- Copyright
The exclusive right given by law to authors, composers or publishers to sell, reproduce or publish a work during a stated period of time. It is a form of protection for works, such as novels and journal articles, which result from the skill and labour of a creator, and for other subject matter which results from the investment of a producer, such as a film. (Mortimer, 2001, p. 50)
- Exceptions
- Exceptions
- Unwritten ideas,
- General facts,
- News of the day,
- Individual political speeches (a collection of speeches are protected),
- Govt. official texts, law reports & proceedings (not commercially published),
- Public domain material (copyright term has expired)
- Author’s Rights
- To reproduce the work in any manner or form
- To publish the work if it has not been published before
- To perform the work in public
- To broadcast the work
- To cause the work to be transmitted in a diffusion service
- To make an adaptation of the work
(NOTE: Author/creator owns copyright but can belong to a third party)
- Copyright authorship
- How much may you copy?
- ‘Fair dealing’ – not defined in the law
- Consider context and size in relation to whole work – general guide:-
- 10% or 1 chapter of a book
- 1 article from a journal issue;
- A full case study or law report (not only 10% of it)
- Reflection
In today’s lesson we learnt about Copyright and used an application (app) called TodaysMeet. The copyright law of South Africa governs copyright, the right to control the use and distribution of artistic and creative works, in the Republic of South Africa. It is embodied in the Copyright Act, 1978 and its various amendment acts, and is administered by the Companies and Intellectual Property Commission in the Department of Trade and Industry. Each country has their own copyright laws, although I am not sure that all citizens are fully aware of those laws and how they affect us as individuals, in an age where we have almost instantaneous access to information of all types. Students and scholars need to pay particular attention to copyright laws when doing research.
The second part of the lesson focused on a chat platform app for educators and learners. TodaysMeet is an app which educators can use to create a virtual classroom. Students can join easily join, without the need to register. Fundamentally, the app enhances classrooms by making them virtual. It enables discussions and empowers students who may have been too shy to speak out loud in class, by giving them the ability to share their thoughts and opinions on various topics. The app also allows for a discussion without the participants needing to be located in the same location. Our lecturer posted questions which the class answered in the chatroom. The one shortcoming of the app was that it did not allow us to send images, videos or website links to each other.
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