DR_Scenarios

Scenarios
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In Mrs. Johnson’s Grade 4 class, students create PowerPoint slides using copyrighted images they gathered through Google to illustrate their reports on countries of the world. Mrs. Johnson likes to upload their completed slides to the school’s public website so that parents can see their children’s creative work. Another teacher tells her that students must get permission to use images in their own work. What action is fair and reasonable? SOME RESOURCES FOR FINDING DIGITAL IMAGES http://theconnectedclassroom.wikispaces.com/Digital_Images Her principal informs Mrs. Johnson that she must take down the Grade 4 Geography slides, even though her colleague, a Grade 8 teacher, has been allowed to post the work of students who created an iMovie video about stereotypes of teenagers in the media. This work weaves together students’ spoken-word poetry with various clips from TV shows and movies and images of teen celebrities found online. Does this distinction make sense or not?

Well-known educator Mr. Smithers has received a copy of Mary Miller’s lesson plans. He incorporates them directly into his widely-adopted reader on media literacy, which is used by teachers throughout the country, without asking permission. Is that fair?

 In Stan Joseph’s social studies class, a student wants to create a video tribute to John Lennon that focuses on his role in the anti-war movement of the 1960s. She wants to use images from the Internet and samples of Lennon’s music in her project. Is this fair? Now assume that the student has contacted the record company to request permission and received no answer. Should she be able to use the music anyway?  Next semester, this same student wants to create a music video of “Imagine” that uses images of recent news coverage of the war in Iraq intercut with video footage of Vietnam. Is this a fair use? What are the considerations would influence your decision? Another student has created a music video of “Strawberry Fields Forever” that features teens lip-synching and playing air guitar along with footage of a teen couple walking hand-in-hand in a graveyard. Is this a fair use? Why or why not?  Is it appropriate to broadcast any of these videos via the closed circuit TV system in the district? On local public access cable TV? Should students be advised to (or not to) place their work on You Tube? Should the students be able to submit their programs to a local film festival? Why or why not?

Scenario 1
A student borrows several quotes from the speech given by the President of a logging company. The student prints these quotes under photos of trees native to his hometown in his environmental brochure. By placing the quotes with the photos of endangered trees, the student has **transformed** the comments from their original purpose and used them to create a new insight. The copying would **probably** be permitted as a fair use.

Scenario 2
Mr. Joseph, a freelance media literacy entrepreneur and educator, has collected hundreds of beer and alcohol commercials and put them on a DVD. He has created lesson plans to accompany the ads, which are available as a separate document. He makes the DVD available for $199 to schools. He is considering working with a commercial publisher of educational materials to reach a wider audience. They would sell the DVD as a stand-alone (for $99) or with a book of lesson plans materials (for $149.99). What’s fair?

Scenario 3
A student taking a course in how to use a popular multimedia authoring program bases his work on popular movies. To illustrate a point about adventure classics he includes a video clip depicting the entire chariot racing scene from "Ben Hur."