Copyright and Fair Use LR

Question 19 is interesting because it explains the difference between instructional use and “fun” use. Because a yearbook is not usually for instructional purposes, it is not a fair use option to put music in the background. On “class day” at my school we had a class video prepared and I’m pretty sure nobody in our class contacted the singers in the songs we played, and we played entire songs. So, from taking this quiz, I discovered we broke copyrights. In question 19, it further explains that a certain amount of a song could be permissible, but without permission a full song is breaking copyright laws, unless we obtain permission. I find this interesting, because there are so many people that just take stuff without knowing because they don’t ask permission. I want to emphasize to my students these laws so they don’t end up getting themselves in trouble because they simply did not know that they were in the wrong.