The most important lessons about digital literacy include Copyright, Fair use, and Personal safety.
Copyright is the ownership of an item to someone. When someone creates something of their own, they immediately become the copyright owner. Maybe someone decided to copy CD’s and give them to their friends. They can’t do that because when you buy CD’s at the store, the money goes towards the artist, but copying them is different from buying them. You can really only make copied CD’s if it follows the guidelines of fair use.
Fair use makes an exception to taking copyrighted things. If someone took a music video from the internet, and reposted it on their own as a parody (putting new words in a song) that’s okay because they changed the video and made it their own.
Exceptions of fair use include…
- Commercial uses or Educational non profit purposes
- using small parts of videos, not the whole thing - or parodies
Personal safety is about protecting yourself on the internet.
If a someone has a public social media account, and its public, anyone can see it and take their pictures. Turning on privacy settings stops people from being able to access your account, steal your identity, or take personal pictures or information.
"Everyone Knows Your Name - Online Safety Commercial." YouTube. YouTube. Web. 13 Nov. 2014.
