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Originally Posted by wilsonmw04
I'm sorry, when I said "FIRST" I meant "FIRST teams." As Mentors and Coaches it is our job to guide our students in the proper use of tools and information, is it not? We teach our students how to use power tools, programing languages, and other 'tools' properly. Most teams also have great business plans and are run in the model as a small corporation. I just find it troubling that we are not teaching our kids the appropriate use of the internet. We work and play under the banner of "gracious professionalism" in 'real life,' but I think we are dropping the ball when it comes to preparing our students to be good virtual citizens. Could you imagine what would happen to a small company that does what most FIRST teams do?
PS: even in education you cannot use anything anyway you want. There are specific rules for using copyrighted materials. For example: you may only use 10% or 30 seconds (whichever is smaller) of a single piece of music. Using an entire AC/DC song is not fair use even for educational purposes.
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Intellectual Property laws are very misunderstood by the public and being a graphic artist (unofficially) it is a big deal to me and I spend alot of time on DA where it is a HUGE deal as I have alot of friends whos art is repeatedly stolen and posted by teens who's only crime is overzealous appreciation of the work without realizing that they needed to ask permission to post it in the first place.
Even I'm guilty of it. One of my most
recent works I posted has a background from a photo i found online and re filtered via Photoshop but there's no way I can ever sell it since I used someone else's work to enhance it.