Wednesday, March 12, 2008

copyright

"Fair use" is the use of something that is copyrighted without paying any kind of dues to the copyright holder. This "fair use" can extend to reporting news, parody, criticism, research, and for some educational purposes. The big problem of this "fair use" is about education because it only extends to cover use of copyright material when there is not due time to contact to the copyright owner. For example, if a teacher reads something in the newspaper that morning and wants to show it to her class. I think "fair use" should extend to cover all material used to educate people in schools because this is for the good of the nation. Also, this would free up money in schools for more important investments like new facilities and more classes offered to students. Instead money has to be spent on book and copyrighted material. Also, with this the books are usually kept in high schools for at least ten years and they would not be current material to teach people with.
On the other side of this argument there is the copyright owner's side of the deal. The owner of the copyright wants to make money off this copyright because that is why they did it. They find it reasonable for teachers to pay them for using their material if there is time for them to get in contact with them.

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