Looking through Teacher Tube I found our dear old friends The Animaniacs in this video
I looked up the run time of an Animaniacs episode and they ran for 22 minutes. This video takes 2 minutes from an episode...so that's only 10%, which is what is allowed to take from a video. Now, the man in the video did say something about..."unless it's the only 10% that matters..." And this video takes the main song from the episode...so maybe that will come into question when this teacher is taken to court. But really, I think it is okay. This teacher stuck to the 10% rule and was using it to help her students study for the test.
I also found this Math Video which is probably the WORST video I've ever seen. Really really poorly made...but...haha. Oh well. They used lots of songs; however, each song was not played for longer than I'd say ten seconds. That is well under the limit of 10% of a song. They also used a lot of pictures. In the "Fair Use" vidoes, he said you can use pictures but usually not more than 5 from the same artist. I'm pretty sure the pictures in this awful video stayed within those guidelines. The video also had a video clip from a Family Guy episode, but only used roughly 30 seconds of a 25 minute show. So, that was good.
One thing I wondered about was citing all the things used in the videos. Does the teacher have to have a list of citations at the end? There were no citations in this video and I know a lot of song clips and pictures were used that could have citations. So..that was a point of interest that I'll tell the judge.
But really. That last video was so awful. Really painful to watch. hahaha. So you don't have to watch it if you don't want. Just atke my word on it.
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12 years ago
I swear I already commented on this but apparently it didn't work. Oh well. I had a question about this too though - if a creator of something stays within copyright law boundaries (i.e. not using more than 30 seconds of a song or three minutes of a video) do they have to cite their source at the end? It seems to me like they would need to but neither of the videos I watched included any sort of works cited page or bibliography. Hmm ...
ReplyDeleteTo answer your questions, yes, they should definitely have a works cited at the end -- just like you would for a paper when you have a reference list at the end. The same idea. A lot of people don't do this, but we need to teach our students that even when they grab stuff on the Internet, they need to keep track of where they got it and then give credit.
ReplyDeletefull credit on the assignment!