Leadership post: To Publish or To Present:

After considering whether to publish or to present my Action Research project on cyber bullying, I have decided to publish. When I initially read that a decision would have to quickly be made, my feeling was that publishing would be the appropriate platform for my work. After researching Dr. Bedard’s reference lists for conferences and publications, my feeling was confirmed.  Publishing my work in a National Journal would be career savvy, and personally meaningful. Moreover, I feel that my research in this area can reach a larger audience through publishing. I have found that school systems around the globe are dealing with incidences of cyber bullying.  Presenting my work at conferences would not begin to have the impact on educators, possibly for years to come, which could occur through publishing. I look forward to researching acceptable journals, in which to present my research.

Comments for Jessica Isla-MAC Week 1 Reading

Jessica, I love Danger Mouse too!!!!! Those tracks are amazing.  I totally agree that Danger Mouse does owe acknowledgement to the artists that he sampled the tracks from, but he interpreted the music creatively himself. Thus creating a new musical piece. Look at it this way, if I tell you a story or provide you with advice that helps you, and later in your life you share that information with someone else, am I owed a copyright? Absolutely not! If you re-told the advice, I would not expect to even be mentioned.  Maybe you would say, "Valencia Winston" once said.....but I highly doubt it. The advice that you share with others may be based on what I originally said, but the situation would be entirely different.  This is the truth about information. Everything that any of us have been told, or learned, or seen, has come from the experiences and others. Based on these laws, we all owe copyright royalties to everyone!

Jessica's Original Post:

Week 1: Blog Post #1 - "Readings" on Copyright Issues 
After looking at the videos on Copyright Issues, it was clear to me that I was very unaware of how large of a range the phrase encompasses.  When hearing the phrase “Copyright Issues,” I mainly think of written pieces of work, movies, or music.  It never really occurred to me that Dance would fall into that category.  I mean it does make sense that a piece of choreographed material would fall under that category, but I would never really think that "improv" would also fall under that category.  I do, however, fully understand the part where someone needs to have tangible proof (e.g. a video, document, recording, etc.) of the actual creation.  Just viewing these videos really opened my eyes as to how much effort is put into trying to claim something as your own.  I feel bad for those small few who create a masterpiece, but have no proof to uphold a copyright claim.

I also think that it's crazy if things get so serious that they are brought to court, that there are civil and federal offenses.  That definitely ups the stakes a bit, don't you think???  I wonder how many federal cases there are?  I knew that these issues were big, but I never imagined that it could be a federal offense.

 

In the documentary, Good Copy/Bad Copy, I was a bit taken aback by how nonchalant the DJ was when speaking about "sampling" tons of other artists' music and then mixing them together to call his own.  I guess you could say that it's a form of art, but at the same time... all he did was piece together parts of other people's work.  Is that really art?  By the way, I did have a chuckle to myself when the man talking about the song, "Get Off Your Ass and Jam," mentioned the part about the "learned judges" talking about such song titles with profanity like that.  Nonetheless, I do think it's interesting that the some people view such use as being "de minimis" (meaning that the law doesn't deal with something so insignificant), but in fact it's not.  It's illegal. (Side Note: DJ Danger Mouse's The Grey Album is AMAZING... I have it!)

NOTE: If you sample, you license.