Posted by Jenifer Leiding Rieck on Feb 24, 2015; 12:29am
URL: https://nabble.aealearningonline.org/POST-4-Copyright-tp535p622.html

I still feel that educators in general have overused the copyright privileges just because we are in a school setting.  Because of the pace of instruction and the amount of materials available, I feel it is possibly worse.  When I judge for solo contest or other music contests gone are the days where musicians come in with originals except when forced to in high school.  Copies abound.  The copies are then left with the students or packed up for use next year.  Technically, they are supposed to be destroyed from my era.  BUT, the budget cuts of the past two decades restrict teachers from following this and the time committment needed to make the extra copies for use in the classroom.  When I first started teacher, copies were done at the copyshop by a staff member, you turned in an order and got back the product, then it was "do it yourself" on a prep time, then it was "do it yourself" afterschool or before, then it was take it to Kinkos and pay for it yourself.  The small erosion of support within the classrooms for needed day to day items......The liberal use of downloads from ITunes and copied songs is also a concern.  I don't think students stop to consider that many people's livelyhood depends on the pay they receive from selling their music.  If I am performing in a symphony orchestra, the audience is not supposed to hold up their cell phone recording and then post on YouTube.  I just have concerns we are all not thinking before using the variety of online resources that we have now in comparison to years ago.  The flip side is that abuse of copyrighted materials and not documenting sources is in my opinion, worse and yet we have such a wealth to draw from, we don't always appreciate where we started out.