I already talked about some of my thoughts on the reading in Stephanie's blog. A common comment in public schools is as long as you aren't caught you are fine. Public school teachers copy, cut and paste all the time. I'm sure that if the copyright police were to look at public schools that 98% of the teachers would be in jail. Schools are underfunded and teachers have to choose between textbooks and technology. Often we view textbooks as something we can make due with and choose to buy supplemental materials we would need with new books too, but have to choose between the two.
As far as movies go, they are such a great tool for teaching. I used an episode of "The Unit" to talk about civil rights in conjunction with "To Kill a Mockingbird" I also have the students compare/contrast the book to the movie that we watch as well. Social teachers use Schindler's List to help them understand the holocaust better. The choir teacher uses different musicals to help them understand different concepts. 10% of any of these videos would be absolutely insufficient to meet the needs. Teachers won't quit until we are all in jail.
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I completely agree about the 98% of teachers breaking the law. My concern is that if all of this is such a big deal and against the law, why weren't we taught this in our undergraduate education classes??
Also, if we, as teachers, spend a ton of time worrying about the copyright laws and figuring out what is legal, what is not, how are we supposed to have time to teach???
Agreed. This is such a hard thing to debate with yourself. Of course, you wouldn't exactly be LYING to your students if you just didn't TELL them you were using something copyrighted. Have you ever had to defend anything by citing fair-use laws?
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