Copyright Definitions

  1. Copyright:
    Copyright is a legalized law in the United States, that gives a creator ownership and control of their published product like; a drawing, painting, musical piece, sculpture, literature, etc. Ownership can be bought from the creator.
  2. Public Domain:
    When the original creator’s project or product produced is released to the public to be used by other people. The result is not completely covered by copyright law but still prevents others from claiming it for themselves and selling it as their creation.
  3. Fair Use in Education:
    Fair use in education allows outlets, education facilities, and others to use a creator’s product/creation for informative purposes to the public. This does not obstruct copyright law.
  4. Creative Commons:
    This is another form of copyright law with more freedom given to the creator to share their work/creation with the public. Creative Commons is a non-profit organization that gives a cc liscense to a creators work.
  5. Attribution:
    This is giving credit to the creator tagged with their work when someone other than the creator is using their work for whatever the purpose could be.

Disney Copyright Video

Today in class we watched a video about copyright laws using movie clips from Disney. Initially, the video wasn’t what I expected, which made it a little more difficult to digest and understand as I was taking notes. However, I believe the video followed copyright laws. Even though the video we watched was 10 minutes long, and as the law describes for copyright use, people can only use three minutes of film that doesn’t belong to them. Though, there were 27 video sources, multiplying that by three would’ve concluded the video to be 81 minutes long. This is why, I think they did not use the full three minutes, and if my memory serves correctly, people can only use up to three minutes of the copyrighted film, but it doesn’t say that they are required to use the full three minutes. Some clips showed were brief and only used a minimum of ten or so times for only a few seconds. That is why I believe this video follows the copyright law so long as it continues to be fair use.

http://www.teachertube.com/viewVideo.php?video_id=11350