Evaluating Websites and Learning about Copyright and Fair Use
Copyright and Fair Use
For the week, we learned about how important copyright and fair use can be when it comes to using images or anything owned by someone on the internet. There's a fine line that shouldn't be crossed, but scenarios where you can very well have the right to use someone else's work if it fall under "Fair Use".
For this assignment, we had to pick a website and evaluate it based on its intent, audience and goal. Following it up with a multiple choice questionnaire about its uses and overall experience on the website.
Here is the website I chose:
Whether something falls under copyright infringement or under fair use is a really touchy subject that can get stretched to very far lengths depending on how much they believe in one or the other. With how advanced and free it is to post your own work, it's important to know your rights as an owner and your rights as a user of one's work.
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