Blog Post: Week 2 Blog Post-Diary of an Internet Pirate
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Kris, amazing post!! You inspired me to write this response. I hope you find it relevant to what you have written.
Just the other day I was photocopying a resource for student use. While doing so I was drawn to the copyright license documents posted above the photocopier. Where else would they choose to post these but right where we are doing the photocopying. It has been a while since I actually read these, but was drawn to do so in relation to our discussions this week. While doing so my thoughts turned to wondering if I had already photocopied my quota of that resource. I don’t know about you but I do not keep track of how many pages I have copied. As Kris found throughout her week, I may or may not have been breaking the law.
Copyright laws are a function of our everyday lives. I wanted to sign a student up for Kurzweil so that he could be a more successful learner, the discussion came down to copyright and infringement laws based on how many students may be using the same text book license, even though we already have purchased enough hard copies of the text for the required student to text ratio. I started talking about what open resources may be available to use with this student, still need to do more research on this.
It comes back to wanting the best for our students. To meet our students’ needs we need to use resources, to get resources there are times when we have to pay large amounts of money to do so. Thank goodness for the production of open educational resources, creative commons and copy left, for we are in an age where less and less money seems to be available for the purchase of up-to-date resources. Of course we have to make sure we are clear on the license attributed to the resource, whether it is copyleft or creative commons, and use it appropriately.
Blog Link: http://krisslearnsonline.weebly
Kris, amazing post!! You inspired me to write this response. I hope you find it relevant to what you have written.
Just the other day I was photocopying a resource for student use. While doing so I was drawn to the copyright license documents posted above the photocopier. Where else would they choose to post these but right where we are doing the photocopying. It has been a while since I actually read these, but was drawn to do so in relation to our discussions this week. While doing so my thoughts turned to wondering if I had already photocopied my quota of that resource. I don’t know about you but I do not keep track of how many pages I have copied. As Kris found throughout her week, I may or may not have been breaking the law.
Copyright laws are a function of our everyday lives. I wanted to sign a student up for Kurzweil so that he could be a more successful learner, the discussion came down to copyright and infringement laws based on how many students may be using the same text book license, even though we already have purchased enough hard copies of the text for the required student to text ratio. I started talking about what open resources may be available to use with this student, still need to do more research on this.
It comes back to wanting the best for our students. To meet our students’ needs we need to use resources, to get resources there are times when we have to pay large amounts of money to do so. Thank goodness for the production of open educational resources, creative commons and copy left, for we are in an age where less and less money seems to be available for the purchase of up-to-date resources. Of course we have to make sure we are clear on the license attributed to the resource, whether it is copyleft or creative commons, and use it appropriately.