MAC_Week1_ Comment #2

 @Mark Dohn Blog text.

I have just viewed the most comprehensive collection of videos concerning copyright I have ever seen. Apart from being amazed by the work that is available on YouTube (I swear, just as soon as I finish my degree I going to spend some serious time surfing videos!) I am struck by how copyright is the best example of how much of a social and cultural transformation we are living through. I find it dynamic, exciting, and fearful all at the same time. For my part, I have played it safe and have had students create their own work. I feel quite justified when I hear independent film makers just as fearful of copyright as I am! But now having a more solid understanding of the entire horizon on the topic, I will be moving my students into creative commons for music, mixes and mashups. “Good Copy, Bad Copy” was amazing! It captures the changing views of culture, society, and creative expression on a global level. As an educator, seeing how certain documentaries are no longer available do to licensing fees I’m horrified. It is a crime to let business dictate the availability of historical documents! One of the most important quotes from the film came at the end when one man openly asked if we should continue to restrict people’s access to information, or give them full access to allow them to learn and gain a much deeper understanding of the context? I’m all for full access.

My Comment to @ Mark Dohn.

Hi Mark! I agree with you we need to know more about the copyright law and other alternatives, as creative common licenses. To guide our students and ourselves on how to use materials which make us capable to create and enrich our projects. I also loved the movie “Good Copy, Bad Copy”. It was amazing to see how different countries manage their copyright laws and how people use others’ work without the will to demerit or infringe someone’s work.

I want to share with you that I had to ask permission to many of the authors I am going to use for my ARP and there were only two articles that I had to dismiss since the Journal that published them was asking me to pay them between $400 and $500 dollars per article and that was a lot of money for me.  So I decided to put them aside. I think that copyright is about asking permission as Professor Joe Bustillos punctuates in his video about the 10 Myths of copyright and also to have the money they ask if that is the case.