Copyrights

We were assigned the task of watching at least two items to check the legitimacy of the material and to see if they were within copyrights. I watched the copyright for educators videos and learned some things that I had never known. I did not realize that education and teaching has special copyright privileges. Able to use material without permission as long as it is for an educational purpose and they are cited correctly.

So to critique some videos I decided to go where anyone would go to find videos... youtube.com. I decided to look at an old favorite. Numa Numa. This version of the Numa Numa song does have the entire song in the video and therefore would be against the typical 30 seconds for songs. They do recognize the record label owner and even have the contains content from section to cite the owner of the label. I am not clear if this video remake has been done by the owner of the song as the song is able to be downloaded directly from this site.

The next clip was another favorite from my childhood. I used to watch tiny toons when younger and I still remember this clip using They Might be Giants Song Particle Man. As can be seen from the youtube notice, they did not have permission to use the entire song and therefore the song has been removed due to copyright infringement. The video has not been removed though as it is shorter than 3 minutes. The rules to copyrighting are extremely confusing. But I feel that I have a better grasp of it now.