Copyright

That had to be the worst read yet in terms of jargon. Why can't people write stuff that is plain, simple, concise, and written in short sentences in stead of wordy paragraphs that loose most of us mid way through? And what ever happened to bullet points???

For the most part I had some idea about copyright legalities but those really came to me from the Librarian and Technology teacher or when I produced my own photography. It was really hard for me to read, and read, and read all those sites listed without examples or a Q/A format. I'm learning that for me to understand a lot of this computer stuff I need to be in a room of people collaborating instead of by myself.

So basically what I got out of the copyright reading was this.
Keeping It Legal states: Teachers CAN make copies of an article from a magazine, newspaper or a page from a book for use in class to support teaching a concept or idea, but they CANNOT make copies of the whole book or workbook for the entire class to use. They must buy them. I agree with that!

The most confusing of all the sites was Copyright Bay - maybe it was my computer but I only seemed to bring up small pieces of information when I clicked around. I like the visual creativity to the site but I found I did not get out of it what I had hoped. The one morsel I did extract was that copyright (creative ownership) was something that people have been working to posses by law since as far back as Medieval Europe. Authors, poets, and philosophers believe that they had sole ownership (copyright) to their intellectual thoughts, prose, and written text. Indeed these were the Great Thinkers of the time.

Still trying to figure out my students can use images from the web in projects, let me have another look. Yep, they can as long as it is temporary and not published on the web or a network. That was taken from Keeping It Legal.

Wowza, I did get something out of what I read, course I had to keep going back and rereading. Still confussed about a large portion of the copyright laws but I do know where to access the informaion once I find a Lawyer to go over it with me in simple terms maybe even with pictures and examaples.