without thinking can be hacked and used against you.

3. What else made an impression on you?
👉 At the end, all of the people were shocked after realizing that all the mind reading information were from their SNS. It made an impression on me because it seemed like they had no idea that it can become that serious. I thought I should be more careful online.

4. My experience
👉It was an year ago when my friend got a new phone. The new phones back then had the ability to share what you wrote in your memo. My friends used her memo in the phone as a diary. A boy in my class asked her for the phone so he can play with new apps. Unfortunately, he saw the memo and sent it to his email. Soon, most of the boys in our school knew who my friend liked or didn't. By this experience, I thought more seriously about my information online.

Case study 2 (Tommy)

A boy named Tommy wrote some private stuff in his blog, like a journal. He thought that it was going to be secret because he didn't use his real name. However, he found out that his parents have been looking through his blog because, his parents asked him things that he kept private and it was only written in his on line journal. Tommy didn't expect them to look into his blog because he wasn't his real self, but it was later found out that his friend told his parents; who talked to Tommy's parents.

1. What would you say, if anything, to your parents if you were Tommy?(Guide students to consider the various consequences of making information pubic. Specifically, students should know that such information can be searched; copied and passed on; seen by a large, invisible audience, and can be persistent or even permanent.)
-If I was Tommy, actually, I wouldn't have anything to say to his parents. The reason is, since Tommy posted his personal problems on the Internet, but didn't discuss it with his parents, I would feel sorry for keeping everything secret. Also, Tommy used a fake name; which isn't the right thing to do. In this case, Tommy didn't do anything right, so I would have nothing to say.

2. How is Tommy's parents' reading his blog similar to or different from reading a diary that he's written in a notebook or paper journal?
-I think that reading from the Internet doesn't really deal with serious privacy, because the Internet is meant for information to be shared and Tommy would've expected at least someone to see his blog. However, if his parents' read from a paper journal, the content was suppose to be kept for himself so it seem like an invasion of privacy.

3. Do you think it's fair for Tommy's parent to read the things he posted on the Internet, given that his blog is technically public? Why or why not?
-Reading Tommy's blog wasn't really fair, but I don't see the reason to not. The things posted on the blog was public and everyone that came to his blog can read them, but why not his parents? Also, parents have the right to make sure that their children are on the right track.

4. Why might Tommy's parents want to read his blog? Given these reasons, how would you react if your parents asked to read your email or text messages?
-Tommy's parents would want to read his blog, because they would be curious about how Tommy is on social life and want to make sure that he isn't disrespectful on the Internet. Given these reasons, I would show my parents my email and text messages if it's really necessary.

5. Have you ever been in a situation where your parents or someone else has asked to read something that you felt was private? If so, how did you feel? What did you do?
-My friend borrowed a classmate's phone and there was a diary section in it. My friend went into it and there were contents about who she liked. I felt guilty of looking at something private, so I just gave the phone back quickly.