Applying Fair Use to New Technologies, this was an interesting article to look over for this week. I was a little irritated while reading because of the requirements and guidelines that teachers have to look over and make sure they do not break to use they material that multimedia companies make. Applying Fair Use to New Technologies, this was an interesting article to look over for this week. I was a little irritated while reading because of the requirements and guidelines that teachers have to look over and make sure they do not break to use they material that multimedia companies make. Some of the guidelines are not allowing the teacher to use more than this amount or you can use this or that. I believe that if a teacher is using it to educate the students why not allow them to use the material. I do understand that you do need to give credit where it is needed but some of the companies are creating these projects to sell them to the school and make a profit, not to necessarily benefit the children. 

As I said before I do believe in giving credit where it is needed. But what I do not get is that many of the teachers no have to create something completely from scratch and that is hard to do. If you bounce an idea off of something else then it is plagiarizing. The school system wants the teachers to shake things up so that kids are learning new and interesting ideas but we can’t give the new teachers credit because someone has already created it. I think that the companies that are creating the software and multimedia projects are under the impression that they are doing it for the improvement of the students when in reality they are making every thing about money. Many of the companies that supply project or software to school systems are making a ton of money. I think that the teachers should be allowed to use the products and tweak it a little to put their own little spin on it and obviously credit the makers for helping with the ideas. 

-Landon