Thing 9 - Creative Commons

I gave a copyright quiz to my students in my Microsoft Office class because we do a unit on netiquette. I don't usually cover copyright laws too much because I don't know what they are! I have a chart that lists the medium and the law that pertains to it. I try to refer to it and have them understand they are not allowed to take another person's work. The students are freshmen through seniors. They did a poor job on the quiz because they are under the impression that as long as they find information from a reliable source, they are allowed to credit it and that is as far as they need to go. They did alright on the few questions I asked about Fair Use. We watched the YouTube Fair(y) Tale Use video. I thought it was quite annoying, but the students enjoyed it and we were able to have a conversation about some information presented in the video. They were asked about Fair Use as it relates to a teacher taping a news broadcast at home off of the tv and allowing students to watch it every year. They thought this was okay. This violates Fair Use because she should either buy the news broadcast from the company or get permission to use it year after year. They also did poorly on the questions pertaining to buying software. The school district needs to purchase license for how many computers they wish to use the program. That would be copyright infringement to install it on all the computers without the purchasing the licensing. Students also thought it would be Fair Use to create a senior video and include popular songs downloaded. This would violate Fair Use because they did not get permission nor are they using the video for educational purposes.