Name Israel baltazar
Period 1st
Date 1-22-14
Exam for Understanding Rights and Responsibilities of
Digital Photography and Video on campus
and citizen journalism
1. Describe the main purpose for using iDevices during school hours?
theirs no purpose unless if asked to.
2. How is intent important in taking and publishing photographs and video?
intent is important because it shows your passion and interest you have for the subject.
3. Can intent be a legal defense for libel?
It depends because some of the photographs may be explicit or controversial
4. Explain how copyright laws protect a creator of work.
Go to http://www.copyrightkids.org/ and read Copyright Basics & FAQS to explain how “Fair Use” applies to education process.
Copyright laws protect all material used such as Disney have all copyrights for star wars. It applies to education by how students cant plagiarize if no rights are reserved.
5. Go to http://us.creativecommons.org/ . Read About and Public Domain links and describe what you see and understand about this new concept about intellectual property.
The concept is that any document is public and has no copyrights or has expired copyrights.
6. Why is it important to honestly label the time and place of photographs for publication?
Its important because questions will be raised if you don't place the time and area you took the picture they may think its fake.
7. What should someone use to label a photograph that has been altered by merging two or more images into one photograph or by extensive enhancement by filters and other means?
It should be labeled as a compilation of the photos taken kind of like a collage.
8. Explain how making photograph portrait “selfies” fulfill or not fulfill the intent of Socrates when he said “An unexamined life is not worth living.”
Selfies do not fulfill Socrates quote because selfies don't show anything that's going on the persons life.
