1. I gained a lot from this experience. The first thing being that I don't want to go into any business that does this for a living. Copyright is a lot more complicated than I thought it was but I learned the differences of public domain, commons, modified copyright, and others. It was very difficult to find photos that I could use, even for just noncommercial and educational purposes. I have a new found disliking toward Google images and other search engines that portray pictures only for commercial use. Sites get money when people click on their links and permission to use those photos isn't given unless you contact the author. I also learned that librarians really do like to help you. And despite mishaps with other people in the class, they were very nice to me!
2. To me, the point of this project is to explore the public domain and to know that everyone tries to own everything. Our world is turning into a commercial place and we have little control over it. We have access to things today that we don't have permission to use anywhere we like. Copyright laws are ridiculous and they make it so nobody can use copyrighted things for a very long time. When using any images, video, or other media that you didn't create from scratch, you have to be aware of copyright laws and what is or isn't in the public domain. Otherwise, it could cost you. UNLESS! You use it under Fair Use. But, you have to be careful with that one. There ARE restrictions. This assignment has opened my eyes and also slightly taken my vision away from large commercial corporations.
3. I did my project on "Cooking and Medicine in Early America". I took research from articles and books online written by Professor Trudy Eden at the University of Northern Iowa. I quickly realized that the beliefs about food and medicine of early Americans were completely twisted because of lack of resources and knowledge that we have today. They didn't have the technology to figure out exactly how digestion works and they didn't know that eating foods in a certain order wouldn't prevent them from getting sick. I found images to compliment my research and I wrote captions that followed the article. It tells about early Americans' beliefs of food and how they thought that "medicine" could cure them of any health problem they could imagine.
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