With the incredible popularity and ease of digital mediamaking comes great responsibility. As students unlock the power of digital storytelling and media creation, they seek to incorporate music, images and video into their productions.
But it’s not as simple as just hitting up the Google.
Copyright.
Fair Use. Public Domain.
The meaning of these concepts as applied to creative work, has broadened dramatically in our digital world. Students are some of the biggest consumers and creators of work created on digital platforms, but they don’t often understand:
As you can see from the video below, users care, creators care, this class of 6th graders from Hunt Middle School cares, and they’ll tell you why you should care too. A big thank you to Kathy Hevey and her students for being willing to share their work.
We promise to cite you appropriately, every single time.
A great reminder about respecting copyright while remixing source materials in the classroom. This video was originally created in partnership with local public access station RETN.
