We make use of a lot of material which are protected by copyright during lessons quite frequently. Though we teachers are allowed to use or deal with reasonable portions of copyright works in a fair manner for teaching in a specified course of study, it is still hard to tell what is the reasonable portion. Sometimes we are quite confused about this.
When we have to post anything, eg, a magazine or newspaer article online to share with our students, we may be in breach with the copyright law. So, we can't replace all the hardcopy with the softcopy.
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Hi this is Trinity and we are assigned in the same group of the blog so we are supposed to comment on each other's blog and that counts in our grades. so here I am to give the first comment on your blog. well I can't agree more with your ideas. I am confused during my teaching process as well for the copy right problems.
ReplyDeleteHi, I'm Margaret. I think it is quite hard as a teacher to determine what can be used and what cannot. For example if we take something from a newspaper article and show it to our students, how do we cite that and give the author credit. How different is it if students use it within their assignments? If it is just material that students need to learn, then why is it such a big problem with copyright? Does taking material written from another author necessarily mean bad?
ReplyDeleteCopyright issues are less strigent in Mainland as the authority hasn't had a firm grasp on this matter. But this is changing gradually towards better protection, meaning that teaching resources are going to be protected. Maybe this would also lead to better quality of teaching materials.
ReplyDeleteMaybe try to follow copyright regulation, meanwhile, focus on teaching and students' needs. We cannnot assure everything is perfect~
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