The Copyrights and Copywrongs

     As I have been reading this week's required readings, I have thought about what I use in my classroom. There are things that I have bought through Teacher Pay Teachers (TPT) that have enhanced my teaching from vocabulary to design thinking. They sometimes have a choice of single-use and multiple uses. If I share any of the pages, I need to be buying the multiple-use one because this is a copyright infringement. I can tell the person asking to use it where it is on the TPT site. 
    When I was looking at Creative Common (n.d.) site, I noticed that it mentioned that you could use things from The MET. I remember going into museums as a kid and that it was not allowed to take pictures of paintings or other pieces of art. When I go to museums now, I see people taking pictures, and they are posting them on Facebook or other social media page. Creative Common (n.d.) has let the works of arts be part of the public domain so that many people (including students) can see and be able to study them. This especially since they might never be able to actually to the museum.
    As I think about the videos that I use in my classroom, most of them are for education purposes. I use the "Discovery Education" site that has been approved, and I believe the district bought for the teachers. Most of You-Tube videos have a little teaser sand then it makes you pay for the movie. I know that if you want movies for an incentive, the school has to pay for film licensing. This amount for a film license is about $500- the PTA at my school has put this in their budget. 
    These four words are very important in copyright issues:

• Plagiarism- writing things that someone else wrote and then not citing it.  This  definition hopefully is not on the web because I “got it” from my head.  If I had written it down on my e-Portfolio and then used it now, I would have to cite it.  We had to do a plagiarism check when we did our Lit Reviews.  
• Copyright infringement- Bailey (2013) describes this to be any failure to observe ¨the  rights on the copyright holder.¨  An example of this could be writing a sequel to The Phantom Tollbooth without permission.  
• Attribution-¨To err is human; to forgive divine.¨  Who said this, you may ask- ​ Alexander Pope in his work from 1908.  An attribution is the identification of who  says something first.  Many people quote the Bible or many famous political leaders.
• Transformation- As I was looking at this definition or examples in places, I came across transformative art.  I thought about how I would love to paint a picture like Monet at a Painting with a Twist event.  I would be using the painting as an example (which is as a copyrighted original) and making it my own so that it would not infringe on the original artist (my favorite artist, by the way.

    As I think about this week, I have to be careful about what I am putting in my classroom curriculum. Even as a first-grade teacher, I must follow the four fair use factors that were found in the TEACH act toolkit (n.d.) The purpose and character of the use must be used for nonprofit and educational and not commercial use. The nature of the copyrighted work should be more factual and not as much for entertainment. The amount of the copyrighted work must be considered by using a smaller amount versus a large portion or of the whole work. The last factor is the effect on the market for the copyrighted work by weighing in who owns the copy or how many copies are going to be made.

References
Bailey, J. (2013, October 07). The difference between copyright infringement and plagiarism.  Retrieved from https://www.plagiarismtoday.com/2013/10/07/difference-copyright-infringement-plagiarism/

CC0. (n.d.). Retrieved from https://creativecommons.org/share-your-work/public-domain/cc0

The Original TEACH Act Toolkit. (n.d.). Retrieved from 
         https://lib.lsu.edu/services/copyright/teach/index


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