To start things off, the topics being discussed in the first week of this class gave me a much better understanding of using the World Wide Web in general. In all actuality, I found the lesson on what constitues a copyright the most clear. Before reading up on it, I did not know the basis for which one can use copyrighted material. Only one of the following must apply when one uses a copyrighted work: 1. user is also copyright owner, 2. copyright owner has given permission to the user in the form of writing, 3. material is in the public domain.
One thing that was a treat for me was the Disney Copyright video. Not only was it witty in terms of the collective characters used, but for the purpose it was used for. During the video I was thinking to myself, "Doesn't this count as copyright ingringement." This was because they were using clips from another company's movies. However, I understood why this was not the case when the video was coming to a closure. This is due to the fact that the video was being used for *educational* purposes. Thus, I truly enjoyed the video and the lesson.
Link to "Disney Copyright video": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CJn_jC4FNDo
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