CSULA Fall 2018. Reflection Post #14

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Copyright Law in Education

Copyright is defined as a government-enforced monopoly that reserves the exclusive permission to engage in certain activities to the copyright holder, prohibiting the public rom engaging in these activities without proper authorization. In our weekly readings we learned about the importance of ensuring that any material we use from the internet is either with permission from the author and/or to ensure that images and any information obtained from the internet is labeled for reuse or use without restrictions. For instance, when making images online engine searches we must click on tools, then select "labeled for reuse" in order to ensure that we are not violating any copyright laws...even in the education field..."As Harvard Law professor Larry Lessig has written, modern copyright law has made criminals of us all".  He was certainly referring to TRIPS (Trade Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights) where full force of copyright protection is granted automatically from the moment a creative work is expressed in any medium whether or not the creator of that work wants copyright protection or not. Meanwhile, the Internet continues to evolve, yet we, the public and educators struggle with making use of these wonderful improvements. Even "fair use" is being threatened with the recently implementation of DMCA (U.S. Digital Millennium Copyright Act) in which educators, in most cases, can no longer legitimately claim "fair use". 





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