Copyright Assignment

I know copyright is important to protect the people who have produced things, but to be honest I think copyright laws are kind of annoying. I think teachers already have so much to do. Then to require them to only show 10% of a movie or song seems like it just adds to the headache of everything a teacher already has to do.

I am glad that teachers have options such as Flickr with a creative commons search. The search brings up quite a few hits. I was able to find a few good pictures of WWI trenches. I found Wikimedia a bit difficult to use though. I tried to find an example of music played by hippies and I couldn't find several songs I searched. I also couldn't find an image of the famous Kent State shooting. I didn't really like freeplay music that much either. None of the searches I made except Beethoven had any hits. It looked like the website had lots of options of different sound clips, but they didn't look like they were very recognizable or meaningful clips. Maybe I'm just a "negative nancy" (term said by Courtney Yates on CBS's Survivor: China, aired September 2007).

On TeacherTube I searched for a video about the holocaust. I found this one:

http://www.teachertube.com/viewVideo.php?video_id=106062

The teacher who put up the video (a collage of pictures) did not cite where he or she got any of the pictures. At the end of the video she showed a quotation. She atleast attributed the quotation to Anne Frank, but she did not state when or where Anne Frank wrote or said the quotation.

I looked up another video on teacher tube that again was a collage of pictures. The author of the video did not tell where she got any of the pictures from. The author also put up a quotation from Rosa Parks and one by Martin Luther King. The author cited that Parks and King said the quotes, but she did not say when or where the quotes were said or where the quotes were obtained from. The author also had Martin Luther King's "I Have a Dream" speech streaming in the background, but the author did not attribute it to Dr. King or say when it was given or say where she got the clip from. The author did, however, have text on the video that labeled some of the images. It seemed like those labels were written by the author herself so that is good. The url to that video is:

http://www.teachertube.com/viewVideo.php?video_id=140073&title=Martin_Luther_King_and_Civil_Rights_Movement