Fair use has always intrigued me; what can I use, how much can I use, who is off limits? These questions still hold true to me after watching the videos. I have a better idea now of what is expected and what to do. During the EMDT courses I have tried to use as much of my own work as possible, mainly because it was relevant to what I was working on at the time. I have enjoyed learning about and using the Creative Commons materials. I now use this information when teaching my students about copyright and doing things the right way.
It saddened my heart to know that so many historical works will no longer be available because of the cost to re-license the material. It seems to me that the laws should be changed to incorporate the use of historic pieces into other media even after the copyright has expired. Being a history major I see the need for that historic content to be available to the people rather than in a private collection somewhere. We do need to preserve and use our historical events assets to keep our children and their children up to date on our history and legacy.
Sonja Sprague's Response
Dwayne, I believe the film maker’s statement for best practices in fair use documentation that was shown to us via video has helped us some by us being able to use the copy written material for quoting for critique, quoting pop culture to make a point, capturing incidental material and using historical material to make a point (www.Centerforsocialmedia.org/fairuse). With that being said, my opinion is that we are creating a library of chaptered media material using only incidental material to prove a point. In turn students may no longer want to sit and watch a 60-minute video to prove a point in our increasingly fast paced society. We may be good here.
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