Sunday, September 16, 2007

Copyright A Fair(y) Use Tale

As I got to my Mass communication class, on September 12, 2007, I noticed that it had already started. The class was watching a short film on the overhead projector. I looked at my watch and saw that I wasn't late but ten minutes early. So why would the class have already started? Well, it turns out that a student in the class had told the professor the wrong time of when the class started. A simple mistake, it doesn't matter, it's over with. The more important thing was the film that they were watching, Copyright A Fair(y) Use Tale. This ten minute clip is all about the copyright law and fair use. You would think that a video like this would be pretty boring. But, indeed it wasn't. It was not you normal educational video, that bores you to death. This video is made up off hundreds of clips from Disney Videos. The makers of this video have selected small clips of 1-3 words and put them together so that they make a story. A wonderful magical story about copyright. The only problem is, is that you have to pay close attention or else you won't catch what the characters are saying because the clips are very short and quick.

The Following is the link to the video. Watch it. It will be the most entertaining educational video you have ever seen. Come on, it's Disney. Everyone loves Disney!

http://youtube.com/watch?v=pUPsfYJONrU

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