In class this week, we discussed copyright. I learned so much about the subject, and it was really interesting because it is something I have never thought about before. I didn’t think teachers had to worry about copyright when collecting materials to use in the classroom. For example, I had no idea that if a teacher is providing a class with a copyright-protected work, it must only be a short excerpt from said work. An example of a short excerpt is one chapter from a book, or up to 10 per cent of something like a musical score, literary work, or audio recording. This was really interesting because I used to participate in school musicals when I was elementary-aged, and we did productions like Alice in Wonderland and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. Knowing what I know now, those scripts were not free. The teacher did not just find the script and score online and print them out. They were definitely copyright-protected works that cost money to use.
Amy 🙂