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.