Podcasting Legalities

I thought that many parts of this reading were a little confusing so I'm not to clear on all of it, but here are some things I learned from it:

1. You do not need permission if:

• material is not covered by copyright
• text that was covered by copyright is now in public domain
• material is a U.S. Government work
• if you are making "fair use" of material
• if material is under a Creative Commons Licensee

2. Ideas and Facts are not copyrighted.

3. "Federal copyright protection of sound recordings only attaches for recordings created after 1971" (http://wiki.creativecommons.org/Podcasting_Legal_Guide).

4. Videos may include many pieces that are also copyrighted, such as music. All copyrighted pieces of the video need to be checked/credited.

5. Many of the copyright issues that apply to podcasts also apply to blogs!

Important Podcasting Info

* Copyright! it's important to copyright your work to prevent misuse. It is unfair to put in such hard work and creativity in your project to have someone else use or abuse it without your consent. This should also be taken in consideration when using other people's work... their permissions are required if the material is copyrighted.

*Consent from interviewee! If you including an interview in your podcast, be sure to have a written consent from the person you are interviewing, it is also good to record the person's verbal consent to publish his/her responses.

*Trademark! be careful in including trademarks in your podcast, considering the nature of your podcast to prevent dilution.

* CClicensed Materials! you can save time and protect yourself by google or yahoo searching creative commons licensed content for your podcast or you can even go on the website for a list.

*All Rights Reserved! this is a way to mark your podcats before aring it, be sure to include that you 'reserve all rights' also.

Podcasting

I think it is important to remember that by making your own content you will be the safest from copyright infringement laws.

However, if you do choose to use already made content from the internet or elsewhere, here are some tips to keep you out of hot water:

1.) If you want to use a trademark, check the company's website that owns the trademark, and see if they post a trademark usage policy.

2.) Using Creative Commons licensed material or CC-licensed material will ensure you have the rights to use copyrighted materials.

3.) According to the Podcasting Legal Guide in CC Wiki, "In the Google Advanced Search page (http://www.google.com/advanced_search), by limiting your search according to “Usage Rights”, this will restrict your searching to find CC-licensed materials only."

4.) It also states, "The Yahoo! Advanced search (http://search.yahoo.com/search/options) page clearly illustrates how you can limit your search results to Creative Commons-licensed works."

5.) According to the site (at http://wiki.creativecommons.org/Podcasting_Legal_Guide#Trademark_Issues), "There are also various content aggregator sites that offer a large amount of Creative Commons licensed works. These are listed at this page: http://wiki.creativecommons.org/wiki/Content_Curators."

il/legal things about podcasting.

1.Copyright concent is relevant to podcasts because it applies to creative and expressive works
2. You need publicity rights concern.
3.Need to be careful about trademark laws and make sure not to go against them.
4.be minful of labor laws
5.Privacy laws are important.

Legalities

1. The main legal issues for us podcasters are related to copyright, publicity rights and trademark issues. Always assume that something is protected by copyright, we should always get permission from the copyright owner unless an exception or exclusion applies.

2. Publicity rights allow individuals to control how any version of their likeness is used for commercial purposes in public. You may need consent from the individual before using their likeness. I’m not sure if what we’re are doing is considered commercial purposes in the public forum but we should still be cautious.

3. Trademark law protects consumers from being deceived as to the source of goods and services, or the endorsement, sponsorship or affiliation of one good or service with another. Be sure not to claim that your service is affiliated with an entity that is trademarked. Basically don’t lie about any affiliation and you should avoid any concerns relating trademark law’s.

4. When is Permission not required:
You Are Using; A Fact, An Idea, A Theory Or Slogan, Title Or Short Phrase or works That Are In The Public Domain. Also any US Government Work or anything that has a Creative Commons-License or is “Podsafe” Content.
Creative Commons' licensed content is usaully “podsafe”.

**Making “Fair Use.**
You may make a “fair use” of a copyrighted text without obtaining permission of the copyright owner. A “fair use” is copying any protected material (texts, sounds, images, etc.) for a limited and “transformative” purpose, like criticizing, commenting, parodying, news reporting, teaching the copyrighted work. You are not violating any copyright laws if you are using something within the criteria of “fair use”, transformative is a bit wishy-washy so I would recommend getting more information on "fair use" offered in the article.

