March 10-Digital Story #2

I never knew that by using songs that we have purchased for presentations and different things was considered copy-right. I learned a lot about the copy-right laws in class yesterday. It amazes me how many things go into it and how many things are affected by it. One thing that really surprised me that we learned about was that by showing a movie in class actually is going against copy-right.
During the lesson, I was thinking about all of the different resources that I have used for different class projects. I didn't realize that all of that time I had been going against individual's licenses and copy-right. This new knowledge will allow me to hopefully be able to get used to working with copy-right laws before I get out into an actual teaching job. I have always known that copy-right is a lot more than plagarism, but that is usually all I think of when copy-right is brought up. I will now think of all of the other tools/resources that are protected under this law.
With knowing how to create licenses for my own personal use and why I would want to, I think it is important to create one for projects that I may complete. I now know that I need to contact and get permission for a lot of the resources and tools that will be helpful in my future classroom. It will be good to know that in the future if I want to use a purchased media file (movie or music) in my classroom, I still need permission from the company. I think that it is important to allow others to edit and revamp my projects. I think that better ideas are created and brought to life when more people are involved so I would be grateful for new insights on personal projects.