Maddy Covelli and Richie Rathsack moderated a breakout session at the Culture of Sharing Forum. They agreed to share their presentation, remixes-and-mashups-culture-of-sharing, since there are many excellent examples and we didn’t see all of them at the forum. They based much of their content on “Recut, Reframe, Recycle: Quoting Copyrighted Material in User‐Generated Video” by Pat Aufderheide and Peter Jaszi, and their presentation is a great synthesis of the issues for our environment.
This is an important area for librarians as we think about how to move into areas of information literacy like understanding copyright, but also as we think about information literacy in the context of web 2.0, where users are creating content. What support should we provide for students who want to produce content using library resources or resources out there in the world? How can we get involved in teaching and learning that has students creating these types of products, and what would we like our involvement to be?
We’re excited that our work was the basis for what seems like a really interesting discussion! We encourage people to visit centerforsocialmedia.org/fairuse for a variety of materials on fair use–the right to quote copyrighted material without permission or payment. By next fall we hope to have there two new tools: a code of best practices for fair use in online video, and a code of best practices for the teaching of media literacy (which should feature some helpful orientation on appropriate classroom and beyond-classroom use of digital files).
Comment by Pat Aufderheide — April 16, 2008 @ 5:34 am |