5. Two Misconceptions About Fair Use.
(i) Acknowledgement Is Not Enough.
(ii) Disclaimers Are Not Enough Either.
If your use of some material falls outside of the criteria for fair use it may not be enough to simply acknowledge that fact, you may need to get consent.

I think the best option for our class is to use material that has a Creative Commons license since that material is pre-cleared and is almost always safe to use. For any material that is not Creative Commons it would be best to at least contact the owner of the rights of said material.

Cool Experiment!

A really cool thing (possible podcast topic!)

Hey Guys!
My mom called me to tell me about a couple of students from MIT, and I thought I'd share it with you! These two undergrads, Justin Lee and Oliver Yeh created a near-space launch by building a weather ballon, for $150! They bought a camera from eBay, a BoostMobile phone with GPS from radio shack, a beer cooler and a balloon from the grocery store and launched it 92,000 feet into the atmosphere in Boston! They programmed the camera to take pictures every 5 seconds, and the weather balloon touched down in Worcester about 5 hours later. What they're excited about doing is streamlining the process to make the project something that middle- and high-schoolers can do in the classroom. One of the coolest thing about this is that these kids aren't even studying rocket science...one is a computer science major and the other is a mechanical engineer!

I think this would make a really cool podcast if anyone is looking for a neat idea.

Here is their website!

Check out their interview with CNN here:


~Sara :o)

Podcasting Legalities

1. Get consent from people that you interview in your podcast.

2. Sometimes, citing your sources isn't enough. If it is a copyrighted work, in some cases you may need permission to use it.

3. If the music you are using in your podcast is not directly related to your content (ex: you are not specifically talking about the music being played) then it is probably not considered "fair use".

4. For our purposes we most likely won't need permission to use a trademark. This is because we will not be using it for commercial value.

5. It would probably be benificial to us to see if we can find "Creative Commons" material to include in our podcasts before using copyrighted works, because with a CC work you do not need special permission to use it.

Flash development

hey guys,
if you want to learn to create the flash display on the mas website. reply and let me know. We will have to meet up as a group and work together. Also talk to Sara for more info. You can download the tutorials from http://www.adobe.com/support/flash/action_scripts/actionscript_tutorial/
Start to practice anytime you're free.

Assignment for Monday, 10/19/09

Hello everyone!

Here is the reading for next Monday. It's about the legal stuff behind podcasting. It shouldn't be too difficult to understand, but it's not the funnest thing you'll get to do this semester.

http://wiki.creativecommons.org/Podcasting_Legal_Guide

I would like you to post to the blog 5 things to keep in mind about the legalities behind podcasting. What can we take away from the readings to use in our own podcasting process?

For those of you who aren't doing podcasts for your project, think of this homework assignment as helping your classmates :o)

We're going to be discussing the reading on Monday, and I will be hearing from everyone, so make sure you have something to say!

Also, by the beginning of class on Monday please have Steps 1-3 done on the handout that we gave out today. Send it to me in a Word document via email, and print out a copy to bring to class.

That's all for now. Let me know if there are any issues!

~Sara

Podcast!

My poadcast topic is going to be about global warming. We hear about this a lot, but if you ask people on the street what global warming is, they probably wouldn't know what to answer. I want to explain , in easy words, the science and the importance behind this phenomenom.
I would probably do some animation or a sketch, trying to make it funny but meaningful.

Podcast Idea

Adobe Flash Player sounds like a fun tool to use in order to put on an animated skit of some sort to spread the word of science. I feel like we could make a short YouTube clip that would have a central narrator or character finding out information about science that is not commonly known, but information that would be valuable and of great interest to the public. I also thought we could maybe use Facebook in order to make a site of some sort that people could follow, update and comment on in order to keep the talk going about science.

After reading through some of the great podcast ideas from my peers I have thought of a few of my own. I really liked the "student survey" idea of making a short "vod"-cast (sorry sara) with clips that are very brief but give off a common impression. Maybe having a few scientifically-focused questions asked to people around campus that are commonly misunderstood by the public. Pose the question in the beginning of the scene, then show what everyones' two second answer is, and then show the truth, whatever that may be, and then show some reactions. I thought this might be good because if there are misconceptions about science, health, the swine flu, whatever, we could set the record straight while at the same time put it all in a vodcast to spread the word about science. I think its important to find information that would be shocking to most so they will be tempted to spread the word. It could potentially spread depending on what information we could dig up. It would be best to have something that most people believe as common knowledge or what would produce common assumptions that we can then prove wrong.

