First of all, I gained a considerable amount of insight into copyright laws and what constitutes material that is in the public domain. When Bettina gave us this project my first thought was that it would be incredibly easy, but I couldn't have been more wrong. This was one of the most difficult projects I have ever done, and a lot of that difficulty came from the fact that copyright laws can present a major problem to students and researchers who are trying to use online materials for their work. I also gained valuable experience from contacting a librarian and asking for permission to use their resources.
The point of this project is to teach us about copyright laws; between Bettina's media lit class and now tech and human comm I am learning a TON about freedom. I'm learning a lot about how the Internet came out with such promising opportunities in terms of freedom and creativity, and now it seems that some of those freedoms are gradually disappearing as commercialization is taking over. This project complemented our mashup project in an interesting way-- we started by bending the rules and relying on Fair Use for the mashup, and here we were doing everything by the book, making sure not to miss anything.
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