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This week's Wimba was an review of all the videos that I watched last week about copyright.  I did spend time watching everything that was available.

Things like piracy in Sweden really bothered me.  I grew up where you did not steal someone else's work.  period.  I was surprised that the Swedes don't think that taking our movies and reselling them was wrong.  The Russians were not surprising as I knew that piracy was a big thing in Russia.

Was I able to answer all of the questions that JB asked?  Yes, except for the stuff on Fair Use and Creative Commons, but I remembered all the rest of them.  ( I forgot that Fair use was a legal defensible position) and the four different types of symbols.

Since I am not teaching, I am working to use my own things, but I see in my children the fact that they don't think that piracy is wrong.  (My daughter got in trouble with her cable company because she was pirating movies.)  I don't know where they got the idea that pirating movies is ok. 

I had been a media specialist, so a lot of the copyright issues were not new.  However, Creative Commons is new to me.  I usually either use my own creations or remember to ask permission.  There was one time when I asked permission of a musician to use his work and he did not have a problem with it.

One also has to remember that copyright does not allow a person to continually use the same copyrighted material over and over again.  That usually means that if you use a film this year, you not necessarily can use it again next year.  Having licenses for films was usually in the domain of the media specialist.

I apologize if some of this sounds familiar from last week.  I don't have it copyrighted so I tend to repeat myself.