Copyright & Fair Use SR

5. “The number of students who can use a software program simultaneously is restricted to the number of copies the school owns”
So, does that mean that Jack cannot look on with Jill at her computer to view what this CD-ROM has to offer? Does that also mean that Mrs. Crabapple cannot project that same CD-ROM on a screen for the entire class to view. Does she have to have 20 other copies, paid for in full, stored in her desk just to cover the number of students in the class? Not sure the reasoning here makes sense.

7. I am very surprised that it is okay to post copyrighted material without permission online for students' family and/or faculty to view! We see later on, however, that it is not ok to pass along via the web copyrighted materials such as clip art. Not sure if I completely understand how one is acceptable and the other is not.

10. As I mentioned above I cannot see a huge difference in using copyrighted material on a website for student’s family and faculty without permission is ok, but creating a website and sharing that information with other teachers is not ok. To me the line seems very fine in these instances of sharing online materials with others.

11. I am shocked that this is permissible. To take an already created and aired television programs and then to turn around and edit it, not only in length of programming, but by also adding in external materials not related to the original product seems not up to standard in my eyes.

12. Again, the lines seem blurry. One could edit and insert themselves into an episode of “Frontier House,” or tape a movie (already out on DVD) and use that as a tool in a project, but are not able to take that same movie and copy it from the actual DVD version. What is the difference? They are the same movie, only one is on a DVD and one is in your television programming for the evening.

14. I find this to be crazy. It is not ok to allow kids to watch Disney DVD’s bought by the PTA at a back to school night event? This is not considered to be for entertainment use? What other use is it, if not entertainment. It wasn’t stated that any money exchanged hands for the child care services. For what other use would the PTA have bought those DVD’s?

16. There are so many twists and turns here in the Copyright Regulations. A teacher can use a machine “that defeats the copy protection on DVDs, CD-ROMs, and just about everything else,” if they are using it as classroom material. However, they cannot take that same material and that same machine and make a copy for themselves. So, I take from this a teacher can make a copy of “The Last of the Mohicans” to use in class, but is not permitted to later take that movie and watch it for her own amusement. Not realistic.

17. I am a bit surprised that it is ok to take pictures of specific streets and businesses to use in a web project. When one takes a photo of a specific person in public it is mandatory, as far as I know, to get them to sign a release for you to use that photograph of them. So, why is that not so with a specific business? That business’ name is copyrighted. Not sure I fully understand.