Podcast idea

My podcast topic is going to be about stem cells and its importance and dangers. I also wanted to create a flash slide for our website. I already discussed it with Sara. I might need some extra help if someone is interested.

Outreach Ideas

I have a couple of podcast ideas that i shared with Sara already. First one was she suggested me make an introductory MAS slide with flash. Also, We could improve the website significantly. Thirdly I wanted to personally shoot a video on the importance of stem cells. I have an idea also for the kids in case we visited the schools. The idea was to basically take them on a trip into the forest to learn about cool trees(names and origin), animals and more. I bet they will be thrilled to see and learn about animals they hear about in class when the teacher is teaching. At least I had a good experience going to Six Flags to learn about how physics was involved when building the park.

Assignment for Tuesday!

Hello Everyone!

Since you've all been doing such an awesome job, I'm not giving you anything to do over Columbus Day Weekend. All I ask is that you have a podcast topic picked out for Tuesday (we DO have class Tuesday because it's a Monday schedule) that you can start working on when we get back.

I hope you all have an awesome, restful long weekend!

~Sara

Contact Info for Possible Podcast Locations

I figured I'd use the extra time to look up some contact info. and post it to the blog so that we'd all have access. Here are some places I thought would be interesting:

New England Aquarium
Press Inquiries
617-973-5213

Franklin Park Zoo
PR Contact:
marlo marketing/communications
617-375-9700
mfogelman@marlomc.com

Woods Hole Science Center
Communications
Sue Barton
(508) 548-8700 x2241

Museum of Science Boston
http://www.mos.org/visitor_info/press_room
Sofiya Cabalquinto
Email: scabalquinto@mos.org
Phone: 617-589-0251

Got One!

I have a few ideas, but i think what i would like to do the most is a fallow up with class room visits. I would love to develop a live feed web cam hat with a class that we have vised to talk about the things we went over and to see how they are using it in every day life and knowledge. I was thinking that we could use a skype like program to talk and at the end of the chat possibly leave them with a new idea to think about or a small demonstration cooked up that can be done on camera.

Outreach

I would like for us to do a cool and simple experiment in class, we could record the experiment, all contribute to the editing and post the link on our facebook pages to kinda advertise MAS on a whole. I’m sure not a lot of students know about this… I really want to do an experiment!
As far as the pod cast… I’m still not sure of what I want to do. I’m more prone to doing something regarding health, being a public/community health major. I’m pretty sure something will come to mind. I do well in group work so a collaborative approach is also an option.

Outreach Ideas

I would really like my project to be geared towards kids. I think that doing a kid friendly project would be more fun, and I also think it is most important to reach out to kids. I would really like to make a game for kids. I think that an online game on the MAS site would be really beneficial to the MAS and for getting kids in to science. If getting a game on the site is too difficult, I think that an educational game we could give to teachers to use in classes would be good too. My ideas for games follow:

1. A game of mixing chemicals to make certain potions that could be used for different things. Ex: Mixing hydrogen and oxygen to hydrate your player, making a drink containing protein for energy, calcium for strength... use helium to fill a balloon to travel... finding all the ingredients you need in the game.

2. A game where you have certain pets and have to take care of them. (Similar to Zoo Tycoon which I played as a kid.)

3. A game where you play doctor and diagnose and treat patients. (Ex: Use thermometer to read temperature, high temperature = flu)

4. A game where you explore different types of land (rainforest, desert, grassy plains, etc) and collect pants for points.

5. A game where you use vectors and velocity to aim for targets to get points.


I am also still completely open to making a podcast, maybe still going along with some of the ideas we have for games. (Using internet sources to simulate the scenarios listed for the games and go through them as a podcast.)

Podcast Project

I have a few basic ideas for my project. I am really interested in learning to use the programs offered through the course but also am very familiar with Window's Movie Maker. I made a project in my Relationships class in high school using this program and I was very pleased with it. I will most likely try to incorporate nature, maybe taking footage of a guided trail I'm attending with the Bio club. I also would like to capture some animal behavior in order to incorporate my interests with the science outreach idea.