The video A Fair(y) Use Tale was an awesome presentation that I believe will truly captivate my students next year on the use of copyright. We complete a three unit on copyright and I cannot wait to use this video. In viewing, I thought of a multitude of questions that I can have prepared for my students to answer during the viewing.
It is so ironic that this issue of copyright is in such a broad arena yet hits so close to home for my community. It was here in Richardson, TX just last year a group of people was caught as one of the largest suppliers of my metroplex of bootleg cds and dvds. They had more than $300,000 of equipment when they were busted. Yet each day, as I visit my local stores, countless young men hang in front of businesses selling their cds and dvds (all bootleg). Kids today don’t see the seriousness of how copyright is affecting their lives.
I love to see the expression on my students faces when they realize that it is illegal to copy the material of someone else and also illegal to purchase it. Look at Limewire.
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