Before starting the quiz of week 1, I watched the video "A fair(y) Use Tale" on http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CJn_jC4FNDo . For me as an exchange student from Germany, this video was really hard to understand. Instead of clear, short and descriptive sentences about copyright, several animated characters speak one word of a particular sentence, which makes the explanations very difficult to understand. This was really muddy and annoying.
Therefore I suggest, to learn about copyright and its implications it would be more helpful to have a look at either http://www.copyright.gov/ or http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright. Of course these websites are not trying to be as "funny" as the video, but instead they are much more informative and clearer to understand. It may be that local students did not have any problems to get the content of the video, but as said above, for me as a non-native English speaker this was quite difficult.
Finally I would like to shortly explain what copyright is about. The term copyright describes a set of rights, exclusively granted to the creator of different kinds of work, e.g. music, films, songs, etc. . These rights include the right to copy, distribute and adapt the created work. Of course there is a lot more to learn about "copyright", its implications and the several details of the law. Therefore I suggest interested readers to have a look at the proposed websites to get informed without having to deal with muddy explanations.
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