Response to keith week 4 MAC

Keith Lay says:
August 1, 2010 at 9:50 pm
Things get trickier, however, by the differentiation between a for profit and a not for profit school. Regardless, it is my understanding that, as far as online is concerned, any copyrighted media of any length cannot be published without explicit permission from the copyright owner. Publishing means that the work is contained and sent from the school. This is why we try to embed a video – so that it is not published by the school – but instead published by whereever the embed link points to.
In an live synchronous classroom about social media/ media literacy/ history – fair use protects the use of many clips, even in a for profit school. However, nothing can be used for an online class.
I’ve asked whether or not Wimba could enjoy the same rules as a synchronous classroom. The answer has still been NO. Still to grey of an area, legally, for a clear answer!

@ Keith,
Thank you for the differentiation for profit and not for profit. people know when they are overstepping the bounds propriety and making unearned profit of an artist’ work. Some software programs like ‘Turn it In’ helps a teacher or some other publishers detect when plagiarism or copyright issues have been violated. wimba is a copyrighted material that cannot be made available to the public without the permission of FSO. this is a personal opinion anyway.