YES YOU CAN Use that Copyrighted Work!
A presentation about Copyright for the young, savvy, and postliterate
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A presentation about Copyright for the young, savvy, and postliterate
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By Diane Daly
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| _When you create something, aren't you proud of your work when you
spend a lot of time and energy creating it? How about that social
studies report you finally finished, that poem for your Mom that
made her smile, that cool logo you came up with for your soccer
team, the great song you wrote for the school play, or even your
journal that you don't "have" to do but you enjoy it so much and
it's special to you? Well, all these are your creations and you'd
probably be pretty upset if someone just copied any of them without
your permission. That's where copyright comes in. (From CopyrightKids.org)
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There are a number of lessons about Copyright for young people on the internet. Most that I have found assume a tone similar to the excerpt above, teaching young people to respect Copyright rather than question it, and to be "pretty upset" at the concept of one user interacting creatively with the work of another. I have not found any resources on Copyright directed at youth that support work reuse, collaboration, or sharing, nor anything encouraging young people to assert control over Copyright, whether as creators today or as decision-makers with further impact in the future.
Meanwhile, interactions between young people and information are already radical. These savvy young users are quickly growing jaded with the Copyright messages they've been fed, namely, NO, NO NO. I believe they need a guide to Copyright that says YES.
What's more, I believe our society needs these young, expert navigators of our information explosion to create and reuse information as boldly and radically as they choose. Youth who remix, mashup, and reuse information in so many other dynamic ways deserve to find their own places within the larger context of resistance to "Copyright Culture."
It is commonly stated in LIS that the rhetoric of ownership has achieved too great a hold over our society’s information; that copyright terms are too long, and many have lost sight of the benefits of reemploying artistic and scientific works and icons for our culture as a whole. A lively aspect of contemporary discourse on Copyright considers whether Creative Commons licenses, vigorous stretching of Fair Use boundaries, and even piracy are ways that "Copyright Culture" can be resisted and ultimately changed.
Why shouldn't young people learning the rules also learn that we don't all agree with the rules as they currently stand?
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Sources
Copy of Presentation Credits:
The majority of the animations in this presentation were gratefully reused from:
Turai, Balázs. (30 March 2010.) Inserting Animations in Prezi. Retrieved November 15, 2011 from http://prezi.com/dpqe5z-tpuqb/academy-inserting-animations-in-prezi/ . Copyright held by Prezi Inc.; Instructions and permission for reuse granted by Prezi Inc. co-founder Adam Somlai-Fischer on http://prezi.com/learn/looping-and-zooming/.
Other animations from: http://www.animationlibrary.com/
Website Credits:
Header image from http://inspirationspeaker.podbean.com
FA©E Kids subcommittee of The Copyright Society of the U.S.A. Copyright Kids! Visited October 18, 2011 at http://www.copyrightkids.org/
Other Relevant Resources
Berkman Center for Internet and Society. Youth and Media. Visited October 18, 2011 at http://youthandmedia.org/wiki/Main_Page
Dresang, E. T. (1999). Radical Change: Books for Youth in a Digital Age. New York: H.W. Wilson.
Kessler, S. (October 27, 2010.) 6 Free Sites for Creating Your own Animations. Mashable Tech. Retrieved October 18th, 2011 from http://mashable.com/2010/10/27/create-animations-online/.
Mason, M. (2008). The pirate's dilemma: How youth culture reinvented capitalism. New York: Free Press. Downloaded on October 21, 2011 from http://thepiratesdilemma.com/download-the-book
Moulton, J. (2007). Cite it right: online citation tools and formal citations. George Lucas Foundation, 2011. Retrieved October 21, 2011 from http://www.edutopia.org/cite-it-right-online-citation-tools-and-formal-citations
Palfrey, J., Gasser, U., Simun, M., & Barnes, R. F. (May 01, 2009). Youth, Creativity, and Copyright in the Digital Age. International Journal of Learning and Media, 1, 2, 79-97. Retrieved October 18, 2011 from http://dash.harvard.edu/handle/1/3128762
Russell, C., Buttler, D. K., & American Library Association. (2004). Complete copyright: An everyday guide for librarians. Chicago: American Library Association.
Samuels, E. B. (2000). The illustrated story of copyright. New York: Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Press.
Vaidhyanathan, S. (2001). Copyrights and copywrongs: The rise of intellectual property and how it threatens creativity. New York: New York University Press.
Yar, M. (January 01, 2008). The rhetorics and myths of anti-piracy campaigns: criminalization, moral pedagogy and capitalist property relations in the classroom. New Media & Society, 10, 4, 605-623.
Postscript:
This website and presentation should not be confused with "Yes, You Can Use Copyrighted Materials!" by Renee Hobbs of the Media Education Lab at Temple University. The similarity in naming between Hobbs' slideshow and my presentation and website is purely accidental; I created mine two years later than hers, but with no awareness of hers.
I like to think that we used the same opening phrase in our works because we both support similar concepts - positive and proactive engagement with copyright law - only with different audiences in mind. Her excellent work is available at
http://www.slideshare.net/reneehobbs/yes-you-can-use-copyrighted-materials
YES YOU CAN Use that Copyrighted Work! by Diane Daly is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 United States License.
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