Copyright and Fair Use LR

I completely disagreed with quiz number nineteen. Yearbooks are not intended to be educational or instructional, so why does it matter if the students decide to take the top ten songs and incorporate them into the dvd? Yearbooks serve the purpose of allowing the students to reflect upon their times and memories in school. Students' personalities, characteristics, likes and dislikes have been a major influence and part of their education, so they should be able to creatively depict these aspects into their reflections.

If the students ensure that the songs are properly cited at the end of the dvd, then how could it possibly be illegal or be a copyright violation? It should not matter whether or not the purpose of the yearbook dvd is analyzing certain songs from students' time eras. The top ten songs are music that played throughout their academic years. The songs bring up memories from classes, activities, clubs, team events, etc. Musical learners are apt to remember more if they listen to this music as they watch the yearbook dvd. Students will remember that one time that their crazy science teacher made them create a rap to describe the process of photosynthesis. The use of music and songs on a dvd yearbook is not intended to violate copyright laws. Using the top ten songs is just the way the students are reflecting and and remembering their experiences in school. We should never limit the ways in which students reflect, especially when it comes to such an easy way to give credit to a source, such as citing music.

However, if the question mentioned that the students were selling this dvd, then I would say that they were definitely violating copyrights and fair use. If anybody is going to be selling a dvd yearbook with music on it, then they should receive permission to put the music on it.