Today's update is about copyright.  

On its simplest level, we all know you cannot use someone else’s work without giving them credit.  

We practice information ethics in our school work by using NoodleTools, etc...

Here is something to consider.  

Copyright does not protect ideas.  

If it did, nothing new would ever be created, right? 

There are guidelines that protect original work created from an idea, but these guidelines allow for the idea, the work, to be used by others.  

This is called transformative use.  

Transformative uses are those that add something new, with a further purpose or different character, and do not substitute for the original use of the work. Hence, you give credit, but you create something new.

Take for instance this story reported yesterday via NPR.  

It promotes the pop-up show SGN.  

Talk about taking an idea and making it better.  

(HIGHLY RECOMMENDED TO WATCH).

Look for elements of effective communication, journalistic applications, media design, media production, references to American History, composition, performing arts, tongue-in-cheek copyright references AND a whole lot MORE.