Sunday, March 7, 2010

Copyright Assignment Video 1

I wasn't sure if we were supposed to pick videos we might actually use in the classroom, so I didn't. Mormons like to put bits about the church out on the internet, but most of the time I'm pretty sure they are breaking copyright, like with this video. It is a series of images of Joseph Smith, with musical accompaniment. They post a link to another video about the person who arranged the music, but that isn't a citation, nor does it say they have permission to use it. If the composer has given permission for his work to be used for public display, then the music isn't breaking copyright, but that is unclear.
The images are mostly pictures I recognize that the church uses, which means they are copyrighted. This person would have had to go to numerous people to get permission to use thees images. Even if they are allowed to used these images for public display, they aren't cited anywhere in the video or on the page, so no one knows who the artists are.
If this was made for a purely educational setting and not put on public display, then under fair use,the pictures probably aren't breaking copyright, if there aren't more than 3 from the same collection or author. But they aren't cited, so who would know. And they used all of the music, not just 3 minutes of it, so unless the composer has given permission for all of it to be used, that is breaking copyright, as is the fact that the composer isn't cited.

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