Study: Students Don't Grasp Copyright Rules
A new report from American University's Center for Social Media reveals an "astonishing amount" of confusion by college students over how to handle copyright law when creating user-generated content. The study's co-author Pat Aufderheide said that respondents showed a "remarkable desire to comply with whatever they thought copyright might require of them."
More than half of those polled said they combined their own videography with recorded music (52 percent); nearly as many put together moving slide-shows with photos of family and friends (44 percent); and only 20 percent excerpted material from a television show or movie, according to the report.
The creators' motivation is personal and social. The study found: "They are driven in part by the desire to create and maintain their personal identity through location of themselves in a social network. Part of the meaning that fuels their social network is shared experience of popular culture."
Read the full report here. On a related note, AU's Washington College of Law hosted a panel discussion on copyright law and user-generated content on Tuesday. Read all about it in Technology Daily's PM edition.
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