Thing 6 Code of Best Practices in Fair Use (Media Literacy)

Wow - OK this lesson was really worthwhile! I wanted to discuss it with others, so am blogging the samples from the last article so I can have my friends tonight read it:) (OK - so I don't google doc yet). Because I am not in a classroom, I haven't dealt much with copyright, but since I just used Simpson in my last Blog, I was glad to take in this lesson. I wondered if maybe an English teacher (Coil) and I could collaborate and make a quick presentation at one of our staff meetings this coming year. Especially sharing some of the last lesson's sites. Thanks for this lesson!!!
• Criticism & Commentary
A book publisher used several stills from the famous 1963 Zapruder footage of President Kennedy's assassination for the historical book Six Seconds in Dallas. Time Inc., the owner of the footage, sued the book publisher for copyright infringement. In Time Inc. v. Bernard Geis Associates, the court ruled that the publisher's use of the stills was "fair and reasonable," in part because the use was based on a factual and historical news event.3
• Parody
An episode of the TV cartoon "Family Guy" made fun of comedian Carol Burnett's image and signature characters from her 1960's comedy variety show. In Carol Burnett v. Twentieth Century Fox, the court ruled that the show's use was fair, in part because the "Family Guy" episode was designed to parody Burnett as a public figure, using a relatively small percentage of copyrighted material, and would not substitute for the original in any market.4
• News reporting
The Washington Post newspaper used three brief quotations from Church of Scientology texts that were posted on the Internet. In Religious Technology Center v. Pagliarina, the court found the use to be fair, in part because the newspaper excerpted only a small portion of the work and the purpose was for news commentary.5
• Art
American artist Jeff Koons used a portion of a designer photo advertisement (a model's legs in Gucci sandals) amongst a collection of iconic images in his painting, "Niagara." In Blanch v. Koons, the court held that the painting's use of the copyrighted images was a transformative fair use, in part because it commented on fashion and consumer culture.6
• Scholarship and Research
A biographer of author Richard Wright quoted from six of Wright's unpublished letters and ten unpublished journal entries. In Wright v. Warner Books, Inc., the court found that the biographer's use was fair, in part because the biographer's purpose was to educate and inform the public, and his use constituted less than 1% of Wright's unpublished letters. 7
A researcher at a nonprofit foundation used quotations from an unpublished, historical literary work in her academic presentation. In Sundeman v. The Seajay Society, the court ruled that the researcher's use was fair and noted that the work was transformative and was used solely for the purpose of scholarly analysis. 8
• Time-shifting
A major electronics manufacturer developed a video tape recording device that allowed the consumer to "time-shift"—record a complete TV program in real-time and hold the show for a later viewing. Several major film studios filed a copyright infringement suit against the electronics manufacturer claiming the device could be used for copyright infringement. In 1984's Sony v. Universal Studios (aka the Betamax case), the Supreme Court held that time-shifting with a VCR qualified as fair use. The courts noted that the private, non-commercial home taping of free television programs for later viewing was not infringing and did not hurt the market value of the copyrighted material.9
• Search Engines
A Google search engine turned the photos on a subscription-only website into thumbnail images for its search results. In Perfect 10 v. Amazon.com et al, the court ruled that Google's use of thumbnail photos was "highly transformative," since the search engine changed the image's original purpose of entertainment and aesthetics into providing Google's users with links to images.10

Thing 5 Continued

My creation
Originally uploaded by JoyceCawthon

I loved making the posters etc. at Big Huge Labs. So this poster will say "What's missing? Are YOU on track to graduate!!!!!"

Thing 5 Mashups

So I established flickr, and went to the create your own cartoons and did 4 of them for school next year. But when I tried to upload them to flickr - the carton host linked to say that he ran out of money to provide server space, so I couldn't upload my cartoons:) But I did right click and save the images on my hard drive at home. Since I am in the Guidance Office, I made my cartoons reflect timing of schedule changes, college applications and credit recovery.
I really believe the students will read my notices this way! Way cool!!

Thing 4

St C sailboat
Originally uploaded by JoyceCawthon

So I created a flickr account and am posting a picture. Tagged, etc. But this is getting confusing; I now have a hotmail account for my facebook, a yahoo account for flicker and a gmail account for Picsas. And we really use charter at home and godfrey-lee at school: OMG!!

Thing 4 - Photos and Videos

I am not too sure I want to create Flickr when i have two Picasa webablums already. So I am hoping Ron will approve my Picasa experience instead. I use Picasa because our students and staff can download high def pictures without paying anything additional. My experince with the others is that you can download a "poor" quality resolution, but must pay ($.25) to get a better quality photo. I have two albums, one personal and one for Lee High School: http://picasaweb.google.com/JoyceVCawthon

This is a picture from my personal album of what I did this week - whitewater rafting the New river in West Virginia. it was a bit extreme for me - i have done 'float' trips before - but not level 4 and 5 rapids. But hey - we are all about new experiences and learning more about life:) I learned I had a louder scream than my husband thought ;)

If this video works, I am in the white mid sleeve shirt, just to the right of our guide (who sits in the back and steers and yells at us!!) Notice we are all wearing helmets? My friend Chris sitting across from me flipped off the raft and surfaced under the raft!!!! Not fun!

Thing 3 - 7 1/2

So watching 7 1/2, hmmmmmmm, since my principal/superintendent started us working on #1 last year - teach with the end in mind - decide the essential question first! - I guess really MY easiest is a combination of #2, #7 and #71/2. Way back I realized I loved teaching/sharing fun things; like geocaching, blogging, texting, listing on ebay or craig's list, photosharing (picasa), etc. Just last night I walked 2 50 something adults through the process of sending their cell phone pictures to their home emails. And I had them laughing (and holding their own cells) while they learned. There is so much out there to learn!! And it is fun. The hardest thing for me is #3 - specifically the problem of balancing technology time with face to face people time. I think we all can spend way too much time in front of the computer and not enough time walking with friends, sitting on the sofa and holding hands and talking, or just dropping by to give someone a hug. Students I connect with by facebook or email response - but when I drop by their house in the summer - Wow - they light up. So I get frustrated between choices of things to put my time into.

23 Things- The First Thing

So this is the start, just trying to understand my kids when they are talking amongst themselves, never really hope to be a 'techie' :)
Had a older blog that I stopped posting to, was concentrating on my facebook account. So back to blogging!