Blog1: Week 3 Copyright

Week 3 in my Introduction to Educational Technology class had some really relevant information for adequate internet user, and for individual who use different social networking tools. This week some information that was present dealt with the issues of copyright. Copy is basically the rights that are given to owners of intellectual properties like music, book, movie, videos, photos and even ideas, to control their properties where other can’t use it without permission. I have previously learned about copyright but it think it’s sometimes important to go over this information to be reminded of it since it usually goes over our head sometimes. Thanks to Fair use though, we can use copyright material under certain situations, without permission from the owners. For example people are allowed to use 30 seconds of any audio without permission, and Universities and students are also place on the Fair use since they use other people's material for education purposes. An interesting fact to know though is that those laws of copyright sometimes do not apply to other people in other countries.

Copyright is very relevant to my nature of work. In the business/finance field people are steadily doing PowerPoint or video presentation which sometimes consist of audio, picture or someone else idea. As you can see it’s very important for people in my field to be aware of these things in order to not break the laws, and stay out of trouble. I will also like to open up my own business one day and plan on taking advantage of the copyright laws so someone else does use replicate my business name or logo.

To get a better understanding of copyright I found this interesting video which was created by Walt Disney Studios. It’s a very interesting video since it used many of its famous characters to explain the meaning of copy. Disney is also a company known for dealing with many copyright issues because of it character, movies, logos and etc so I could understand why they would create something like this to inform people. Take a look and enjoy the video.