Class Activity: Code of best pratice in Fair Use for Media Literacy.

1. What is the difference between Media in Education vs Media Literacy Education? According to the article, Media Literacy is "the capability to access, analyze, evaluate and communicative messages in a wide variety of forms." While Media in Education is simply using the media as a means of education. 
2. What social bargain is at the heart of Fair use? According to the text the bargain is "we as a society give limited property rights to creators to encourage them to produce culture; at the same time, we give other creators the chance to use that same copyrighted material, without permission or payment, in some circumstances."
3. Why is Fair Use more important today? According to the article Fair Use in more important today because "As copyright protects more works for longer periods than ever before, creators face new challenges: licenses to incorporate copyrighted sources become more expensive and more difficult to obtain—and sometimes are simply unavailable."
   
   
4. What are the two key questions judges use to determine Fair Use? There are two questions judges ask when determining fair use. The article lists them as: "Did the unlicensed use “transform” the material taken from the copyrighted work by using it for a different purpose than that of the original, or did it just repeat the work for the same intent and value as the original?" and "Was the material taken appropriate in kind and amount, considering the nature of the copyrighted work and of the use?"
   
5. A teacher shows a movie of The Lion King and asks student to notice how the animals in the movie reflect racial stereotypes? Is this Fair Use? Why? Yes, because the copy righted material is being used for educational purposes.
6. Which principle relates most strongly to the digital story you created in class? Explain. My Digital Story would fit under the first principle I was attempting to "transform" the material to tell my own story. 
7. Are there limitations to the amount of pictures, length of music, or video that can be used in a multimedia project? This article does not seem to specify. 
8. Do you need to request permission from the original creator in order to use copyrighted material in multimedia project for school related assignment? no. 
9. Should educators try to change the policies in their school in they are not in line with Fair Use doctrine? Of course. The law is the law, right? 
10. What common myth about Fair Use surprised you the most? Probably the one that expressed that a misconception is that if one isn't making money off something then it's fair use, and it's not fair use if it's the other way around.