I find it super interesting that we read about copyright but there is no specific class taught on copyright or plagiarism. It seems kinda funny, because most the time I feel expected to just know.
For instance, I was talking with another class mate about copyright but in a different manner. Copyrighting your own work, like is it right to use work from one class and use it in another even if it is a semester apart? No, it is not. But like, who is there to say?
Also, this just happened today. We are doing a group project for another class, and we have made a Facebook page for our project/event. I posted a video on Facebook, and five minutes later I get a message saying that the music may be copyrighted material and saying that I need to send a request to be able to have my video published. Like, hum, what? When did Facebook try to control what I upload, and for one they don't do that if you have a shared video via youtube, but if you upload directly to your site it supposivley doesn't like that.
So, like how do I prove to Facebook that we have rights to this song that we put on this video? WHO KNOWS!!!
It a fair use to not quite understand how copyright, or piracy, or plagiarism particularly works. But in all fairness, it changes all the time! New equipments, new technologies, new high top market material.
Like the article mentions, it i a cultural moment, its all in the systems and how more people find ways around them than follow them usefully.
Monopoly
