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Thursday, June 15, 2006
Creative Commons: A New Tool for Schools - Howard Pitler, Innovate Online
A few years ago, I was teaching a middle school class on movie making. One requirement of the course was an assignment that required students to design a movie including a soundtrack that suited the mood of the video. I had encouraged students to use a few online sites for copyright-free music, such as Freeplay Music or GarageBand, to create their own music. One of my students showed me an early cut of his video, and I noticed that the music he had used for the soundtrack was a remix of songs by some of his favorite artists. We had discussed copyright guidelines in class, and the student thought that he was within "fair use" because he only used 10-second clips from a number of songs and sampled other sounds into the mix. Since the videos were going to be shown outside of our class and entered in a statewide technology contest and since he also had altered the original music, I advised the student to get permission to use those clips from the copyright owner. The story could have ended happily with the record company's agreeing to allow him to use and modify the music. Instead, my student received a very nice but pointed letter telling him in no uncertain terms that the record company would not allow him to use its music, even for the purpose he had described.
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